Ribs from the Bubba Keg

These were delicious ribs that Jason made on the Bubba Keg...and Ethan being silly!

Sedona

Not much to say about Sedona...but it is beautiful. We took a beautiful drive down from Flagstaff to Sedona and just enjoyed the scenery.

Had dinner and then drove home. It was a wonderful way to end an awesome vacation with the boys.

Hopefully we will have many more great vacations to share with all of you.

Lake Mary in Flagstaff

Jason took us to Lake Mary to show us where he used to fish while in college. Ethan was very disappointed that we didn't have a boat to go on the water with...sounds like we need to take a trip home to Grandpa Smith's house for some quality boating fun!!!

It is peaceful and beautiful there. We even looked around for some houses that were for sale...but nothing jumped out at us.

One day Jason would love to live there...but I am still on the fence.

Bearizona

Bearizona is also located in Williams, Arizona. This is a newly opened wildlife park where you are able to drive though the forest area and view these animals up close and personal.

Each animal has their own area with houses and feed storage containers right by the road. We were able to see all of the animals up close and talk to them. Your car windows are allowed to be open until you get to the bear section, of course...but who would want to leave your window open?

The bears like to play with your car and try to touch it. They tell you that you are able to stop your car and watch them but if they start to approach your car to start moving or you might have a bear on top of your car!! These bears are extremely playful and fun.

Some of the pictures are hard to see because of the windows being up and reflections. Pictures do not do this trip justice.

I also recommend this trip. The boys really enjoyed seeing the bears and all of the other animals.

Deer Farm - Petting Zoo

The third day road trip was to Williams, Flagstaff, and Sedona. This, of course, was the longest day trip this week. The boys did really well for being stuck in the car for so many hours and not running around. Thank god for portable DVD players and Disney movies or we might not have made the trip so successful.

In Williams they have a petting farm with tons of deer. They are vultures if you ask me! They tried to eat our shirts...since they had eaten all of our food we bought them. Crazy animals!! We even got to see Santa's reindeer. We had to explain to too little boys that this is where Santa's reindeer rest until Christmas time.

Ethan kept telling us that the deer really liked him and they are going to miss him. Silly boy!!! Thank goodness he didn't ask to bring one home.

Children's Museum of Phoenix

Our second day trip was to the Children's Museum of Phoenix. We all had a great time here and again there are a ton of things for the kids to do. They had just about anything a kid could want to do there. Just a few things they had are: a grocery store, kitchen, pizza oven, planting flowers, riding bikes, noodle forest, and arts & crafts.

Ethan and Brendan really enjoyed shopping at the grocery store and checking out at the register.

Lots of fun times!! Check out that climbing thing...boy did my muscles hurt the next day. Some of those tubes are very small...they want parents to climb up with the kids...but they don't make the tubes "parent" size though.

I highly recommend taking your children here.

Makutu's Island

This week we were on vacation and did a few day trips with the boys.

The first stop was to Makutu's Island in Chandler. There are a ton of fun things for kids to do there...and keep them busy.

We have never seen Brendan's little short legs run so fast before. He was running around with all the big kids and even found himself a girlfriend...although she didn't want anything to do with him. :-)

All in all they had a great time there and they want to go back again.

Bubba Keg

Welcome the newest member of our family...the Bubba Keg. We received this generous gift from Jason's mom and dad and have been cooking on it every night since. It is a wonderful thing because Jason has been cooking every night for the past two weeks.

We have cooked meat, pizzas, and vegetables and everything has turned out great.

Jason thinks he is a real manly man now! :-)