For Thanksgiving (and my birthday) we headed to California and Arizona. We stayed at Gma and Gpa de Jong's for a couple of days and then drove to Phoenix to meet up with the rest of the family for T-day.
Syd has become obsessed with Mom and Dad's cell phones lately. She wants to play with them all the time. I think they're fun too. We got to play with them a lot on the trip while Mom and Dad packed, while we waited to a delayed plane at the airport, on the plane, and in the car ride to AZ. Mom was almost out of data by the time we got home.
Sydney was so tired on the plane, and slept almost the entire flight--on the floor at Mom and Dad's feet! That did not look comfortable.
We were the last ones off the plane in California and the pilot let me and Syd look in the cockpit and sit in the pilot's seats! How cool is that???!!!
I was so excited the night before we left that I didn't go to bed until after 10! And I was still excited all through our traveling the next day. But then I guess my adrenaline ran out, cuz I totally crashed during the hour drive from the airport to Gma and Gpa's house.
At Gma and Gpa de Jong's we played at the Children's Museum which is so fun. Notice that we're all sporting summer clothes. We were loving the 80 degree weather and sunshine.
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| They had a big grassy field outside the museum. You certainly won't see that in Seattle. |
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When we got to Aunt Kari's house in Phoenix, we decided to take the dogs for a walk and head to a park since it was soooo nice outside.
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| The dog actually walked me most of the time. |
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| Dad convinced me to go down this slide. It was not very fun. |
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| Syd and I were supposed to hold hands in front of the sunset. She just wanted to run circles around me. |
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| I love my Mom. |
That night we roasted marshmallows in the backyard and the next morning we went swimming in the hot tub!
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| That's Aunt Selina (Uncle Mark's wife) with Dad. |
On Thanksgiving morning (my birthday!) we took some informal family pics. The lighting was bad everywhere because the sun was too bright and the shade was too dark. We decided we could fix most things with photoshop and just started posing. We managed to get a couple of good ones with a lot of weird ones.
And here's Grandma with her girls:
I wonder why we didn't take one of the boys? Oh, yeah, cuz I was already off an running.
It was such a fun trip. And Sydney even got used to the dogs while we were there. She used to cry if a dog came within a foot of her. But by the time we left, she would run up to the dogs, give them a quick pat, and then run away. (Maybe now Mom and and Dad will let me have a dog.)
Of course, I LOVE the dogs at Aunt Kari's house. I shared my Ninja Turtles with Riley.
And my new best pal is Dakota.
Aunt Kari is coming to visit us next week again. Can't wait! And then Gma and Gpa are coming up for Christmas! I love my family.
