Trip to Arizona

I took the kids out of school 2 weeks early and we headed to Arizona, for warmer weather and to see family. Kate got to meet her great grandma for the first time and all my kids got to meet their great uncle Brett, who I hadn't seen in about 12 years. It was such a fun trip I don't even know where to begin. We did so much and got to see so many people. We are truly blessed to have such great family and friends in Arizona to visit!!! So I'm offering fair warning there will be lots of pictures to follow...The above picture is my kids 4 hours into the 16 hour drive to Arizona. We owe a huge thanks to grandma for flying to Salt Lake to help me drive to AZ. It deffinetly made the trip more enjoyable for all.

All of the swimming began at 9pm the night we got to grandma's and grandpas. And continued everyday. Most days you could find us in the pool for at least 5 hours a day. We were soaking up the sun and water.

It was even a special treat for me, I got to see 2 of my very best friends. I love those girls and their kids are sooo cute!!!


We even had time to sneak in a few extra pics before church. How cute!!

Here's our family photo shoot we had. Everyone was there except Mark, we missed you. The siblings are all growing up and we are getting to be quite the group.

The boys hanging out with their uncles while the ladies got their pedicures.

Jessica, Kate and Me. She was gearing up to have my boys for a sleepover. She's awesome and the kids had a blast, thanks guys.
The whole time we were in AZ, Kate had a thing for the dog beds and and loved to play and lay in them. They were just her size.
This was a common site around the house Brett and Mason walking around in shorts and no shirts. Peas in a pod.

And more popsicles, Idahoans trying to stay cool.

Jess and Kate, I was shocked she just cuddled right up to her.

More pictures from swimming at Chase's. We ate yummy mexican food with the missionaries and then we did the slip and slide and swam in their pool. Mason is so not a water guy and kept Uncle Joe company with his phone. While we were eating Mason had to go poop. He yelled for me to come wipe his bum and he had locked the door. Well Chase didn't have a key and Mason refused to get off the toliet to unlock it, he said he was going to get poop everywhere. It took three different people to try and when we finally got in there to wipe his bum there was one piece of poop the size of a dime. So much for the fact he couldn't get up or he would get poop all over the place.Ice cream and popsicles were a must at grandma and grandpa's. Grandpa spoiled us and bought us 80 ice cream sandwhiches, a big box of otter pops and a bag of popsicles all to eat while we were there. And I must say I don't think we left much behind for them to enjoy.

Here is a sweet picture of great grandma Farnsworth and Kate I just couldn't pass up. So sweet.Here is what we looked like walking through downtown Pheonix in 100 degree weather. (and yes all 4 kids are in the stoller.)

They loved riding the light rail and thought it was one of the coolest things we did.Me and the kids got to go see Kaley's classroom. This was her final year teaching so she was there packing up stuff and she let the kids come eat lunch and play on her smart board. Nixon and Mason thought it was really cool to eat lunch at school and Riley enjoyed sitting up front and getting to be like a teacher.

Chase and Kaley had us all over for dinner on Monday night. We ate mexican food and had the missionaries join us. Then we went outside for some slip'n'slide fun. The adults even got into it and had a contest who could go the furtherest. And if I remember correctly my little big brother beat us all by a mile. The kids loved the slip'n'slide too. Then we headed over to there pool. Chase, Riley and Nixon all had cannon ball contests. I would have to say the pool was quite a bit lower when we left. We all squeezed into the hot tub to play dribble, dribble, drench. The kids loved dumping cups full of water on our heads. Once we were all water logged enough we headed back to the house for some homemade ice cream sandwhiches. Yummy!! Thanks again to Chase and Kaley, we had a great time!!

For a special treat Grandma let us get out all of her fun doctor stuff and play. The kids were loved checking all of our reflexes and thought that was pretty funny. I actually thought it was pretty interesting to see each of my kids' ears. But I think the favorite was giving the grapefruit its shots.
We took the kids to a couple of museums. The first was Falcon Field Air Museum. They had lots of really cool old air planes, helicopters, missles and lots of other military stuff. The favorite by far was the little yellow air plane they were able to pedal all around.
The other museum we went to was the Phoenix Children' s Museum. There was so many amazing things that actually seemed pretty cheap to create and the kids absolutely loved it. Some of our favorites things in the museum were, noodle forest, the race car track, the car wash, the huge play gym and the grocery store. Although I think they probably enjoyed the light rail we took down town almost as much as the museum.

I got to see my cousins(who are actually the same age as my kids) But it was a lot of fun seeing family, eating and swimming.

We went to the blue wave and got ice cream. The kids thought it was fun because you picked your ice cream, then put on your toppings and weighed it to find out how much you had to pay for it.

The girls got to spend an evening(boy free) getting pedicures. Thanks to mom and Jessica for setting it all up and hosting it. This is a before picture of our toes...

And here is after, much better!!