Hotel Hardy

A huge thank you to Suzie and Steve for letting us crash at Hotel Hardy. We had a great time playing with cousins (you should've seen how excited they both got while I was going through our pictures!) and just hanging out in general. We definitely need to do this more often!




On our last morning in Vegas we drove over to the Pawn Shop that has it's own show on the History Channel. It was Paul's only request that he wanted to take a picture with Chumley. How could I refuse?

Paul and Chumley. We are lucky we caught him. We wandered around in the shop for a few minutes looking around to see if we could find him. Someone said they saw him out in the parking lot so we went out to look around. And we saw nothing. Just a few seconds later, out walks Chumley. He got stopped by another family wanting to take a picture with him and we just slipped right in and took a picture. Two seconds later he got into a van and drove off.

Lake Mead

After Hoover Dam, we drove over to Lake Mead to swim and hang out for a while. It was hot, hot, hot and very windy. The shade tent blew over and hit a wave runner and some guys Escalade (oops!). But we all had a great time.



The cherry red Hummer. Its' novelty wore off after about 2 days. It was a pain to park, not very aerodynamic, and one of the tires had a slow leak so we had to fill it up every few days. We can now take the Hummer off of our list of luxury cars we'd want to rent.

Playin' in the dirt.


I love this picture of Kendyl. There's a rock she's standing on that makes her look like she could walk on water. Then Steve told her to strike the Karate kid pose. Awesome!

Tanner and Ryder's favorite part was throwing rocks in the water. The hardest part was getting them to throw rocks away from other people instead of at them.

Hoover Dam

Hoover Dam was one of our stops on the Judson Family Vacation this summer. I had been when I was 7 or 8 so I didn't remember much other than the smart mouthed guy who made all the "Dam" jokes during the tour.

Sweet Baby Cope

We had a great time on our extended vacation. Then on Saturday the 21st I had some complications and we delivered Baby Cope at 17 weeks. We were blessed beyond measure to have him in Utah where we were had our parents there to support us. We truly appreciate the prayers expressed on our behalf. We have felt loved beyond measure, especially now that we have returned home and are away from our family once again. We will forever miss our sweet baby Cope and know we'll be together again someday.