Phoenix Visit

Christmas afternoon we all loaded up into the van and headed out to Phoenix. My baby sister Savanna and her family and George's sister Tina and her family both live there. As a bonus Vickie and Mark were there from Michigan also. Vickie (George's mom) has been staying with Tina and her husband Brett tending thier new baby, Addison. She will be leaving soon so we figuered that we had better take advantage of everyone being so close and get a visit in! We ran into some nasty weather on our way down, wind and rain right out of Mesquite Nevada, and snow right about Kingman Arizona, so we didn't arrive until about 1 am. YUCK!!! Long trip, but well worth it! We hung out with Savanna and Jocelynn our first day, playing with Jocey's new toys and making a trip to the park. Later we got to visit with Tori after work and fit a visit to the Mesa Temple in. The lights and nativity displays were amazing. On Saturday we went to Brett and Tina's and spent the day with George's family, I helped Vickie with a new blog and loved on baby Addison while everyone else had a hayday playing on the kids's new Wii, and Rock Band on Brett's PS2. It was great to be able to spend time with everyone, although the time flew by so quickly. We took our time getting on the road on Sunday and didn't leave until about 1:00pm. Thinking that we would make a stop in Vegas and see Mike (George's brother) for a couple of hours and still make it home by 10. Well, we did make it home at about 10:00 pm, but our visit with Mike was limited to about 10 minutes. George decided that we should take the Hoover Dam route and we were priveliged enough to be one of thousands that partook in about a 2 1/2 hour traffic jam! Oh yes, it took us 2 1/2 hours to drive about 6 miles. Thankfully I had a good book with me, the kids had the dvd player, and George and the puppies were plain patient! It was a long trip once again... as we were leaving Savanna says, "come back soon". I am hoping to see them really soon, I am also hoping that the trip is alot shorter!