red dirt.

Okay, so we live in Utah now, we decided it was high time to do a little exploring!

Off to Moab for the long weekend...

Our first hike choice in Arches National Park had to be Delicate Arch... after all, we see it all the time on Utah license plates!

The hike had a few tricky spots and Kimbel was sure that we would NEVER get there, but alas, we did!! And it was well worth the sweat!

Saturday evening we decided to do the Canyonlands by night boat tour.

Along with about 100 senior citizens (they were really sweet, Madison was just bummed there weren't any cute boys within about 50 years of her age, except of course, Braden!)

To impress all the grandpa's of cute boys - Madison was just as silly as ever... did I mention we love having a teenager!

The tour didn't make such an impression on Braden...

In fact, he only ate a roll at the dutch-oven dinner and fell asleep as soon as we got on the boat. That was one expensive dinner roll!

Day two we headed back to the Arches after sitting behind our Canyonlands tour guide at church. (Moab is a small town!)

We did a couple more fun hikes and saw some more arches.

It really is an amazing National Park. very cool.

Group hug... this was after Madison was speaking in her best Brit accent acting like our foreign exchange student.. did I mention there was never a dull moment?

Kimbel's name sake...

This was on one of our favorite hikes.. to the Sand Dune Arch. Very fun hike back in through a canyon into lots of soft, red sand.

We couldn't keep our toes out of it!

We had such a great time.. we will definitely head back again.

Great weekend..

Just one more "stop" before home... tee hee

(Kelly's first speeding ticket... yes! first in his life!)

I had to get a pic... it really was pretty funny!

(love you, K)