Arizona Adventures - Part 1

(sorry about the odd spacing...I'll fix it later. Right now blogger is driving me mad!)

I have so many great pictures from our trip, I decided to blog in pieces. We had a wonderful time, despite the stomach flu, pink eye, ear infection, and cold. :)

The first morning we were there was Valentines day & the kids made and decorated Valentines sugar cookies with my mom. My mom has a ton of patience. I think we made about forty cookies. They were YUMMY!! Especially the ones with chocolate chips. I've included a picture of Erica's Creation:

One of the best parts of our trip was playing in the fenced in backyard. Here are pictures of Jacob with his first grass experience. He hated the grass. His mean mommy would put his favorite toys in the grass to see if he disliked the grass enough to ignore his toys. It was sure easy to play outside because he stayed on his blanket "island." Later he invented his "uh-oh" game and kept dropping things over and over. This was very cute until he tried to play it on the plane. Isn't his shirt cute?


















Erica had fun collecting nature items. She put dozens of potato bugs (what's the plural of roly-poly?) in a bag with lots of things for them to eat and play with. At first, she sealed the bag until I told her they couldn't breath. Whoops! Then she left the bag up in a tree overnight so they wouldn't escape.

Robby had a blast with the $2 bat and ball we bought at Wal-Mart. Oh how I miss having a Wal-Mart nearby (I never thought I'd say those words). My mom has two within two miles! (Speaking of Wal-Mart, their White Cloud diapers solved my diaper leakage issue I mentioned in my previous post.) Later, Grandpa Bert & Erica had a lot of fun with the bat and ball, too.






















This leads to the LEMON tree!! Watch for later posts of making homemade lemonade! Grandma and Grandpa had lemons, tangelos, and broccoli for the picking. It was almost enough for me to want my own garden one day. The lemons you see in the picture are the ones picked from the pruned branches! My kids were in heaven. Look at Erica tugging that lemon!

This picture of Jacob was so cute, I had to include it. I'm not sure why he is so concerned:

I love my kids and I love them even more in a fenced-in backyard!!

Another cute picture...except for Erica's odd contorted body.