Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Arizona - More Awesome Days

Ok, so even though we were just in Arizona last week I can't remember what we did each day. My mind must have really been in vacay mode. Monday and Tuesday we took Kaiya over to see her grandparents. On Monday a couple of her cousins were there and so was one of her aunts. They hung around and spent time together while we went back to Santan and walked around the shopping mall. Our first stop was the Disney store. That is where we found the cutest Halloween costumes for the kids.  Jett loves the store and we ended up buying toys because Jett HAD to have them (Mickey spinny thing and a package of Cars). We then went and got the kids a shaved ice and pretzel. There were some toys that the kids played on for a bit. Those pictures are all on my phone which I still need to download and post. That will be a whole other project.
Either Monday or Tuesday we stopped at the Arizona temple. The kids enjoyed walking around and exploring all the new stuff that we don't have in Washington (lime trees, cactus etc). It was sure beautiful.
Ella had her ipod and was taking a bunch of pictures. It made me proud! :)
Lime Tree...at least I hope so because that is what I am calling it
Cannon's new thing. Not Cool Cannon...not cool...
Where there is water...is where you find Jett
She would not take a good picture of just her. Was trying to get a good one for her parents.
Breathtaking
Reaching up for the fruit
I tried for a while to get a picture of Cannon. He kept running away from me or looking down. Here are some of the better ones. I love this boy!
This is so Cannon....
Still jumping...
There we go. He was having too much fun.
Dad helped. I don't think he let them actually pick one though.




More pool pictures! This must have been the morning of visiting the temple. Ella loves to jump in the pool. She is not afraid of the water and wants to be with the older girls most of the time.

SUNSHINE and A Fun Vacation in Arizona

We are home ! It was an amazing vacation in Arizona. We left on a Saturday around 3:00 pm and we flew home the next Saturday around 5:00 pm. Every morning we would wake up, eat breakfast and got ready for the pool. The pool opened at 10:00 am so we would play at the pool for a couple hours. Cannon would usually swim for a bit, get out and take a nap. Then I would be able to lay in the sun. Cirdan usually hung out with Jett in the kiddie pool and Kaylee, Kaiya and Ella would go back and forth from the big pool to the kiddie pool.
We would then go back and get ready for the rest of our day around 12:30. It was nice to not have a schedule and to just do things we wanted to do. The weather was perfect in the high 80's. It was lower temps than normal but for us it was absolutely wonderful.
On Sunday Cirdan took the laptop to the pool so he could watch the Seahawks game.                 
Last year was pictures down the slide. This year was pictures under the waterfall. The kids tried a few times to get some cool shots.
Bright Sun!
Playing with the ball
I could live somewhere with palm trees and be happy just looking at them each day. They make me smile.
On Sunday after the pool we drove to Mesa to check out the Santan area. I have heard a lot about this area (and looked at houses here) so I was excited to check it out. It exceeded my expectations. Talking to people from Arizona they always make it seem like its so far away. To me, it was close. I am not sure if it's because we are from Washington and everything is far or what. They have a newer outside shopping center with lots of fun stores. We ended up going back the next day to walk around the stores (more on that later). We stopped by the new Gilbert Temple. For some reason I thought it was open but I guess they are still working on it. It was beautiful. There were also a lot of new neighborhoods with lots of houses for sale. We drove past a few and remembered the neighborhoods we liked. It was a success!

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Cannon 15 Months

Height - 84 cm 2'9.07 - 94.08%
Weight - 28 lbs 95.79%

Sunday, September 29, 2013