Our week in Arizona

We had a marvelous time on our trip down to Az to visit my folks. The kids and I headed down there for a week, and had lots of outings and adventures while we were there. We drove down, stopping through St. George to visit a friend on the way.

While there, we visited Camp Verde - a town about an hour away from my parent's house - my family has a membership to this place called Thousand Trails. It's like a camp community, they are all over, and our family has gone to them since I can remember. The kids had a great time swimming, of course, as well as playing on their playgrounds and in their family centers, playing pool and games.

Jenna loved the pool especially, and squealed with delight each time she would slap the water!

She also enjoyed sitting in the shade after :)
Derek always loves sunbathing. He did have some fun jumping in from the side to Grandma, over and over again - Thanks mom!

Jenna at the park :)

Hailey and Derek setting out on a trek up the driveway from my parent's house. Derek LOVED his walking sticks. My dad has a hiking stick, and so I think that's what spawned his interest. It was cute to see him trying to walk with it. Hailey was so great to take Derek out in search of lizards or chipmunks.

Grandpa took the kids to the fish hatchery

... and to the oldest standing school house in Arizona ( just up the street in Strawberry)

The coolest place we went was to Fossil Creek. It was very nearby my parent's house, but seemed like this hidden oasis in the mountain valley. We got to this place and I couldn't believe how beautiful it was! There were two rope swings off a tree that was on the other side of the creek, Hailey & I had fun launching off of it. The water was COLD!!

This is a flash to a different spot - on the Verde river just down from my parents house. The kids both had fun splashing around.

Here's a better shot of fossil creek - it was SO lovely! We could see all the way to the bottom, and there were fish all over in it. Kinda creepy, but very cool!

Hailey at Fossil Creek. It was such a beautiful day!!

It was really nice to go down and spend time puttering around w/ my folks. It was a nice kick-off to summer :)