thank you family

first of all, thank you momma for taking care of our houses and cats while we were gone! i don't know what i would have done without you. it is so nice to come home to happy loveable cats and empty sinks and watered plants and clean catboxes. next time, though, you're coming with us! we'll figure out a way and you will relish the experience along with the rest of us. thanks for listening to my stories while i ate my raley's sandwich today and taking me shopping; you are so fun and you are the sweetest.

the rest of you, addie, art, amy, matt, stan, phil, mikie, candice, dad, joey, emily and of course, darin: i love you so much and miss being around you ALL together at once! my heart is bursting with joy that we DID IT, we hiked to havasu falls finally like i have always lazily dreamed of, and that everything was more blessed and beautiful than i could have possibly imagined. now my daydreams and my strange delirious car dreams and lucid dreams are full of waterfalls and red dirt roads and horses and clouds and beetles and dogs and pools and moss and canyons and rocks and roads and yucca and limestone and all of you.

i have uploaded my pictures to flickr and i have seen everyone's except addie's and art's and amy's and matt's. can't wait to examine them in great heart-heaving detail, i am just still in a whirlwind of love for our trip and i want to tell everyone i meet all about it.

thanks for being the greatest family on earth. let's plan another adventure!