My sister and nephew came to visit for the last two weeks of July! They live in Kentucky with the rest of our families...a loooong way away. It was Micah's first flight and Jordan is not the biggest fan of flying, but they survived. I told her it was probably the worst time of year to come, but that also makes the flights the cheapest, you know. And I take that back...NOW would be the worst time of year to visit here...when the low at night is 90 and the high during the day is no less than 110. Yikes.
We didn't really have much "planned." We just showed them things around here where we live and made a short weekend trip to see the Grand Canyon. You can't be that close and not go see it, right?
So here are a few several pictures from their stay. I am behind on posting these, so I just thought I would throw them all on here at once. :) Sorry for the overload.
Here's Micah with my friend's daughter, Brooklyn. Micah turned 11 months while they were here and Brooklyn is 18 months.
He looks SO big to me in this picture. She brought this little chair thing that attaches to the table for him to sit at. His legs have gotten so long since I saw him at Christmas.
First time trying avocado. He made some faces, but I think he really liked it.
Happy baby playing on his truck from Cars. He was really good at keeping his hands at 10 and 2. :)
The only way he knew how to go was backwards, though.
I melt. This guy was loving some nephew time! He would come home from work everyday and scoop him up and play with him. Micah was loving it too.
We HAD to take some bath time pictures of course! Nathan even got his lesson on bathing a baby and did it by himself!
We drove to the far east valley to see this ghost town called Dutchman's---something. It's near a lake where lots of people take their boats and it's also near the Apache Trail that we explored when my mom and Simon were here in May.
One weekend, we drove up to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. The breathtaking views are always fun to see, but the next time we go, I think we are going to do some of the hiking trails.
On the drive back south, we stopped in Sedona to see some of the red rock formations and the "Chapel on the Hill". The chapel was just closing at the time, so we were only up there for a few minutes before being kicked out.
The kid doesn't need toys, just give him a remote!
I think this was from the night we were all dressed and ready to go to the pool and as soon as we backed the car out of the garage, it started getting extremely windy and it had started to rain. It was only somewhat cloudy, so we decided to keep on going to the pool, which is only like a mile away, and wait out the rain. By the time we got to the pool, the outside temperature had dropped from 112 to 76 degrees. I haven't seen my car say 76 degrees since, ummmmm December maybe? haha It was really freaky. It ended up being a huge monsoon rain that lasted longer than normal, so we went back home. It thundered and lightening'ed the rest of the night.
One of the successful trips to the pool.
Some of these pictures were taken on my phone, so they are kind of fuzzy.
Hanging out at Five Guys with us. Jordan had never had Five Guys!
We were keeping my friend's dog, Nordy again that weekend. Micah didn't play with her too much, so the time he did, I snapped this picture. She was a good sport too.
He's got the fake cough down pat.
Poor guy had to ride in a pink car seat for two weeks. We had borrowed this from some friends so they wouldn't have to travel with one. I thought he was cute, falling asleep holding his foot. He's only in a dipe because we were coming back from the pool and knew he would fall asleep, so we took off the wet clothes and put on a dry dipe. (I know, I know...that plastic piece that holds the two straps together is too low...)
We went to PF Changs (my favorite) for my birthday dinner! It was July 25th, which was a Monday (booo), but hubs still took us to dinner. We got some free lettuce wraps!
He was loving this mini-man chair at a consignment store.
Jordan and I went to an Indian place for lunch one day. Hubs despises Indian food, so it was my chance to go! haha I thought Micah looked like a cute little lifeguard.
This was his first hotel stay. He was NOT liking it too much. We meant to leave around 7am that day, but everyone was so tired from the night and being up at 5am for good...we all fell back asleep and didn't leave until 9:30. Whooops.
I wrapped him like a Masai Man and called him Joseph. hahaha
Saying his goodbyes on their last morning.
At the airport, ready to head back home. We kept him awake during his usual morning nap time, assuming he would sleep on the 3.5 hour plan ride home. I later found out he only slept 20 minutes during take-off. Crazy boy!
Bye Jordan and Micah! See y'all soon.
