The second half of our California trip was up North to visit Joel's family. They currently have 4 dogs and Cassidy was TERRIFIED. She would scream bloody murder and climb anything nearby to get away from them. That night, Bella, the little chihuahua, climbed on her while she was sleeping and licked her face. The next day we told her the story and how much Bella loves her. So she started coming around:
We went to Joel's grandparents' cabin, which is so cute!
We went to Joel's grandparents' cabin, which is so cute!That day we did a pretty easy hike to this dam.
Cassidy stayed here with grandma Kieper while I went out on...
this...
and nearly fell to my death.Okay okay, my pose looks way fake. Sorry.
The next day we went on the HIKE OF DEATH. Really. Ethan was in the backpack and still almost died. There was this waterfall and pond-ish area of the stream at the top of the hike and Joel's dad and brother jumped in. Then, after much convincing, Joel jumped in too. The water was practically arctic and so Joel had to hug us to share the love.
Oh, and he sunk his watch.
Ethan was very happy to get out of the hiking backpack.
He was a royal grump that day.
Cassidy tried really hard to be a trooper during the hike. But, she enjoyed the occasional shoulder ride from any volunteers. This time it was Grandpa Kieper:
It was SOO hot on the hike back down, so I dipped my head in to cool off.
Ethan was really warm and sweaty, so we dipped him, too:)
Somehow I never got a picture of all of us; our camera does horrible indoor and night pic's because the flash is broken. But it was nice to see Joel's California family, since we have only seen them on rare occasion since we got married. Cassidy loves her grandparents and gave them all hugs goodbye. 
The drive home was SO horrible that I have since vowed NEVER to drive over 6 hours with children in tow, EVER again! We had toys, treats, movies, bottles, blankets, surprise presents, and still we had to stop SO much just to calm baby Ethan down. He was a crank and 1/2! We were in Wendover around 8:00 p.m. and he would NOT calm down so we had to drive around until we found a park for him to be let loose in for a while. We arrived home 12:30 a.m. Sunday morning and had 9:00 church teaching Nursery. It was tiring, to say the least.
Cassidy tried really hard to be a trooper during the hike. But, she enjoyed the occasional shoulder ride from any volunteers. This time it was Grandpa Kieper:
It was SOO hot on the hike back down, so I dipped my head in to cool off.
Ethan was really warm and sweaty, so we dipped him, too:)
Somehow I never got a picture of all of us; our camera does horrible indoor and night pic's because the flash is broken. But it was nice to see Joel's California family, since we have only seen them on rare occasion since we got married. Cassidy loves her grandparents and gave them all hugs goodbye. Since we were already in the mountains at the cabin, we decided to go up and over the mountain to go home to Utah. (Okay, it was really mapquest that decided for us). Anyway, I am not sure at what elevation we started, but we knew we were getting high up when we saw SNOW in California. There was one sign we saw that said "Caution: 26% grade." I have never even heard of such a steep slope! We climbed all the way to 9726 feet, but I missed taking a picture of that sign.
The drive home was SO horrible that I have since vowed NEVER to drive over 6 hours with children in tow, EVER again! We had toys, treats, movies, bottles, blankets, surprise presents, and still we had to stop SO much just to calm baby Ethan down. He was a crank and 1/2! We were in Wendover around 8:00 p.m. and he would NOT calm down so we had to drive around until we found a park for him to be let loose in for a while. We arrived home 12:30 a.m. Sunday morning and had 9:00 church teaching Nursery. It was tiring, to say the least. Not to take anything away from the trip, though...it was a blast.
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