Our Arizona Trip

Sedona, Arizona.

When you think of Arizona landscape, Sedona is the perfect spot with all the cool rocks and awesome cacti. This is half way point on our drive to the Grand Canyon from Phoenix.

DJ, Andrew and Austin loved hanging out with their 3 cousins, Jake, Dylan, and Carter.

Uncle Pat took us to a river where we stopped to have lunch and see who could skip their rocks the farthest.

Grand Canyon Sunset

Made it to the Grand Canyon by late afternoon & it was freezing! Took a quick picture of the sunset before heading back to the hotel. The Canyon's amazing (hadn't been since I went with my family back in college). Dave and I had a blast taking our boys to see it for the first time.

Spent the day exploring the South Canyon from different viewpoints. Look at this crew at the back of the bus. Was glad to get back to Phoenix without losing one off the edge! This is in the a.m. - by the afternoon it's sunny, 'shorts & t-shirt' weather.

What trip would be complete without In & Out Burger! I believe we ate at 3 different In & Out locations during our 6 day trip to Arizona. Maybe it's part nostalgia of our Southern California college days, but.... they DO have yummy burgers!

Seattle Mariner Spring Training
Got within what Andrew called "spitting distance" to Ichiro, got some cool autographs... Eric Bedard being the 'biggest' - he was leaving the parking lot as we were leaving & was nice enough to roll down his window and give a few autographs. It was early spring training - the players practiced from 9-noon then called it a day... off to golf or whatever. Looks like a pretty sweet life! We left at noon, hit In & Out Burger (again).. ..DJ was tired of In & Out Burger so he walked to Chick Filet next door. Then to the airport to head back to Seattle! Thanks for a great Arizona trip Uncle Pat, Aunt Nikki and cousins! You guys showed us around Anthem & kept us super busy... parks, basketball, golf, rock-climbing at the community center & jumping on the backyard trampoline in our 'down-time'. We did a ton in 5 days! Dave even ran his own mini spring training camp with the boys.. taking advantage of the awesome weather and baseball fields that Sammamish, WA. doesn't have in the spring. We may have to make Arizona an annual trip!