Massey Family: Vacation in Springerville, AZ

Last vacation days before schools starts on Wednesday. We of course were not ready when we should have been. Levi ended up working until after 9:00 the night before we left which put us even further behind. Finally Levi & I started out Thursday eager to meet up with the boys since we hadn't seen them in a week. Ran into a lot of construction along the way....stop & go...up & down the mountains. Just before we went into the canyon before Showlow the brakes on the truck overheated and we had none. Pulling our toy hauler with all those bikes in there is not the funnest with no brakes. We pulled over (by this time were really late) to let the brakes cool and make sure we had some before going into the canyon. OH GREAT.....why why why we were saying just something else to delay our trip. You know I really wanted to get out of the heat for vacation. Levi's mom was already way ahead of us and was going to get to the meeting point way before us. We'll while we were there an older lady in her 70's pulled up also hauling a trailer.....her brakes overheated also. She was supper nervous about the canyon to begin with and with having her brakes overheat was now scared. While we were both waiting we talked to her she was headed to visit her son in Michigan for a while. Really nice lady. After a while it was time to go just as we were getting ready to go she started getting really scared and started to cry. Levi assured her everything was going to be good and told her that she could follow us down and we would go extremely slow and make sure she made it to the bottom. We said a prayer and headed out. As we were going down the canyon Levi & I were talking about how he had pulled our trailer tons of times all over and never had a problem when it hit us that this was just another one of Gods wonderful plans and he put us there to comfort the lady that we met and to help her get down the canyon.....Isn't our God amazing how he works. We'll we get down the hill just fine, the lady gets down just fine. We pulled over at the bottom to make sure she was ok and we were able to talk to her again and share with her how we felt that God put us there to share with her and be there for her in her time of being scared. As soon as we told her that she again started to cry and gave us a big hug. The stained glass angel that is in a previous post that was suppose to go to Levi's cousin we'll I gave it to that lady so she could remember the protection that God gave her that Thursday afternoon. We also gave her one of our bibles and a card for our church. I don't know where she stands with God or what her beliefs are but I do know that Levi & I were truly blessed to have met her and share Gods love with her. I don't know why because we see God do miracles in our lives everyday but I'm always amazed at how God uses us to help and bring others closer to him....which is what I hope & pray that we did. As I write this blog I just pray that she made it there safe and is having a wonderful time with her son.

+ + + +God your always so faithful to us, your love and protection is never ending. I pray that you put a hedge of protection over Darlene where ever she is tonight. I pray that through all of her being scared that she felt your hands wrapped around her and felt completely at peace knowing that your in control. I'm ever so thankful for you using me & Levi that day and I pray that we always have open hearts and minds for you. Amen + + + +

To some that will be just coincidence to us it was an appointment from God. What a blessing.........Ok so we got to Springerville. Here are the pics from our wonderful trip in no particular order.

Levi & the boys with there bikes at our camp.

A trail right by our camp.

Pic of our trailer & our camping area.

This is Levi's mom pulling the 4whlr because the battery was dead........got it started and didn't have a problem the rest of the time.

Keith one of the times we were out riding.

Logan...whining cause his boots were hurting his feet. The stinkin boots are new he's only wore them 2 times before this.......STOP GROWING!!!!

Great riding area

Beautiful view while we were riding.

I just loved this pic...all of them looking out at the view. I wish it wasn't so shaded but I thought it was a great moment caught on film.

My guys

This was my favorite pic of the whole bunch.

Me & the boys...I know I look awful but we had been riding all day. I did have to take a shower that night.........can't stand to be dirty.....it's still camping even if you have a shower.