Horsethief Lake After that we headed to Mount Rushmore National Memorial. It had been raining all day, but luckily it started to clear up while we were at the Crazy Horse Memorial. We stopped at Horsethief Lake on our way up and it was beautiful. It’s just a small little lake on your way up …
Crazy Horse Memorial
Next we drove over to the Crazy Horse Memorial. This was actually something we hadn’t planned on going to, but once we got here, decided that it was worth stopping at. I honestly knew NOTHING about who Crazy Horse was or anything about this memorial prior but it also proved to be really interesting. A …
Jewel Cave
Tuesday we left around noon and headed up north. Our trip up was pretty uneventful – which is probably a good thing. We arrived in Hill City, South Dakota a little after six that evening and found a little restaurant to eat at. We got all checked-in and settled in our hotel for the night. …
ARIZONA
Our first Berning Family Vacation was to the Grand Canyon State and it was awesome and beautiful and we would TOTALLY do it again! This was our first year doing what I know will become one of my favorite traditions ever! Arizona is one of those states where I feel like we could do at …
Grand Canyon
We woke up early and drove up to Grand Canyon National Park. Mark had never been there before and I hadn’t been to the South Rim before – and it was ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL! It was in the 60’s both days we were there and it was PERFECT! We took so many pictures of tons of different …
Arizona Diamondbacks
After the temple we changed in the visitor’s center back into our regular clothes, stopped and ate at IN- N-OUT and then drove back into Phoenix to go to an Arizona Diamondback‘s game. I had never been to an actual “professional” baseball game. But I LOVED IT! I spent the majority of my time figuring …
Mesa Arizona Temple
Then we hurried over that afternoon to go over to the Mesa Arizona Temple. I LOVED IT! They didn’t have anyone helping with sealings so we actually ended up doing sealings instead of a session. It was the first time Mark and I have been able to do them together and it was great. We …
Phoenix Zoo
Apparently the Phoenix Zoo is one of the top five zoo’s in the nation for kids and it REALLY was fun! We didn’t really take any pictures of us at the zoo, but we took lots of the animals. I love that Mark likes to read all of the information with me and so neither …
Camelback Mountain
This year for our first family vacation we went to ARIZONA! It was such a fun trip and we definitely did not want to come back! We took SO many pictures (we were proud of ourselves) but most of them would probably only be fun for us, but I will still put lots up – point being …