Rula Ipson- April 21, 1919- March 30, 2009

We just got a call from my uncle Dave saying my grandma Ipson passed away today. I don't know how to handle death. The only person close to me that has died was my grandpa Leavitt and that was when I was still in high school.

My grandma was awesome. She used to always come down on tuesdays, work in the temple on wednesdays and leave thursday. For years she did that. She's had such a hard life, but she was such an amazing person. She is finally with her husband- my grandpa Ipson(he died in 1982- 26 1/2 years ago) and she never remarried! As soon as I find more pictures of her I will post them. Right now I am just in shock! But it's been a long time coming. I don't know whether to feel blessed to have had her in my life and happy that she now with grandpa Morrill or sad that she will no longer be in my life. The shock will probably hit me when I am at work and I'll probably start crying while I am packing a box. I hope my bosses will be understanding if I have a break down.
It will be great to see all my cousins at her funeral, but I just wish it was for something happier!
I love you grandma!

Montezuma's Castle and Well

Ok, these are backwards! This is the ditch that the water from Montezuma Well comes out of(It comes out of the mountain).

This is Montezuma's Well, it's like a big crater, and water is at the bottom. You can see the little Indian houses(I don't know what there called) on the side of the mountain. There are 3 of them. The water is lukewarm, for winter(it was probably in the 70's), so for Indians to find something like that would be awesome. And it's fresh water, there wasn't any smell(sulphuric-like hot springs have). The water goes through the mountain to the ditch and I guess it went to the castle, I really didn't pay attention to the exact details, it was too neat!

Trent, Dani and Emily. They were being dorks. They wouldn't smile decent, ok, we did get some good pictures of them, but Trent won't let me put them on my blog, he wants to put them on his.

Montezuma Castle, it's on the side of the mountain, it's really cool.

At a distance. If anyone goes to Phoenix or southern Arizona, this is one place to stop and see. It's a really neat place.

The trip was so fun. We originally were going to go hiking in Sedona, but I've never been very comfortable in Sedona(I've heard too many stories), even though it's gorgeous there, I just feel like it's not a very good place. But me and my dad wanted to see the castle and well, and Cory lives in the town named after them, so we decided to do that instead. I really enjoyed my time there. I was afraid I was going to have panic attacks, but I guess I stayed on top of it, even though I was tired the whole time. I had a nap at Corys after hiking, High School Musical woke me up(the most annoying movie ever- not really the musical fan).

Sunday was nice, we went to the blessing, then to Tammy's(Natalies stepsister) for lunch. She has a really nice house. She has this huge chair and I almost fell asleep in it. It was so comfortable.

The drive home was LONG!!!!! I slept from Camp Verde(Tammy's) to Flagstaff, then after that I was too wired. But I love the drive over the reservation. It's so desolate, it's really interesting. Then Marble Canyon is gorgeous. It's just a really pretty drive. We stopped on the bridge and some California condors nesting there. Got some really neat pictures of the kids. Then after that the drive was boring!!!

All in all it was a good trip!