The Cunning Crew: October 2016

Driving down to St. George...snow on the ground and sunset in the sky!

We made it to St. George to spend the night with Grammy and Grampy and then wake up and head to Arizona. It was nice to split up the trip since the drive is so long! We didn't leave until after Jeremy got off work, so we got to St. George around 11 pm.

Arizona has some strange wild animals! These are called Javelinas (not sure how to spell it)

We stayed at the Marriott beach club resort for the first 3 nights. The kids had a BLAST staying there. The pool was awesome and they did crafts and activities every few hours!

We painted piggy banks...Jeremy's never got finished.

Cameron and daddy played a lot of pool basketball. I enjoyed swimming and laying on the lounge chair....being 6 months pregnant I deserved to relax a little :)

This was the reason for the trip! Janessa came home from her mission in Korea! Yahoo. Since her family moved from Utah to Arizona while she was on her mission, we were all sad we wouldn't get to see her at the airport. So we decided to do something about that, we made a trip to make sure we were there!

Such a happy and exciting time! We are so proud of her and she seemed so happy to see us all. Cameron and Mackenzie made super cute welcome home signs and could't wait to see her.

Grammy and Grampy were super happy. Grammy even made the sign in Korean. She hoped it really said "welcome home" like she thought it did :) Janessa said it passed.

More pool fun at the lazy river.

B.I.N.G.O We didn't win any of our games. With 4 boards and 6 games, that's not good luck! Some cute old couple gave the kids' their winnings....full size candy bars!

Yay for Cafe Rio in Arizona! Mackenzie wanted to sit by Janessa every chance she got. She even did Mackenzie's hair.

Home made play dough. Cameron hated the idea of mixing the concoction up with his hands, like they were supposed to. He hates getting his hands dirty/messy! So I did it for him.

Another day they colored these cute shirts! Jeremy and I colored duffle bags.

I have to say this was my favorite activity!!! Seriously, it was so good and fun! We made Carmel apples. They had a big table set up with a pot of melted carmel and then we got to put the chocolate and all kinds of candy and nuts on them. They were sooooo good!!

Grampy and Grammy treated us all to dinner at Olive Garden.

Sleeping at Aunt Michele's. I thought it was so funny they both were sleeping in the same weird position.

It was super nice weather while we were down there. Not usual for February I guess. Anyway, they don't heat their pools because in the summer it's hot enough they don't need to. So although the sun was out and it was 90 degrees we didn't swim much in their pool. The water was like 40 degrees. I did jump in and swim a few laps just to prove I was cool or maybe stupid. BURRR

The kids had fun playing with Spencer. He chased them around and played football with them. Mackenzie was cracking him up because she said his "freakin glasses are wet".

We went to the library one day for something to do and they had a cooking class. The chef picked Cameron to come up and help him cook some stuff. There was a room full of about 30 people.

We opened some Valentine presents there since we were there on Valentine's Day. Michele had some things to give the kids and so did Grammy and Grampy. Jeremy was nice to think of bringing me a Valentine too....

Spending some time at the park swinging, and playing soccer before going back to the house for dinner.

Hot air balloons are always in the air by their house.

Then we played a game we will never forget. It's the best game ever. We laughed soooo hard!

Cameron was such a good/smart player. He is such a smart kid and a good artist.

Too bad daddy and grammy weren't so good :) This is grammy's picture she drew that I had to guess what it was. The answer is a "rattle snake". ???? Artist to Artist was what Grammy said to Cameron when she guessed a picture he drew. Then she turned around and drew this. We laughed so hard and said artist to artist....lol

Then Jeremy drew these things....the answer "alligator" Not sure why he drew two and who knew Alligators liked to float on their backs!

On the way back we decided to drive straight through. We made lots of pit stops and did a little sight seeing. Hoover Dam was a good stop to walk around and give my cramping back and legs a rest. Riding in a car for 12 hours when you are 6 months pregnant was lots of fun!

We started the trip with a sunset and we ended the trip with a sunset. What a fun time we had. Such great memories were made. The kids didn't want to leave.