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We left Thursday around 4:30 for our road trip to Arizona. My dad rented 2 full size cars for our trip. My brother Jacob and his wife Angie drove the one vehicle with Kylee, their daughter, and Emma. Dad, mom, Micah, Creed and I were in the other. We settled in for the long drive and were prepared with our talk-abouts that came in very handy. Praise God we didn't have any kind of car crisis, but spent alot of our time at every stop gathering goodies and using the facilities. Finally we rolled into Casa Grande around 5 in the morning and ate a tasty breakfast at the local IHOP.

We stayed with my Tia Liz in her beautiful home. Creed got his own room, E, M and I had another room. We were quite comfy. My poor mom and dad slept on an air mattress in the living room :( Thanks for your sacrifice M and D. Jacob and his family stayed at Corey and Evie's place which was just around the corner.

Our first day in AZ was only 109 degrees. Needless to say we hung out inside till around 8 when we had a nice little BBQ outside. The kids got up the next morning and were excited to play, once it was 9 in the a.m they were back inside for it was already 98 degrees.


We visited my grandma in Picacho she is looking good, but her spirits were down for she found out that day that grandpa was going to have to go into surgery to have his foot amputated. She was frightened for him and his health he is just about 90 years old.

Saturday was the big party that we were all waiting for. But before that night was to come there was alot of preparations, of which I was sadly not apart of for I had my own things going on too keep me busy. My Tia Ester, however, got an appointment for me to have a pedicure and it was her treat! I enjoyed myself very much :) Thank you mom for watching the kids for me. They were having a nice time over at my Tio Abel's house, splashing around in his "cool tub" it is a hot tub they fill with nice cool water in the Summer and enjoy warm water in the winter.

Finally, party time! This was the time to see all the family I hadn't seen yet, my there are alot of us! It was made apparent to us rather quickly that our youngest son doesn't care much for large crowds. He was screaming the moment we got there and was fine once we left, I forgot to grab the formula for his supper meal, he fell asleep in the car on the way to the house to get that. As soon as we entered the large room full of people there he began once again. I was exhausted. He did chill out once we got him fed. Not too long after he fell asleep in the car seat. Micah and Emma had a blast. M was sad that his grandma said he couldn't run around like the other kids, but he obeyed and once he learned he could have fun with out running around he was having the time of his life. Not only is Emma fond of the song Dancing Queen, she is quiet the little Dancing Queen herself. She was on the dance floor the whole time. Finally the both of them surrendered to the night and fell asleep in some chairs and slept soundly till the music ended!



Even after M was out for the night, E was still dancing away!

Finally, she couldn't take it any more. Aren't they sweet!


Sunday brought us the warmest weather yet...112 degrees! But, the kids didn't feel too hot, we headed over to the birthday girl's house were she has a nice big pool and the kids spent the whole time in there just loving it!