Our trip to AZ was awesome! My mom and brother came out to Texas a couple of days early to drive the kids and me to Arizona. We had so much fun! We ate lunch with the kids on Thursday and Friday, then headed out Friday evening. The kids were so excited to see Nanny and Unky Sussin at their schools. It was priceless :D We ate Thanksgiving lunch with Caitlyn on Thursday, and she just ate up all the extra attention. She made everyone laugh at one point when a little boy looked over at her and said, "Hi Caitlyn!" Nanny asked her who the boy was, and she replied, "I don't know! I've never seen him before in my life!" She cracks me up! Such a little turd bird already. We laughed about it the entire trip.
When we ate lunch with Cammy, one of his friends names was "Justin", and he couldn't believe that Cam's uncle was named "Justin", too. It was cute. Collin was excited to see us, too. He left all his friends and had us sit away from the group. He's so sweet :)
Friday night, we headed out. I drove for a little bit, then Justin took the reigns in Dallas and drove all night. We laughed and visited between all the times when I dozed off.
On Saturday, we finally arrived, and it was my youngest brother's birthday. I can't believe he's already 10! We hung out with him and caught up on sleep for a bit.
Sunday was by sister's birthday. She turned 24. We had a blast together the entire trip. We spent many late nights visiting, laughing, and looking at old pictures. During the day, we went hiking at Red Knoll's. Collin and Layton thought it was awesome, but Cammy and Caitlyn hated almost every minute of it. It was pretty scary in some spots, but we made it all the way to the top, so that was really cool. The view from the top is awesome! We went to Ft. Thomas and visited my Grandparents after our hike. After that, we went to my mom's house and chilled for a while.
Monday was fun. I think that was one of the days that we hung out with my mom. We played lots of wii. Cammy kicked all of our booties on wakeboarding. He is so good! He even beat Unky :) I think Justin had to go back to work for a couple days at this point, so he was probably back in Tempe.
Tuesday was fun, too. We played more video games and laughed and visited. I brought a bunch of old pictures from high school and from our Hawaii trip, so we stayed up late and looked at them and laughed at a bunch of them.
On Wednesday, my dad took the kids hiking. They had fun, then Wednesday evening my sister Erin and her husband, Josh, took me out to dinner at La Casita. It was delicious!
Thursday was Thanksgiving, and we spent it with my mom. Everything was so great! My step-dad teased us because be bought a big container of cresent rolls and another 5 bags of rolls for the meal, but we showed him...we gobbled them up! We played Mario Bros 3 all day. I think we saved the princess either 4 or 5 times. It was a hoot!
Friday was the Rhodes family Christmas party. It was the first one I have been able to attend in literally YEARS. It was cool to see everyone and catch up a little here and there with everyone.
Saturday was fun, too. My cousin is really into rock climbing and rappelling, so he made plans with my brother to meet up and rappel off the top of Red Knolls. My dad and I decided to tag along, so we (Dad, Erin, Me, Collin, Cam, Caitlyn, and Layton) headed up at around 9:30 to watch everyone. Well, everyone was running late, so we drove out to the old sandstone quarry behind Red Knolls and hiked around a little. On the way back, we stopped and checked and everyone had shown up. My cousin had everything rigged up and they were all ready to go.
Just to give you an idea of how high this was...My brother and my cousin are both at the top, and they are just over and just under 6 feet tall, respectively. My uncle Spencer is at the bottom on belay, and he's right at 6 feet tall, too. My brother ultimately chickened out, so my cousin turned to me and said, "your turn!" Before I knew it, I was hiking up this:
and getting strapped in. I watched my cousin, Leah, go down, then it was my turn. After some practice and some getting used of the equipment, it was time....
Kelsey (my cousin) really did a great job talking me over the edge. I almost chickened out, but the idea of going back down the trail sealed the deal for me, and down the rope I went. And then down we went again! Two more times :D It was such a rush!!!
After we finished at Red Knolls, we headed back to my Mom's and hung out and ate. We left Sunday morning at about 7:30, and made it home in the middle of the night on Sunday night/ Monday morning. It was a great trip :D
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