AZ

On the plane ride to AZ
Tessa and Paxton's eating arrangements

One of our escapes was to get pedicures. It was my first ever! Pathetic, I know! Tiffani could not believe it. I think I am hooked now!
This teeter-totter looked so fun at Tiffani's mom's house, I just had to try!
Seth and Lyric giving it a try
The assembly line bathing process!
They both had their elephant towels they loved

Just being silly kids
These two are the quiet ones out of their siblings! Tessa is about five months older then Paxton.
One evening, they helped bake and decorate Easter cupcakes, of which I had no problem eating WAY too many of!

Tiffani gave Paxton his first "snip" I call it a snip, because it was not even enough hair to consider a real haricut. He had these two little horns on the side that were getting a little too wacky. It was the smallest amount of hair, but made him look so different! She didn't even touch the rest of his hair. I felt so sad, but it turned out really good!


His first hairdresser!
On our way to the car, back in Cali. My mom would have had great anxiety seeing me push this stroller and hold all seven thousand bags! It almost felt impossible, but I did it! Tiffani was SO NICE to park her car and help me into the airport in Arizona. I had the opportunity to miss my flight because the security there is so ridiculously insane! We were literally sprinting across the airport, but no such luck. I don't think I have ran like that since junior high! They were inspecting my pump and breast milk as though it was explosive liquid! I was rather irritated. Then, the lady at the ticket counter had the audacity to ask for Paxton's birth certificate because he looked two! Come on now, I know he is a big boy, but does he really look two!?!? He is eight months old, for Pete's sake! I told her, "Do you want me to take him out of the stroller so he can show you that he can't walk, let alone crawl? He doesn't even talk, besides a little babbling or mama and dada!" I was furious. She warned me that I needed to bring it next time or they would charge me for a ticket.

Lyric, Paxton, and I took a fun 6 day trip to Arizona last week. We went to visit my best friend, Tiffani, and her family. I was a little daring and flew out of an airport that was 2 1/2 hours away from my house. I paid $100 per ticket, rather than close to $300 just for one. So, even factoring in gas and parking, I saved money. This was Paxton's first plane ride and Lyric's tenth! They did very well.

We were greeted with the warm Arizona weather. It was in the eighties, which I know is not hot, just a little warm for February-March weather! The week was so much fun. The kids had so much fun together. Tiffani and I just kept laughing at the fact that we went from hanging out as punk teenagers, to hanging out with four children under four!

We ate lots of fun food, thanks to my list of places "I had to eat at because they are not in Cali!" Fuddruckers, Cafe Rio, Golden Spoon, and Schlotzsky's are just a few to name! Tiffani eats quite a bit healthier than me, so her body was in shock with all of the crap she was filling it with. Mine, on the other hand, was completely used to it!

Thanks to Tiffani's mom, sister-in-law, mother-in-law, and cousins, we were even lucky enough to sneak away from our kiddos a few times and do some shopping and pampering! The week went by way to fast and I was sad to leave, Lyric was too. She wanted Seth to come back to California with us.

Unfortunately, we did not get as many pictures as we would have liked. The camera I brought only held six pictures, I could not find the memory card. Tiff temporarily lost her camera for the first few days we were there. Oh well, we got some cute ones!