AZ Trip

This year, I decided to spend two whole weeks in Arizona with my family. Half of the time at my sister's house and half with my parents. We, honestly, had a great time. The weather was perfect, except for the one day when it was 99-degrees and I decided that I can never live there again. I could, I would just have to get used to it I think.

We went to the zoo- twice, to a train park, saw some friends I hadn't seen in a while, ate at my favorite Mexican restaurant-Rosa's, got our teeth cleaned by my sister, got a facial by my other sister, had a dinner with my cousins at my uncle & aunt's house, went to the park multiple times, had a family breakfast cook-out (just like old times), and just tried to enjoy the sunshine. I really, really love sunshine- especially when it is so gray during the winter up here.

At Usery Pass for breakfast cookout:

Feeding the giraffe at the zoo:
Playing in the backyard:
The zoo has these splash parks and this one had a cave with waterslides. It was pretty cool:



At the train park with Uncle Brett & Avery:
Brooke did a lot of chillin' in the shade:
We also set up a splash pool for the little girls and they loved to play:
Shayne was obsessed with my brother's little puppy. She'd chase it around and trying to hold it which mostly ended up with her strangling the poor thing. My parents and sister also have inside dogs so Shayne was in heaven to be able to run around the house with dogs chasing her.
Shayne did get ear infections while we were there so she was miserable for a couple of days before the antibiotics kicked in. She also stepped on a huge long thorn with her foot. And I stepped on a scorpion and got stung while we were there. At first I thought, "Do I need to go to the ER or something?" but it's really like a bad bee sting and then your foot in numb for about 24 hours. Luckily, Sarah pulverized that thing with a broomstick.

I'm definitely going to do this again next year. It was a great trip!