Arizona

We took our first family trip out to Tucson and it was awesome!  With both the Carpenter's and the Richardson's there it was perfect.  Everything with these guys is just easy and fun.  Time zipped by and it felt like as soon as we got there we were packing up to head home.  The super warm weather was a wonderful reprieve from the uber cold winter we've been having back home.  Thanks for being such great hosts!

Luke was so excited to see PJ and she wasted no time showing him around her house,

The work that K&C have done to their home and yard is AMAZING.  My favorite part is the backyard.  Between the views and the landscape and the awesome "adjust the amount of sunshine to your liking" ramada lounge area, it is the best.

Note their toes touching.  They are so cute.

Desert dog walk

Look at all four of these kids interacting together!  Warms my heart.

Katie & Joe had us over for dinner one night, so we got a chance to see all the awesome work they've done to their house too.  Beautiful!  I very much admire the interior design and frankly, the impressive lack of clutter (especially compared to my house!) in both Katie and Kristin's houses.

Girls & kids head to the Desert Museum while the guys golf 18 holes

The guys had an awesome day together.  

We left the men home with the kids and us gals went out to a yummy dinner and concert date.

Pink Martini!!  The best.

My first time to Old Tucson and we all had a blast.  Luke said it was his favorite part of the trip.  We wasted no time getting an authentic stage coach tour of the whole place.

Yummy Mexican lunch.  I told Kristin I couldn't go to AZ and not eat Mexican food, so she found a way to squeeze it in for me:)

Last night in Tucson so we took advantage with a group dinner out to Oregano's

Before leaving on Tuesday we celebrated Christmas with K, C & PJ.

We had a bit of a delay getting back to Chicago, but the kids did great!

Phew!  Looks like we can carry her on after all.