We had the privilege of heading down to Phoenix for almost a whole week the week of Thanksgiving.
We started off at the Scottsdale Links Diamond Time Share (thanks to my mom and dad!!) for two nights!
We enjoyed dinner with some of our friends that live in Tempe our first night. They came over to our place and we made dinner and caught up on life!
We started off the next morning with Wildflower for breakfast!
Then played at the park that was at the resort!
After nap time, we went swimming for a little bit and then watched Madagascar with popcorn that night!
From there, we headed toward Mesa for an early Thanksgiving celebration with my family.
1st stop - ZOO! And my mom and 3 other families joined in on the fun too!
(we randomly ran into Celeste, Asher, and Aria Olmstead at the zoo and Ember got to milk the cow with Asher)
That night, we had a delicious ham dinner to celebrate Thanksgiving with our family! (We missed the Brucks this year!!)
On Thanksgiving morning, we all Facetimed with the Brucks and then headed over to the Perry's house where I got to see some of my best friends and their kids!
So great catching up with these girls!!
Then onto Verrado where we celebrated Thanksgiving dinner with Dustin's family!
Corbin and Ember played and played the whole time. They just chased each other around and pushed each other in cars or on bikes. They had a blast!
Evans family pictures!
The next morning, we all took a walk to a restaurant in Verrado and had a delicious breakfast! Ember got to ride in the car on the walk.
Finally, we headed back to Scottsdale and stayed in the Hilton Garden Inn for 2 more nights.
It was right next to Old Town Scottsdale which was nice! We walked there for dinner, breakfast, and then breakfast again!
Pool time!! It was surprisingly warm!
Our last night before heading home, we drove to the Scottsdale Quarter for dinner at Zinburger.... and I am sure glad we did! They were having a Santa Clause Social and there were free pictures with Santa, live holiday music, and a tree lighting! It was perfect!
(We didn't get a picture with Santa because we thought Ember would be terrified)
And we finished the night off right with another bag of popcorn! This little one LOVES popcorn :)
We had a great trip getting to see lots of family and friends and then also getting to relax some too! We truly have to much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving and all year round! God is so good!
What a fun week! Looks like a lot of fun memories and great time with family! Thanks so much for taking time to see us! We were so excited to see you all! Looking forward to another visit in February!
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful week "away"! Sounds like lots of good food was eaten! YUM!! One of my favorite parts of being away! The zoo with friends...how great! Seeing all kinds of friends and family! It was a packed fill week!
ReplyDeleteLOVE the picture of Ember in front of the hotel(?) with her sweet smile and shoulder shrug! Just adorable! And her outfit too! :)
Scottsdale looked beautiful with all the Christmas decorations! Glad you got to experience it all!
I must say, Ember does so very good at smiling when being ask to for a picture! She is looking in smiling in so many, if not all of the pictures! What a blessing that is!! :)