Road Trip 2008

This years road trip took us from 100 degree weather in south Utah, to snow in Flagstaff! Jon and I headed to Gooseberry Mesa, UT with 6 other friends for some great mountain biking and camping. This was the first official camping trip of the year, and Maverick's first experience in the wilderness! We spent four days on the mesa.


Out on the first hike of the week


Maverick was definitely born for the outdoors! He did great at camp, out with the bikes, in the tent at night, and out on hikes.








The mornings and evenings were filled with riding






In the hot afternoons, we headed down to Springdale (right outside of Zion national park) and went to this big park right on the river. We jumped in the river and played with the dogs. Great way to escape from the biting gnats!


Family picture on the Mesa. The sunsets were great!

After all our friends left to go home, Jon and I continued our journey. We headed to the north rim of the grand canyon off a tip from a friend in Utah. It was incredible! We camped on the Rainbow Rim trail, right on the edge of the Grand Canyon. The views were amazing and the trail was incredible for both riding and hiking.




Sunset on the rim



Views on our hike along the Rainbow Rim trail


Home Sweet Home


Another beautiful evening

On our last day at the Grand Canyon, this crazy storm came through and it started to SNOW! We headed to Flagstaff to meet Jon's family for the annual Kearley Camping trip. Because of the weather, we ended up going to Prescott to Jon's grandparents house and then on to Skull Valley for the camping trip. It poured rain and hail throughout the weekend and then finally cleared up on Sunday so we could get some dirt biking in. However, even though the sun came out, my camera did not. I managed to not get a single picture of the family camping trip, except these last two.



We had a wonderful trip and are already looking forward to the next one. Hopefully Maverick isn't still too mad at us for bringing him home to the concrete jungle!

A Little Bit of Catch Up

April was a busy month, here are a few things that happened around the Kearley household...


Maverick is growing up quite nicely. He loves being outside! He's the best dog... so much fun!


My friend Alissa was in town from up north, so the 7 of us girls went to dinner at Javiers for some girl time. And then a few of us got together for a picnic at the Orange circle with the kids. All the girls kids are so adorable. It's fun to see them all as moms!


My mom, sister and I also surprised my dad with a small retirement party. He kept telling us that he didn't want anything, but you can't pass up a chance to celebrate not working anymore! We took him wine tasting in an excursion limo. He was shocked. My sister even flew in as a surprise. It was great!

Lot's more going on, more to come soon.

Camping Season

Let the season begin! Jon and I leave tomorrow morning for a 10 day camping trip! We are so excited! We will start our trip on the Gooseberry Mesa in south Utah. There are 6 other of our friends joining us on this part of our trip for some killer mountain biking. Then Jon and I will head to Sedona, AZ for a couple days of hiking and exploring. We will finish our trip in Flagstaff with Jon's extended family for the annual Kearley Camping trip. Should be a great time. This will be Maverick's first camping trip! Should be interesting having a dog in our tent the whole time! I will have lots of pictures to put up, and hopefully I will have time to update this blog for the past month that I've missed! Don't you love summer? We'll be back on Memorial Day! Happy summer!