Trip to Arizona

I am finally all settled in from our wonderful trip to Arizona. We got to see Gigi, Papa, my dad, & my sister Andrea! The girls behaved so well while we we there! It was so fun to show off my girls to the family down there.

We left on Friday afternoon to head to the airport in Seattle and made it to Phoenix at 10:00pm. I was amazed the girls did so well so late. On Saturday though, the girls got up too early in the morning. In fact, they got up two hours too early almost every day we were there. Thank goodness someone else got up with them besides me! On Saturday we dyed Easter eggs and made ''resurrection cookies." The cookies have a part of the Easter story with each ingredient and you put them in the oven on the night before Easter before bed and then in the morning you eat a cookie and it is hollow just like Jesus' tomb! The cookies must have made an impression because when we were reading the Easter story to the girls that morning, Kelby said, "just like our cookies!" when it came to the part about the tomb.

Easter was wonderful. The girls had far too much candy to find when it came to the Easter egg hunt. The plastic and real eggs were hidden all over the orange grove. It was so cute to watch them look for them all. That day was Papa's birthday too so it was twice the celebration. We had a delicious turkey dinner and cake and ice cream for dessert. Mike and I left that evening to head down to Nogales for the night. Gigi & Papa watched the girls for us all day on Monday! Mike and I got to go to Mexico the next day. We only lasted there a couple hours because I couldn't handle the stress of bartering with the store owners. It was so much fun to go though & really an experience. We only took three pictures while we were there because we didn't want to look too touristy. After that adventure we went to Tombstone. Mike has always wanted to go there. We went out to lunch, then to a little show about the town & a re-enactment of the gun fight that happened there. There was a museum to browse through and then we went to boot hill. It was an interesting day and a fun time being together alone. On our way back to Mesa we stopped at my sister's school and she showed us around and introduced us to all her friends. It made me miss being in college. We gathered that the girls and Gigi & Papa had a good time that day too!

Kelby spent her whole time playing in the kiddy pool that Papa kept full of warm water, jumping on the trampoline, & playing in a pile of dirt...sounds like heaven huh? Tegan didn't like the pool quite as much. She was a little afraid of the trampoline but finally got into it when someone was holding her hands.

On Tuesday it was a little bit chilly, so we bundled up and went to the park to feed the duckies and played for awhile. After that Gigi & Papa took us out to Tortilla Flats for lunch. That's a little "town" out in the middle of nowhere in the hills near the "Lost Dutchman" mine. The bathrooms in the restaurant there were something else (see the pictures.) We drove up to the top of a mountain and looked down over a beautiful canyon. It was a wonderful day for all of us.

On Wednesday we relaxed and tried to catch some rays before we headed home early Thursday morning to the cloudy & rainy Washington.

Thank you Gramma and Grampa for having us come down there. The girls and Mike and I had so much fun with you. Kelby and Tegan miss you much.

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