Fossil Creek

On Tuesday, we drove to Fossil Creek.  Honestly I didn't even know these places existed in Arizona.

Such a fun group!  We have never gone on a trip with these two families before but I am thinking there will be more trips with them in our future.

We hiked about 1/2 mile to a cool little spot where we camped out for several hours.

The water is crystal clear here.  We all joked that this place should be called "Clear Creek," not Fossil Creek.

The water is so clear you can snorkel.  We all had a great time snorkeling.  Not that there was cool colored fish or anything.  But there were lots of fish so that was fun!  The boys enjoyed catching fish in the nets, looking at them and then letting them go.

The water was a little crisp!

Ella loved going out into the waterfall run off and having it push her down stream.

Kids enjoyed jumping from this small water fall.  All us moms also jumped from here.  Then of course Ella wanted me to hold her and jump from it as well.

This is Logan caught mid air!

Ella and Jayne Peterson

These two were so cute together and had a great time playing.  Jayne is exactly one year older than Ella.

Craziest thing happened....

while we were chilling at this spot Kiersten recognized two boys who were in her EFY company this year.  Not only that, but the one on the right was her C.O.W. (crush of the week)., Decker.  It was so random that we would run into them in this situation.  Kiersten had fun visiting with them.  

She was pretty giddy after that.  It was cute!  Kiersten said, "Wow I didn't know Decker had a sixpack.  He had his shirt on the whole time at EFY!  That was a nice surprise!"

I'd hope he kept his shirt on at EFY.  It was a fun surprise to run into them.  

Justin didn't get in the water much today.  He kind of just vegged out on the bank most of the time.  He was super helpful though and watched Tamra's baby Cruz, so then both her and Jed could enjoy the water.  

The kids all had a grand time riding tubes down the creek and down some waterfalls.  What adventures they came back and told us about.  I just have to hold my breathe and say a prayer, then let the kids run off and be kids!

I sure love this family of mine!

We love the Hughes too!  Thanks for planning and including us on such a fun trip!  It was wonderful!

We hiked up another 1/2 mile to the large waterfall.  It was gorgeous!!!

Where the guy in the blue shorts is standing, Kiersten, Hunter and ME jumped off from there.  It was scary but exhilarating!

The kids all had so much fun cliff jumping!  It started to rain cats and dogs as we hiked back to the parking lot.  Kind of fun, kind of annoying.  The sky cleared up fast though.  And we were able to find one more cliff to jump from.  So many awesome spots at Fossil Creek!  It's a beautiful place!

This spot was back by the parking lot.  Of course we had to get a few more jumps in.  Kiersten, Hunter, Logan, Grant all jumped from this spot.  Okay so did I......but Jed pressured me.  Just kidding it didn't take much convincing for me to want to jump again!  Super Fun!

We ending the day by driving in to Camp Verde and having dinner at La Fonda's Mexican Restaurant.  It was yummy and the company was great!

Had such a fabulous day!