OUR TRIP TO ARIZONA

9 REASONS NEVER TO TRAVEL WITH 3 KIDS: (in no particular order)

* 12 hours of : Don't touch me! and Austin's pulling my hair (Austin thought this was hilarious so it was hard to punish him), lots of screaming,whining, and of course..Aubree every 30 minutes: ARE WE THERE YET?

* I left my wallet on top of the car while I was getting gas and forgot about it. So now some homeless guy in Vegas is enjoying a great meal with my cash and photos of my kids I can't replace!

* At our hotel in Vegas the "door" that was covering up the air conditioner fell on Austin & smashed his toe! Hotel management came up and took a report and took pictures of his foot. We got a free room but Austin was miserable the rest of the day and his nail will probably fall off.

* 12 hours of news talk radio on the presidential campaign (McCain & Romney are neck and neck in case anyone wanted to know!)

* "I have to go potty" as I look outside my window at the never ending desert of dirt and bushes

* We took the wrong freeway when we were almost to my parents so that delayed us another 30 minutes. (When you have been in a car for 12 hours 30 minutes is a VERY long time!)

* Aubree & Austin got pink eye

* Austin's quart of milk was spilling all over the foot of the front seat & I didn't realize it until we got there. It drenched my brand new NON WATERPROOF purse!

* As we are driving back home into a snowstorm I hear David say "We need to move."

That was the worst of it. We actually had a really great time. The weather was gorgeous at a sunny 65! I was loving it and wanted to be outside all of the time. We went to the Phoenix Zoo which was great and probably one of the best zoo's I have been to (besides San Diego of course!) their was a merry go round and a huge play area for the kids that was a treehouse. Aubree & Addie had a ball climbing through everything & Austin explored dragging his blanket everywhere in the dirt. It was a great escape from being cooped up in the house. Then my family watched the kids so Dave and I could escape ourselves. We stayed at The Point Hilton Resort in Phoenix. David complained the whole time that it wasn't a Marriot. On the way back we stayed in Vegas at the Planet Hollywood Hotel (where Austin smashed his toe) we took the kids to the Fao Schwartz toy store which was 3 stories! We had dinner at Cheesecake Factory and walked around the mall. It was great spending time with family I haven't seen in awhile and getting away from the cold.