Arizona

My family and I took a quick trip down to Arizona to visit some family! My cousin and her husband just built a beautiful home and needed some help moving in since my cousin is on bedrest due to her pregnancy. Besides, we are always looking for an excuse to go down.

It was gorgeous! 70's everyday! I love Arizona in the winter!

Here's the whole clan at Hoover Dam... except my dad who is taking the picture! I LOVE my big family!
We really missed not having Tren and Stephen with us for this trip!

We decided to road trip it down there since so many of us were going. We took two cars cuz the older kids needed to be back sooner than the rest of the family. It was fun because we had a 'girl' car and Shaline and I were able to have some quality time with Brindyn doing 'girl' stuff!

We passed the time taking pictures of everything on the way down there... including a bunch of pictures of my dad driving. You gotta love road trips! :)

Citrus is in season down there! We couldn't pass up making fresh orange juice every morning! It was delicious!
Don't I look like a million bucks in the morning?? LOL

Dad and Sean practicing some basketball in the gorgeous weather!

Brandall adjusting to being home again! He of course had to practice his golfing and he couldn't help but show everyone up with his acrobat skills on the trampoline :)

Brandall, Shaline and Me

Picking oranges at my cousins! We brought home so many oranges, grapefruits, lemons and pecans! They are delicious!

My aunt has a pool in her backyard, and although it is sunny down there the water was freezing. The kids kept insisting it is warm enough to go swimming. We had them feel the water they all said 'oh yeah, that's super warm.' So we made a deal with them... (evil laugh) we told them they could get in if they all jumped in at once. They agreed! We had everyone out there to watch their reaction and it was priceless.

They jumped in and jumped right back out. Suddenly swimming didn't sound so fun! :)

Here is Dannion and Brindyn taking in the sun!












Luckily Aunt Frances did let the go 'swimming' in her hot tub! They were able to warm up in there!