...down by the river

Brett and I we went canoing down the Salt River with my family. I went with my family on Memorial Day but Brett didn't go so I thought it would be fun to go again with him too. We decided to go on Saturday instead of Monday, Labor Day, because that's when all the drunk people go tubing down the river. It was perfect! The weather was great and we saw a lot of really cool animals.

This is a picture right before we got in the boats. Brett, my brother Spencer and his girlfriend Cristina, my dad, my sister Alison and her husband Mike.

Here is a calm part of the river. I didn't take any pics of the rapids because I was busy paddling so we wouldn't die.

Here's another view of the river. Arizona really is beautiful!

We saw quite a few of these blue cranes. I had no idea birds like that lived in AZ.

We also saw wild horses with their babies. We got super close!

You can't see it very well but there's a bald eagle flying in front of the mountain. We also saw its huge nest.

More pictures of us rowing our boats gently down the stream. I have to add that at the first rapids the other 2 boats tipped over but Brett and I didn't tip the whole time!

This is where we ended and took the boats out.

One last shot of beautiful AZ!

Swimmin' with the boys!

My sister has this pic on her blog already but the twins are so cute so I wanted to spread the cuteness!

Also, I published a post I had saved and it posted out of order. So look down a little ways and there is another new post about our grass and our dog...I know, very exciting.