Trip to AZ over Memorial Day

We left the Wednesday before Memorial Day to drive to Arizona. Originally, we were going to stay in St. George the first night and continue on the next day. Instead, we thought we would just go on to Vegas since it's pretty much the half way point to Tucson. The hotel we stayed at was called South Point. The room was actually pretty big for the 40 dollars we spent and the bathroom was big enough that we just put the crib in there with Kelsie. We got up the next morning to leave at about 4:45 after Kelsie had woken up at 1:00, then 2:30 and finally at 4:45 when Mom had had enough.

On the way to Tucson, we stopped in to see Chad's brother Todd. We went swimming in their pool which Kelsie was not too keen on. If Chad swam away or went under water she would get super sad and say 'Dada? Dada?' So it took her a while to warm up to it. Her cousins (Rylee and Maddie) were really nice to her though and were trying to get her to say words. I hope Kels is just as outgoing as them one day. She loved it.

Chad and I brought our bikes down since we both have races coming up.  While we biked, Kels played outside with Gaines and Bella.

Monkey see.

Monkey do.

Kelsie's new best friend Cody. One morning she woke up, (at 5:30 of course) looked over at me, said 'Hi', and then 'Dada? Doggie? Papa Nelson?' Obviously realizing where we were still and excited to see her favorite peeps. She would follow Cody everywhere and get so excited when he came into the room. It almost makes me want to get a dog. Almost.

Chad with the kids and his bloody eye. I punched him and that's how he got it. Just kidding. He just woke up and saw that a blood vessel burst in his eye. Weird. 

Giving love to her cousin.

Always the ham trying to make people laugh.

Cute pigtails done by Aunt Heather. Another Aunt she'll sit still for.

Same face maybe?

Love those thighs. I like to squeeze them and make her laugh. Then I tell her she is boy crazy:)

Friday night, we went to a U of A baseball game. Saturday night, we got a babysitter and saw the new Pirates. Sunday afternoon, we saw Tyler and Liz in Sierra Vista. We finally got to check out there house and garden. Very nice but a very windy day. On Memorial Day, we visited some graves on the Bowman's side and then we came home for swimming and a BBQ.  We only missed the Wilkes but it's our fault. We were going to see them on our way back but then we realized that were weren't staying in Vegas on the way back but in St. George instead. It's probably good we didn't stop because it took us 9 hours to get to Utah. Kelsie was a big stinker until we got to Kingman and she fell asleep until a little passed Vegas. Sorry Wilkes'. Next time.

Our trip to Tucson was a lot of fun and we are glad we could spent time with the Nelson side of the family. But man, is it hot down there! Sheesh.