Arizona Thanksgiving

We spent a week in Arizona visiting Grammie, Grampa, Abbey, and Andy for Thanksgiving.  We enjoyed spending time with everyone and had a wonderful trip!  Grammie made a delicious Thanksgiving dinner and the kids immediately loved being around Aunt Abbey and Uncle Andy.  Following tradition, there was a Thanksgiving football game in the back yard....Ben and Abbey against Grampa and Andy.  There was a lot of soccer played too.  Ben's still got it when it comes to soccer - he and Tyler swept the series against a strong team in Abbey and Andy.

Ben and I took 2 side trips while Grammie and Grampa babysat for us.  First, we drove down to Tombstone and spent the night in Tucson.  Later, we drove to Sedona.....a truly beautiful place.  While in AZ we saw a coyote at Grammie's house, a javelina at our hotel in Tucson, and a couple roadrunners while driving.  The kids did well on our flights.....Tyler loved looking out the window and using the "airplane potty". Bailey Beth got excited when she felt the speed of taking off and she enjoyed playing peek-a-boo through the seats with other passengers (luckily we were around kid friendly passengers).  Here are some of our favorite photos from our fun trip:

 Tombstone - Main Street

Earp brothers gearing up for a gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Hilton El Conquistador......a stunning resort

natural landscape outside our patio

nice saguaro cactus!

prairie dogs at Arizona Sonora Desert Museum

Bighorn sheep

taken from our car window while driving through Saguaro National Park

Montezuma Castle National Monument......cliff-dwelling ruins

this is a model showing the structure of the inside of the "castle" and how it might have been used

I'm standing in a room from another castle that was excavated

Sedona, AZ from the airport vortex overlook

Sedona Rouge - a lovely hotel

view of Sedona from Red Rock Road......Cathedral Rock is just to the right of us

hiking through Fay Canyon

Bell Rock

Snoopy Rock.....it looks like he's laying on top of his dog house - nose pointed up on left, then you see his tummy and feet on the right

Chapel of the Holy Cross

 

 Grammie brought us to a fancy playground!

flying home on the airplane