Well, we started our our summer this year with vacation.  The last time just our family went on vacation with no one else our middle child (Ben) was 18 months old...so, as you can tell, this was a very much needed "just us" vacation!

This was the first view we saw of the Grand Canyon!  Brian got a little spiritual on us and shed some tears!

This was one of the few times we let the kids look over, okay, so I was being a bit scared!

This one showed the beautiful Arizona sky over the canyon!

Our little Hannah, having a blast!

Ben and Zachary (I think one second before this they were complaining about being hot and this was mid May!)

This is 3/4 of us at the end of the day (dad is behind the camera).  You really can't tell by the picture, but boy did we have a tourist tan! 

We were finishing up the day and were going back to the ranger station so the kids could get their Junior Ranger badges and literally Brian almost walked on top of this elk!  You can tell this animal is used to cars and humans, it just ate until it was done and moved on!

This is pictures of the sun setting on the canyon, it really does change the colors of it!

This was our final sight of the canyon!  It really is an amazing work of God!

This is where it ended

and this is where we started!