Fall Break

I love Fall Break!  Two weeks of sleeping in and playing with my kids.  It always seems to go by fast but we also tend to pack a lot into those 2 weeks.  This year we were lucky enough to go away for a week...not with hubby unfortunately.  We have not been to my sister's in Arizona for years and so when her last son chose to get married at the start of the break, we jumped at the chance to go.  At first it was just going to be me flying down, but then realized that the girls wanted and needed a vacation too, so I was going to drive them down...something I didn't want to do without my man since it is a 13 hour drive.  So when a fabulous sale started at Southwest Airlines, I thought I would just check it out...not expecting anything good.  But was pleasantly surprised to find cheap tickets for all of us.  I couldn't pass it up and the girls were super excited when I told them we were flying.  K was the most thrilled as she has never been on an airplane before...yes she is very deprived, but being the last child, it has always been too expensive to fly 6 of us anywhere.  J has only been on a plane twice...at 6 months and again at a year.  The other 2 kids have been several times cuz it was cheap when they were little.  So I was happy knowing that it would be faster and cheaper to fly than to drive....believe it or not. The only bad part was that the cheap tickets were for late night so K wouldn't be able to see out at the scenery.  But that didn't stop the enthusiasm.

We had plenty of time for drawing before getting on the plane

K was so excited until the plane actually took off and then the tears began to flow as she got scared.  But it all changed once she got in the air and realized it was pretty fun.

We were an hour late leaving Denver and with the time change in AZ, that put us in after midnight. Jeff and Sarah were late too and got in the same time....what luck.  By the time we got to my sister's and situated it was well past 1:30 (2:30 Denver time) and most of us had been up since at least 6am the day before....we were bushed, especially since we needed to be up and gone by 9 the next morning.  But we were just so excited to be there and to see all the cousins and family.....the house was overflowing with people but not one had to sleep on the hard floor....15 people, with a set of grandparents at a nearby hotel.

We are set for a fun filled week with family!