Our Trip to AZ (part 1 of many)

The kids and I got to go to Arizona for Christmas a week before Orrin was able to get off of school. I was a little worried to fly by myself with the boys again because last time was not so fun for me. They did amazingly!

We did miss having Orrin with us for a week (I think it was even harder on him) but it was nice to arrive early so that we were able to make it to some important events.




First we were able to make it to one of my brother Blake's orchestra concerts. He has become so good on the violin. The boys loved watching and listening to him play almost everyday we were there. He also received his Eagle while we were there.

I also got to attend my brother Scott's graduation from the Business College at ASU. It was a really nice day to spend with the family. We are so proud of him. We know how hard it is to go to school, work a full time job, raise a family at the same time. He is now applying to Law School and we are excited to see were he will be attending in the fall.

My brother Tyler and his wife Stormy also had their baby girl a few days before we arrive. We got to spend lots of time with her. We also found out that Bradley loves babies. Everytime they got the bottle out to feed her he was right there to do it. He will be a great big brother and lots of help to mom.

Picking a Christmas Tree

We has such a fun time last year we decided to go back to Christmas Mountain this year to pick out our Christmas tree. It was the most perfect day (sunny). We were so excited to see some snow too!

We picked out our tree pretty fast and spent the rest of the time having snow fights.

We had fun on our tracker ride and really enjoyed our hot cocoa at the end of our trip.

We decorated the tree that night and the boys helped the whole time. They thought it was the funnest thing. Brad even had so much fun, everyday he would take off the ornaments and replace them.