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Friday, April 27, 2012

Easter Weekend

A week after moving we decided to take a trip since we were closer to family. Luckily my parents were flying to see my brother again, yes 2 times in 2 months. We aren't even in the run for favorite child this year!!! Since we already know who is getting it!! Anyway.... we drove over to Phoenix to see my brother and his family! We had spring break that week so we got to stay a few extra days and let the kids hang out.. My brothers family was so nice to let the girls stay home from school and play with us!

The first morning we woke up the girls let the dog in the house and Tyler was sleeping on the couch and it jumped on him and licked his face and woke him up. They thought that was so funny. I woke up to 4 little girls laughing their heads off!!! They loved walking the dog and taking it to the park!!


These two were so funny. They would dance to music, play star wars, watch batman, play trains and had so much fun together. J was so sad to leave and kept asking if he could go back to see his cousin.

Last time we were in AZ it was Easter and we had an egg hunt so we had another one again this year. We went to the park across the street and had an Easter egg hunt! They were so glad uncle Colt was visiting for the weekend! They all love to tease him.


Ms. S could get Mason to laugh every time. He was sure scared of uncle Doug's laugh but S could get him to start laughing shortly after. He loved the attention!!
It wouldn't be a gathering if we didn't have some type of fight. We had a water and silly string fight. The kids loved it and attacked Doug and Colt the most!!


As always when we get together we have to have some type of photo to show our love!! Our two babies were asleep but we got most of us. It was fun to have my parents there for the weekend.
 

We got to go to the cemetary while we were there. It is such a beautiful spot. Brit brought chairs and we sat and let the kids play and we enjoyed the beauty. It finally got dark so we had to load the kids up!! and we wanted to get home to eat chocolate roll!!!


We went to this great park!! I would love one like this by my house! We feed the ducks there and played on 2 playgrounds and raced on a soccer field. It was our last day there and the kids just wanted to stay. After the park we went to McDonald's and Aunt Brit bought them an ice cream cone. Which when I asked J what the highlight of the trip was he said..... That Aunt Brit bought him Ice cream!!!

 While we were there we got to go see Ty's sister and sister in law. We got to see the new baby but... why I didn't take pictures I'm not sure. He is so cute and we didn't get to stay long enough.

Its fun having family close by at least 7-8 hours is close to us!!



Of course the highlight of the trip.......... Tyler got stung by a scorpion. we were asleep and he jumped out of bed saying something bit him. So I started looking around for something and sure enough there was one on the bed. Luckily my brother had woke up because we turned the hall light on and came to see which kid was awake... but it was just us!! So Doug killed the scorpion since it was his house!!! We iced it and made sure he was going to live. It wouldn't be a vacation if we didn't have some fun story to tell about Tyler!!

Thanks Doug n Brit for letting us stay and for taking us to fun things. We had a great time with you!! Glad we live closer!


3 comments:

Burke & Chelle said...

How fun! Wish we could have been there! I think if Burke woke up yelling something bit me I would just laugh and be like ,"yeah right you were dreaming," you're a good wife and smart because I probably would have gotten bit too since I would have ignored Burke :)

bontovi said...

Yay! Pictures of my favorite San Diego friends:). Sending plenty of Oregon fresh air your way.

Lori Harris said...

What a fun trip...minus the scorpion!! AAAhhhh! I would have freaked out!!

Congrats to your bro on his mission call. That is so cool. Good chatting with you. You're the best!! Take care my friend.