Moab

Allie started a 3 week track break at school and during her first week off we made our way down to Southern Utah.  Blake was running the Canyonlads half marathon in Moab so we headed down to support him and play in Arches National Park.  On our way down to Moab we stopped off in Highland to watch our cute niece perform in her school play-Wizard of Oz.  We crashed at Blake's brother's house our first night and made our way down to Moab the next morning.

Jane staring as tin-man



The main casting crew- I seriously couldn't believe these kids were 5th and 6th graders.  They did an amazing job!!!

Jane and Allie 

Thursday afternoon we arrived in Moab and made our way into Arches National Park.

Blake and Allie with Balance Rock in the background

Blake and Allie made their way up to the North and South Window.   I stayed back with the little ones who were asleep in the car!

Allie under North Window Arch

Our friends the Galloways finally arrived late Thursday night; Friday morning we headed up to Slickrock.  The kids that were able to rode the 2 mile practice course

Blake took Allie on the course and according to Blake she did awesome

We headed back to the condo to grab lunch and re-energize.  Later on we came back to Slickrock to ride some more

We went climbing with the younger kids during the afternoon while the older kids rode bikes



Saturday the big day had arrived....Canyonlads Half Marathon

The kids cheered everyone on anticipating the arrival of their dads.  They kept looking at the shoes of the runners waiting to see green shoes for Blake and bright color orange for Jason

We finally saw Blake come by at 1:45.  Considering Blake didn't train a day for the marathon he did awesome

Blake felt like crap after the race and laid on the ground for quite some time.  Sophie couldn't figure out what he was doing and why he wouldn't get up

After the boys had recovered we headed back into Arches

Sophie making her way into Sandunes Arch

There was a place you could scale the wall to get on top of Sandunes Arch....Allie of course wanted to head up with the big kids and dads

The girls loved playing in the sand and Sophie enjoyed making Sand Angels

After the sand dunes we hiked into Landscape Arch

The final stop was Double Arch.  What a fun time we had warming up in Moab!