WooooHooo!

I'm sorry I usually won't have a picture. Anyway, today was really fun for me. Today they started filling up our pool (but it takes 22 hours so it is filling as I type). It wasn't completely filled but our family proved that a pool doesn't need 40,000 gallons of water to make us happy.
So we swam, jumped, fought, and hung out in a half filled pool. We supposed we should make the best of it because it would be the only time we would be able walk in the deep end. My mom also got a ton of plants to place around the pool. The flooring is what they call pebble tech. They're real pebbles cemented together. The pebble tech gives the water a natural color so it looks like a mucky pond but the water's clean.

Ooo! Ouch!

I'm sorry I don't have a picture but I have a story. Last week my entire family (on my mom's side) had a family campout. We intended to stay for five days but there was an unfortunate turn in events. On our third day my mom gave me the baby and said that she and dad would be taking a quick ride on our brand new ATV. Along the way my mom decided to get of the quad to let my dad have more freedom. The next moment he was falling down a blind hill and landed head first on a rock; a pointy rock. My mother sent my cousins (who happened to be with them) back to camp to get help. When my cousins arrived at camp she was teary-eyed and we had a truck and an Arctic Cat ranger on their way in a few seconds flat. When they got there they wrapped his head and got him to our van. My uncles escorted him t Strawberry (Arizona) where an ambulance met them there. They said that Payson wouldn't do anything for him so they flew him to Pheonix where he was stitched up put in a neck brace. He's got a nasty cut on his head and he fractured his neck but at least he's alive and walking. He has to where a neck brace for three months but it only gets better each day. A big bummer is that we are going to finish our pool in a few days and he won't be able to swim. But at least we're all happy!

The Pink Jeep Tour in Sedona

We had a great time in Sedona we all got on a pink jeep and the driver took us down Broken-Arrow Trail. He made sure he didn't miss any good bumps. Afterwards we roamed down the street shopping and eating lunch. Yessir we sure had a lot of freedom!

Sunset Crater

After we finished with Wapatki, we went to see Sunset Crater. I enjoyed my solo hike along the trail. I even saw a few sputter cones which would spew lava, similar to volcanoes.

Wapatki National Monument

The day after we visited the Grand Canyon, we go to see the Wapatki National Monument. I'm standing in front of an ancient Indian community.

Here, I learned that the men would build the homes but the women are in charge of repairing and preserving it.

The Grand Canyon

After IMAX is the Grand Canyon! It is extremely beautiful. We even got a three hour ranger tour. I learned that the rangers consider the rock squirell to be the most dangerous animal in the Grand Canyon!

Jr. History Tour

My name is Tanner. I enjoy history and math and someday I want to become an Arizona State Representative. Just three days ago I went on my schools Jr. History Tour. It was amazing! First stop was the IMAX a few miles away from the Grand Canyon. Outside of the IMAX is a replica of the boats that John Wesley Powell used on his exploration through the Grand Canyon.