We had wanted to fly to AZ before Tristan turned two and we had to actually pay for him to fly, but it just didn't happen but we decided to go anyways and make it a road trip to visit the Cox's. We drove to St. George and stayed overnight with Ryan's grandparents. The next morning we were on our way. We stopped in Vegas for lunch and then some kind of time warp happened and we just couldn't seem to get out of there! I won't go into details but some sort of combination of getting off a bad exit for gas, our gps re-routing to avoid traffic thru a national recreation park (Lake Mead) which of course was super busy on a sunny sunday afternoon, stopping at the Hoover Dam, feeding Ivory, another traffic delay, that instead of arriving at Annaliese's house around 4 as we had planned it was more like 7:30 and I don't think we could have handled one more minute in the car. Luckily that was the only day of our trip that wasn't super fun.
Hoover Dam - Tristan walked up to the dam and stuck his head in between the railing and roared, that was his reaction to the Hoover Dam.
St. Patrick's Day hike and hanging out at the park.
Thanks to Annaliese offering to babysit we got to go out one night to a really fun with super good food mexican restaurant, it was awesome..... And if you have to have a 3rd wheel on your date this one's about as cute and good natured as they come!
We went to the train park in Scottsdale and it was really cool! The weather was perfect, and Tristan loved the choo-choos's but the carousel ride there was the biggest hit for him.
THis pic (below) is actually from a different park but I didn't get one of us riding the train at the actual train park. But this park near Annaliese's house was a pretty good one too!
Ivory got her toe nails painted for the first time and it reminded me of when we painted Addie's toenails when she was a baby and that must have been like 5 years ago, man time flies! We also had a fun girl's night going to the AZ museum of art
It might not look like it in this picture but Tristan loved hanging out with his cousins!
On our way back we stopped in Vegas for a night and it was super fun! Tristan loved swimming at the hotel pool and we did our usual going to the Bellagio and seeing the Gardens and fountains!
Side-note, I realized on the way to Vegas that about 8 years ago I went with this guy I liked to St. George and Vegas in March during his spring break and I thought that trip was either going to make us or break us and its crazy that 8 years later in March during spring break we were there again, married with our two kids, aww how sweet!:)
In St. George we went to a new children' s musuem there and it was so cool for kids! Tristan loved the costumes and no one had to tell him what to do with a microphone!
