Spring Break

Spring Break is always busy for us! We're grateful that we live in a warm sunny place because it means we always get lots of visitors in the Spring looking to escape from the cold...and we LOVE having people come stay!!!

First, the Murray's from Rhode Island came to visit. It's been 3 whole years since we had last seen them. We went out to Rhode Island 2 summers in a row, but things have been crazy and we haven't seen them in way too long!! Their daughter and her family live in Arizona so they flew out to come visit and made a trip up here to visit us as well. It's ALWAYS so much fun when they're in town and they really have a special place in our kids' lives! Our kids have adopted them as grandparents and they love on our kids as their own. We went to Zion Canyon to the Imax and watched "Treasure of the Gods" and dinked around the half empty Springdale (tourist season isn't quite in full swing yet). We also went and visited the ghost town of Grafton on our way, which is always a cool thing for me...I'm a sucker for old stuff like that. The next day we drove over to Kanab and went to Moqui Cave and then up to the Sand Caves. As long as Yates and I have been together (almost 10 years now) I have never been to either one of those places!! It was a fun, touristy thing that you don't do unless you have people in town, so I was totally excited that we got to go. (P.S. I have to give ALL credit for the pictures to Momma Murray! I was lame again and took my camera but never did get any pictures, so these are all stolen off her blog.)













Then a couple days later my parents came down to visit for 10 days for THEIR Spring Break. We took Tucker out of school one day and went out to Warner Valley just south of Hurricane to just have a day-out trip. We took the trailer just in case the weather turned bad and for a place for Titan to take a nap. It was nice to have, but Titan ended up getting so upset at naptime that he threw up all over the pack-n-play and that was the end of that. He wasn't sick, he'd just worked himself up so bad NOT wanting to lay down!















Jared came up from Vegas one day just to hang out and we all went to eat at Irmita's. Dax was soooo funny! We all were just feeding the little kids off our plate or splitting the quesadilla we had for Tucker & McKinlee. Dax wasn't having any of it. He's a really good eater normally, but all he wanted while we were at Irmita's was the SALSA of all things! He did end up eating rice & beans and some other stuff. It was so funny though, he was just sipping the salsa right out of the little holding cup! We were laughing so hard and trying to make sure he kept his bib on and stayed clean! Then we came back and the two little boys (Titan & Dax) spilled some popcorn on the kitchen floor and kept giggling in there. When we went to check on them they were sucking it up OFF the floor! They'd suck up a piece and then just kneel up and giggle. What little hams!