{"id":8866,"date":"2014-04-13T21:43:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T03:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=8866"},"modified":"2014-04-14T07:44:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T13:44:00","slug":"bryce-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=8866","title":{"rendered":"Bryce Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bryce Canyon is AMAZING.  I think it would be stunning in any kind of weather.  The days we were there for spring break, we had sun, rain, wind and snow, all in the same day.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/gallery3\/var\/resizes\/2014\/Q2-April-June-2014\/2014-04-13-Phoenix-Trip\/DSCN4656.JPG?m=1397430336\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/gallery3\/var\/resizes\/2014\/Q2-April-June-2014\/2014-04-13-Phoenix-Trip\/DSCN4657.JPG?m=1397430339\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I would EVER run out of beautiful sights to take pictures of.  We found this log with our initials carved in it.  How sweet is that?<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/gallery3\/var\/resizes\/2014\/Q2-April-June-2014\/2014-04-13-Phoenix-Trip\/DSCN4671.JPG?m=1397431678\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/gallery3\/var\/resizes\/2014\/Q2-April-June-2014\/2014-04-13-Phoenix-Trip\/DSCN4676.JPG?m=1397430381\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nJenna was near the edge here, and I freaked out a bit, yelling at her to get back.  The kids made fun of me for it for the rest of the trip.  Nice, aren&#8217;t they?  A mother gets worried that her kids are going to fall off cliffs, ok?<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/gallery3\/var\/resizes\/2014\/Q2-April-June-2014\/2014-04-13-Phoenix-Trip\/DSCN4678.JPG?m=1397430386\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nBesides the stunning rocks, there are some amazing trees.  Loved this one.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/gallery3\/var\/resizes\/2014\/Q2-April-June-2014\/2014-04-13-Phoenix-Trip\/DSCN4717.JPG?m=1397430475\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nSince the day was overcast, we didn&#8217;t get many of the brilliant reds, but we did get some gorgeous views of the winter and snow.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/gallery3\/var\/resizes\/2014\/Q2-April-June-2014\/2014-04-13-Phoenix-Trip\/DSCN4768.JPG?m=1397430591\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When we went out to this point, it was SO windy. We asked someone to take our picture.  You probably can&#8217;t tell, but we are freezing at this point.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/gallery3\/var\/resizes\/2014\/Q2-April-June-2014\/2014-04-13-Phoenix-Trip\/DSCN4770.JPG?m=1397430595\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Natalie&#8217;s hair was a bit wild.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/gallery3\/var\/resizes\/2014\/Q2-April-June-2014\/2014-04-13-Phoenix-Trip\/DSCN4773.JPG?m=1397431754\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/gallery3\/var\/resizes\/2014\/Q2-April-June-2014\/2014-04-13-Phoenix-Trip\/DSCN4784.JPG?m=1397431767\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThere weren&#8217;t many opportunities to get a blue sky, so when I found one, I had to snap away.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/gallery3\/var\/resizes\/2014\/Q2-April-June-2014\/2014-04-13-Phoenix-Trip\/DSCN4794.JPG?m=1397430650\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nWe didn&#8217;t do much hiking, but at sunrise or sunset (can&#8217;t remember which one) point, we went down the trail a bit. Because the view was stunning.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/gallery3\/var\/resizes\/2014\/Q2-April-June-2014\/2014-04-13-Phoenix-Trip\/DSCN4819.JPG?m=1397431834\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThat&#8217;s me, by the way.<\/p>\n<p>AT our last stop of the day, we wanted to get a family picture all together.  Tried the timer thing but there was nothing to rest the camera on.  Ryan tried putting it in a tree.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/gallery3\/var\/resizes\/2014\/Q2-April-June-2014\/2014-04-13-Phoenix-Trip\/DSCN4844.JPG?m=1397430763\" alt=\"\" \/> Let&#8217;s just say that didn&#8217;t work.  But some hikers came by eventually and were more than willing to take a picture for us (most people were).  Should have brought my picstand, right?<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/gallery3\/var\/resizes\/2014\/Q2-April-June-2014\/2014-04-13-Phoenix-Trip\/DSCN4846.JPG?m=1397430768\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/gallery3\/var\/resizes\/2014\/Q2-April-June-2014\/2014-04-13-Phoenix-Trip\/DSCN4851.JPG?m=1397430779\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/gallery3\/var\/thumbs\/2014\/Q2-April-June-2014\/2014-04-13-Phoenix-Trip\/DSCN4861.JPG?m=1397430801\" alt=\"\" \/> <img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/gallery3\/var\/thumbs\/2014\/Q2-April-June-2014\/2014-04-13-Phoenix-Trip\/DSCN4864.JPG?m=1397430807\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryce Canyon is AMAZING. I think it would be stunning in any kind of weather. The days we were there for spring break, we had sun, rain, wind and snow, all in the same day. I don&#8217;t think I would EVER run out of beautiful sights to take pictures of. We found this log with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8866"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8873,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8866\/revisions\/8873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}