Spring Break

Spring break started early for us. Instead of waiting for Isaac to get out of school on Friday (two days before Easter), we decided we needed as much time as possible for our road trip to Arizona. He had a game Wednesday night and then we packed up the car and left as soon as Shaun got off Thursday morning (the 28th). We arrived Thursday evening and then spent the next day relaxing and preparing for Maddox's Saturday night birthday party. The little guy turned two so of course we had to be there to help celebrate!

 

Sunday was Easter but, it was far from normal. Instead of church we all jumped in the car for another road trip down south. The last time we were in Bisbee was for my Grandmother's 90th birthday (Isaac was 14 months)... She turned 94 in January. The last time we saw her was in Phoenix when Blake was three months old... We were way overdue for a visit. The boys loved everything the little town had to offer. Bisbee sits on the Mexico/US border, has three street lights, one fast food restaurant, and lots of dirt! The boys could have stayed longer but, on Tuesday we headed back to Phoenix. We spent a few more days there and came back home on Friday (the 5th). The boys were done driving and, frankly, so were we!

 

 It was a good trip and holy moly there are a lot of pictures to prove it!

 

After Isaac's game but before we left for AZ, Ammah, Papa, aunties, Uncle, and significant others came over for dinner and an Easter egg hunt (since we wouldn't be with them on Easter). I would have gotten more pictures but our backyard is not picture worthy. Thanks for the Easter basket and all the goodies! 

Happy birthday, Maddox!

I can't show all the decor because it's going to be reused for Blake's 2nd birthday!

Our Happy Easter picture. Usually the church or rose bushes is our back drop and we're dressed in our Sunday best. However, this year it was scrubby clothes and Mexico's mountains.

 

The day after Easter... April 1st! ;)

 

Doesn't she look great for being 94!?!

Five of her nineteen great-grandchildren

(last year she became a great-great-grandmother)

Shaun bought Isaac a BB gun and on his first shot he hit the target.

We walked around down town Bisbee and the boys got to climb on the old train that I grew up playing on!

And then there's Parker... Just keepin' it real...

The boys did a lot of running in this big field. Notice the mine dumps in the distance.

Bisbee is an old mining town so we took Isaac to see the "pit."

 

 

My Uncle Donald is a world wide hunter so the boys got to enjoy his museum!

I've gotten word from the cousins that my boys may be the first lucky ones to get to take a picture ON the crocodile. ;) They each got to take home a pair of antlers (which are being kept out of their reach so that they don't turn into weapons).

Blake wanted his picture with every single animal. He even wanted a picture by the decorative, animal printed balls that sit on the coffee table. He snuggled with the polar bear and growled at the lion!

I'm shocked I got four good pictures of Parker facing the camera. He thought he was pretty funny when he told me to take a picture of him by the lion and then pretended he was trying to run away from it!

 

On the way back to Phoenix we stopped to get gas and food. We found a big grassy area for the boys to run. The best part was that a truck passed about every two minutes and everytime they would run to the road and get them to honk. This could have been the highlight of the whole trip!