Sedona, Arizona

Our oldest daughter is named Sedona, so we HAD to go to Sedona.

In fact when Lucas and I were hear about 10 years ago we found out that 

Sedona is named after a woman--She and her husband owned a fruit orchard in the 

area and when the post master asked what they would name the town

Sedona's husband said "Schebley Station"  The postmaster said "No."

so they named it Sedona --after his wife

Sedona Larsen Schebley.

This is the statue of her outside the Public Library in town. 

(that is where the name Schebley Hill comes from-for those of who who travel there)

We both really liked the name and it stuff with us...so when we had a daughter 4 years later we named her Sedona.

We wanted to do a few more things, but time just didn't permit.  

After arriving (about 2 hours later then expected because of the hotel mix up--you will read about it at the first part of the Grand Canyon post)  we  went and hiked Devils Bridge.

I think that is what it is called.  Really pretty easy hike and a cool feature at the end. 

While hiking to the top this guy with his daughter (about 11) come hiking past us---she clearly needs a break and the dad is not about to stop.

So we see them at the top and I take some pictures for them and he takes some pictures of us---only to discover he didn't take a single picture---I have no idea what he was pushing, but we had no pictures....So me and the girls went back out to take a picture--

You can't tell how high up we are at these angle---

So we hiked to the bottom---

We were at the top of this in the last two pictures---I am really surprised they having blocked this off yet!  I am sure it will be one day.  

Sedona wanted to climb this rock and did, it scared Pepper, but she wanted to climb it too.

She was shaking from fear and , but she climb it!  

We were so proud of her!

The next day we decided to hike Cathedral rock.  We were super lucky/blessed because the parking lot was tiny and a car pulled out right as we pulled in!

The traditional start of hike family picture---too bad I stood right in front of Wheeler!

Just a cool shot

People were really impressed with Lucas hiking up with Wheeler.  This Looks a lot harder and scarier then it really is. 

This looks like Mesa Verde--maybe I got them mixed up.  We ended up wearing the same clothes for a few days--yuck I know, but we did wear clean Pj's to bed!  So some of the pictures got mixed up. 

You can't really tell in this picture, but there are about 5 trails that meet up here-To the left and right are hiking/biking trails, and then there are 3 other hiking trails straight forward. 

Since so much of this we steep Pepper scooted on her bottom down the mountain--she really did't want me to take this picture, but I snuck it in! 

This hike has a lot of climbing, but it isn't really that hard--

it really is pretty and I am glad we did it. 

The top of Schebley Hill

 Leaving Sedona during sunset is so pretty.  This is taken on Schebley Hill 

This lake was a pretty little thing we passed heading towards Grand Canyon.