Vacation!!

We were all so excited for our vacation to Arizona.  We were going to leave Friday morning and drive the whole way, but at the last minute we decided to leave Thursday evening and stay over in St. George.  It was so funny to watch Wyatt in the car.  He was falling asleep, but he would wake up enough to put a cracker in his mouth and then he would fall back to sleep.  It was hilarious!

We checked into our motel about 10:00 PM.  The kids were so excited.  The motel wasn't very nice, but they thought it was great.  Jonah and Caitlyn were especially excited to stay in a hotel.  The kids had fun looking at everything and jumping on the bed before we got them ready for bed.  We figured it would be a rough night and we were right!  We slept three to a bed.  We played musical beds for a while, but it ended up with me, Hallee and Jonah in one bed and Keith, Wyatt and Caitlyn in the other.  We found out that Wyatt and Hallee are wild sleepers.  They both laid sideways and kicked all of us.  Wyatt kicked Caitlyn right out of the bed at one point. 

I didn't sleep well at all.  I think I got a little over three hours of sleep.  Hallee woke up at 4:30 AM and I knew she would wake everyone up if I didn't get her out of there.  I grabbed a few things and took Hallee and we went to McDonalds.  They probably thought I had to flee with her in the middle of the night because I didn't get ready at all and Hallee was still in her pajamas.  We just sat there and ate breakfast and she played on the playground for a while.  After that we went back and they were still asleep so we walked up and down St. George Blvd for a while.  Finally around 7:30 AM they woke up and we were able to go inside.  We ate breakfast and headed out.  It was great to split up the drive.  Hallee slept for most of the way that day.  I'm sure it helped that she didn't hardly sleep that night.

Friday was Keith's birthday.  I told him that his present was me taking Hallee to McDonalds at 5 AM!  We were all so happy to get to Matt and Lori's.  Keith and Wyatt went to the car wash.  Wyatt loved it because he got to squirt the cars and got a huge balloon.

We were all so hot and couldn't wait to get in the pool.  These kids were so excited to see each other.

I was glad that Keith was able to relax and enjoy his birthday now that we were out of the car.

Wyatt was really good about staying on the stairs.  He is a very cautious child so we didn't have to worry about him too much.  He had fun playing with all of the toys.

Hallee had a lot of fun playing in the pool.  She liked to get in and out and play with all of the water toys.

When Wyatt is having fun or really happy he will just hug me and say, "I love you." 

We were all excited when Matt got home and came out and swam with us.  The boys loved jumping all over him.

We went to dinner at Sweet Tomatoes at Keith's request and then Lori had a cheesecake waiting for him.  We stayed in Arizona for ten days.  It was so much fun!  I can't believe how fast time flies while we are down there.  I have a ton of pictures so it is going to take a few posts!