Catchin' Up

Well, let's see it's Friday and I'm long overdue for a post to my blog! Let's see if I can fill you in on the things we have been doing since our adventure to the Grand Canyon. On Tuesday Uncle Jim took Steve, Ethan, Tyler, and Adams back out to the camp to do some more pheasant hunting. Steve and Ethan had a great time getting six birds between the two of them! Tyler and Adams were having some fun of their own! Adams is always wanting to be a cowboy whenever he gets the chance!!

While the boys were off chasing birds, the girls were wandering around the mall in Prescott. We were looking for just a few things and then headed back to the house. It had warmed up a bit today so when we returned to the house all of our boys were in the yard with shirts off! You could definitely tell those are some Alaskan kids...it hits 50 degrees and it just feels hot!! They were all busy washing the motor home before we hit the road again tomorrow. The rest of the day was spent gathering up our things and putting stuff away again in themotor home. And then we all had to go sit one more time in the hot tub...our family of eight kind of fills up that hot tub!

Wednesday we finished gathering our things and doing those last loads of laundry. We said our goodbyes to Uncle Jim and Aunt Joan after lunch and then we headed down the road. Our destination was Anthem, Arizona, only about an hours drive from Prescott which is where we were staying. We met up with the Germain's in Anthem at a kids park and all of our kids were so excited to see each other after five weeks! Adams and lil' Tyler were hand in hand as we walked to the park...if only they would stay that sweet to each other all the time! The kids got to play, climb, run and chase for several hours until they were all tired out, I think, although we never seem to fully wear them out! Then we headed to Jen's brothers house to spend a couple days until we head out on Sunday for San Diego.

Our first several weeks in both California and Arizona have been very cold, but by Tuesday things started warming up and we are thoroughly enjoying the sunshine and warmth now. Last Sunday we woke to snow covering the ground at Uncle Jim and Aunt Joan's house...for some reason snow in Arizona just doesn't seem right! Thankfully we haven't had any frozen pipes in the motor home because we have had some very cold nights these last two weeks. Our first night in Prescott, AZ it got down to 5 degrees, but we stayed cozy and warm in our motor home! We are certainly looking forward to the warmer weather!