Fall Vacation to a Summery Place

I'm going to warn you all right now-there are TONS of pictures ahead! Okay, fair warning.
This week was spent in the great state of Arizona, which always brings back memories of my childhood. My and I got in late on Monday night. Tuesday was spent at cousin Anji's with the kids (cousin Anji hosted us and showed us a great time!). We did a craft with leaves that my mom had brought with her (if I refer to my mom as "Nanda" in this narrative, it's because that's what the kids call her). We also went to the park and got on the swings.







The next day, we had lunch with a great friend from Lakeside- Robyn Rogers. In this picture, you'll also meet mom's leading man Greg!


We then took the kids to Build-A-Bear (An Aunt Heather tradition). Here's a few good ones from that.





The next day, we hit the zoo:




You can see in the one picture, Rees and I are praying to the mist gods because we're so dang hot.
They got a little tired at the end.....


We spent that night at Monique's parent's house and had a lovely homemade mexican meal.
Friday, I rented myself a car (it turned out to be a PT Cruiser. I felt cool driving in that thing!) and drove to Tucson Arizona where I got to spend the evening with Catherine, a friend from my childhood.






Yesterday, we had to say good-bye. What a wonderful vacation. Hopefully we can get these guys back here one of these days!