The Nolden Family

Picnic at Lloyd’s Lake…

Above: This is a man-made lake above Monticello. We had a picnic and then took the kids down to the water to play around.

Above: The mud was a “little” deep.

Above: Ashley, “Help!”

Above: I had no idea Frank was such a good rock skipper. He had one that skipped like 12 times before it went under. He was teaching the kids how to do it.

The Trip Home…

Above: We had 3 more grueling days of driving to get home. We stopped in Amarillo, Texas, and Little Rock, Arkansas. The kids loved being able to swim at the hotel at the end of the day.

Liz was in Vegas already, so we only had 5 kids in the car on the way back…it is so weird when just one is missing.

Above: I loved the huge windmill arrays that we saw along the way. We saw one of the blades for these windmills being shipped by truck in Cortez. It was HUGE!!! It was so huge the guy couldn’t make the turn in town and had stopped traffic. We also got a close up look at one on a truck stopped in Monticello….you can’t tell how big they are from a distant view.

Home at Last…

Trips are so rejuvenating! But it is always GREAT to get back home and sleep in your own bed and have access to all of your “stuff.” We were so happy to be home…even though it seems that the heat and humidity had been cranked up in a major way while we were gone.