Road Trip!

Driving between Utah and Arizona isn't something of a new thing for me (and my fam), but you can never be sure how the drive is going to be - flat tires, windows shattering (seriously happened), traffic, gas, food, potty breaks, sleepy drivers all factor into being prepared for a "good" drive. When you add kids of any age into the mix it just amplifies all the factors -and some new ones - into a whole new level. Skylee does pretty good in the car and doesn't usually need too much entertainment when we drive around our area, but to drive 11-12 hours in a car you have to be prepared. Luckily she did great, plus bringing along an activity tray made it a whole lot easier (thanks Jen for lending it).

So the main reason we were even heading to AZ was to see one of my closest and long time friends, Adrian and her fam. Oh yeah and to do a little project - turn her patio into a playroom.

Luke's a little more use to dust and construction debris, not so for Stuart. With the use of ski goggles, face mask, shower hair cap and gardening gloves Stuart was ready to help Luke with more of the stucco removal.

Luke with the help of Stuart framed 2 walls, added insulation, sheetrocked the room, moved their current sliding door to the new exterior wall as well as move a window to the other new ext wall and installed new french doors where the sliding door was.

Not entirely finished but you get the idea of the finished product.

Meanwhile the kids had a great time just playing around and keeping themselves entertained. The kids got along so great it's too bad we don't live closer together. Kylie even told Skylee a bedtime story before saying goodnight.

The kids loved posing in front of the camera.

With Luke's part of the work done, on to having fun. The last few times we've gone to AZ we've headed over to Amazing Jake's. It's a little buffet of fun - pizza, salad, pasta, dessert, drinks, rides, games, tickets, bowling, and the list goes on. What's not to enjoy?

Going in circles tend to make Luke a bit sick, so I get to be the lucky one to go on the carousel - again and again. Skylee has to go on the girl horses (she determines their gender by color).

The tea cups were a fav by all 3.

Kylie wouldn't go on the frog hopper, but these 2 loved it!

Adrian (with her new baby, Kolby) and me watching the kids in the free area - of course the free area is also one of the kids' favorite things.

So on our drive home - which also went great - we stopped at the gas station which had this giant rocking chair. We just had to get a pic of Skylee in it.