Spring Break Sunshine and FUN!

Well, April is almost over so let's start at the beginning. Spence is on his last year of Dental School and therefore his last Spring Break, so we WENT somewhere TOGETHER and stayed together the whole time. We don't do that very often--or at least we haven't since we started school...our trips are often separate.
We went to AZ to visit the Hilary, Ernesto, Evie, Elise, Elina and Kodi.




Snuggly TD and his Tia Hilary. Hilary often heard Thane before his parents heard him crying...he had his hardest time sleeping in AZ as he was cutting his front bottom teeth. Good thing we are family and she still loves us even when we don't sleep much! (We stayed up late nights playing games, talking, reading, and with TD not resting too well.)

The Botanical Gardens in Tempe were beautiful.
We saw the Chihuly exhibit. We love art!



Emma's wonder

Falling upon her neck accompanied by giggles...


Our beautiful butterfly!









They liked my almost white sweatshirt...


Teacher Emma showing us the chart to
identify the butterflies.


Spencer, tickeled by his animal magnetism
...or (insect magnetism)...



Hilary and "Lini Bini" as we call her


One of many Hummingbirds in AZ!

The ever present Giant Saguaro


Cousins in pink flower power


One tired and extremely drooley baby boy still
smiling...



We visited Angel Sweet-- yummiest ice cream shop ever and one of Grampa's favorite places.
Berry Forest, Dark Chocolate, Coconut and Mango were among our pleasurable poisons.




We also saw some pre-season baseball, Giants vs. Rangers and Emma got her first baseball at a ball park! (We thought she might get beaned by the ball as it sailed out over the stands about the same instant she was running ahead of us...we were fortunate that she didn't get hurt but took a game baseball home instead of a souvenir lump on her head.)
Thanks to Hilary and Ernesto for the fun runs in the sun, the great talks, yummy grilled foods and treats, visits to INandOUT and lots of fun with the E girls. We loved going golfing together, playing volleyball, getting creamed in hand and foot, and just being together. Thanks to the girls for sharing their grandma who visited while we were there too, and let us go on a double date. We took video of the dancing princesses as dress-up time was a daily necessity for the four girls. We'll need to take more pictures next time. Family really is the best of everything.