Arizona 2011

We made it to Arizona!!! It had been a long 2 weeks leading up to the trip. We have put our house on the market and it was a race against time to get it ready before we left....but we made it! Boys were woken up at 3:30am so we could catch our 6am flight but they did great. Owen slept on the flight down, ryan watched a movie. We ate breakfast, mommy got her tea latte :) and then off to Surprise to watch the royals practice.....

Only to find out that they had the day off. What else do you do???? Well, go to the rental house and start swimming!

Thursday morning was Pinnacle Peak....exactly what I was waiting for. Couldn't wait to go hiking! Boys did great....they made it a little over 1/2 mile up and then back down. Oh, and then had to stop at Coffee Bean and Tea leaf to get my tea latte again :)

The theme of the week for the little boys was SWIMMING! They did not want to go to any baseball games. so while the big boys watched ball, mommy and the boys were swimming. it was nice and relaxing.

We did make it to Phoenix Children's Museum one morning, which the kids really enjoyed.

The rest of the time, we were just enjoying our 5 bedroom rental house. Owen called it his "yellow house." When we told him saturday night that we had to pack our bags b/c we were flying back to owen's house in the morning, he told us "no stay at my yellow house." he loved that house! a few other great comments came from ryan. my #1 comments from ryan was "mommy, we did not come to arizona for lattes." well, ryan, sorry but mommy did come to arizona to have some great tea lattes from Coffee bean and Tea leaf :)

back to the airport to fly home. it was a great vacation!

daddy and ryan on the plane

beef, callie, and emily sat right behind us.

The next weekend we were back to Sedalia for Callie's baptism. Owen was a cuttie in his sweater!