So this past weekend my family flew to Arizona to visit our friends that moved back there over the summer. The trip was to surprise Katie so Kennedy could be there for her birthday party. Well we flew at night so had to wake her up when we got there. I have to say that was the funniest surprises, because she was so out of it, all she noticed was that Kennedy had a new school sweatshirt, not that it was actually Kennedy standing in her room!!!! haha. But those girls stayed up all night talking and had lots of giggles I am sure(I went to bed) Saturday was Katie's party so after getting up and getting around we went to the party which was lots of fun. Kennedy got hurt on the merry go round at the park, but other than that, it was all good(she wasn't the only one that got hurt on that thing and I am still not sure why they even have those in parks anymore).
The one that that didn't change is the two Ca(y)dens and there love of fighting with each other. OMG those two could not get along if their lives depended it on, it kind of became funny after a while. We gave them 24 hours, however we were there about 2 hours and they started and didn't stop until they fell asleep Monday night! Those two will probably be best friends forever, if they can just get past these first years!!! haha.
Sunday, we all took two cars about an hour and half away to go site seeing. That was some really pretty scenery. We saw elk and deer and even got to hear Amber do her moose call. I think it went something like this......Moosey, Moosey, Moosey.....btw, there are no moose there just elk, but it was hilarious and we spent most of the afternoon laughing about that along with the meal deer(it's mule deer, but she misunderstood Mark and thought bigger deer eat the meal deer) The girls had fun doing a photo shoot or at least they thought it was there own personal photo shoot. They had so much fun and it was obvious that they miss each other a ton!!!!
We also had a picnic and even though it was cold, it was even fun. The kids got to just walk around in the woods and Colten got to show off his ninja skills trying to sneak up on people and Amber and I just sat and watched him and laughed so hard.....Bless his heart, he really thought he was blending in!.
After all that we headed back to their house and went to eat some Mexican food that was really good.Woke up Monday morning and got to enjoy a yummy breakfast cooked by Randy's dad. He didn't like the way it turned out but the rest of us enjoyed it. Oh and they also brought me some of my favorite chocolates!!!!!! Not sure which I liked best...haha. After that we went to a gold mine ghost town(turned tourist attraction) and had some ice cream and looked through the shops. Cayden of course knew all about the ghost town and he loved telling me what everything was for. He really liked that they had an old jail there and had to have his picture taken in front of it.
After we left there we went back home to enjoy another meal cooked by Randall which again he wasn't happy with, but it was eaten and we all liked it. Amber picked up some cookies and decorating stuff for the kids to do one last thing together before our overnight trip back home to Texas.
Then it came time to say goodbye...well at least to Katie, everyone else in my family and theirs had fallen asleep. That was really sad, because I miss her being at my house all the time and Kennedy really misses getting to have her here or her being there. So that goodbye was a tough one. One thing I know is that God put that family in our lives to be bonded forever so even though there are 1,000 miles between us, we have to enjoy what time we do get to spend together, and over this weekend we did just that! I was going to try and put one of them in my luggage and bring them back, but then you are faced with which one do you choose???? haha. Well I am done rambling and getting very tired, so I need to get in bed because it is back to work and school tomorrow!
