Our trip to Arizona (very picture heavy!!)

Okay so I'm a few months (almost a year) behind (again) so I'm playing catch up (again)!

Every year Eric's parents winter in Arizona so this year we decided to go down there and visit them. We brought our 4-wheelers and packed up and headed down there. It was so much fun and good to spend time with Leland and Sharon. We got some R&R in, 4-wheeled, ate, hunted for geodes and other rocks, and came home about 20 heavier than when we left! :)

Since Rohbi would be missing school, we got her school work and took it with us.

We decided to take a detour and go see the Hoover Dam since Rohbi and I hadn't seen it before. There was a huge line of cars waiting to go so we got stuck in a huge, long line.

I just thought this was interesting. It was just a bus that took people down to the dam and back instead of them having to take their cars.

We're getting closer! It was such a long drive then we get stuck at a railroad crossing and it took forever for the stupid train to cross!

Rohbi got a hold of the camera...

We finally got there and we were all tired. Eric is trying to rest but he wanted SO BADLY for me to take his picture :)...
then he yells at me for it :( (Okay that's not really how it went lol)

Rohbi already going rock collecting...she had to show Poppy what she found. Blooming cactus...this is just the beginning! They are so pretty!

On our way to Lake Havasu-houses right on the river

The water goes between the houses like streets! I thought it was pretty cool!

City of London (in Lake Havasu City)

Eric is telling Rohbi how to make a wish in a fountain

"Now once you make a wish, you cannot tell anyone what you wished for or it won't come true."

London Bridge Candle Factory. They make their own candles right there! It was so neat to see the process. We bought one for my mom and I wish I would have taken a picture of it so you could see what the finished product looks like! Really neat!!!

You can't tell but she is chasing after the pigeons :)

The London Bridge in the background

Correct me if I'm wrong but I guess they moved this bridge from England a piece at a time. The bricks were numbered.

Haha
We went on a boat ride over to the other side of Lake Havasu. There was a casino there and they dropped us off. Since we had Rohbi with us we couldn't go into the casino and walk around so we went into the restaurant and had some drinks and an appetizer and waited for the boat to come back.
Eric's wonderful parents

Geode hunting
An old mine

Moe's Cabin--People come up here and they bring something with them to leave in the cabin. There were some very interesting things...you will see below...
Moe's grave

"Moe...I am no Moe...May I rest in peace"

Yes that is underwear and bra. Just a few of the many things left there.

I don't even know what to say here. It is an arrow through a cactus but I don't quite know why...I just thought it was intersting!

Taking a break from a long ride...

Poor scared lizard

Eric trying to catch the poor scared lizard.

Going exploring

Always up for a chance to pose I guess this is where he wanted his final resting place to be. I thought this was kinda cool...

The way home. We loved all the red rock

I will catch up eventually

Just so you know, I am very behind on my blogging! I will get it caught up eventually :)

Thought I'd share

I follow a few blogs that are written by women who have lost babies. Some of them have come up with creative ways to write baby names and have offered to do it for other people to remember their babies. One writes the names in the sand, I had a lady write the boys' names on a pair of angel wings and she took a picture of them and put them on her blog and then mailed the angel wings to me. Another writes the names on river rocks and here is her blog where she wrote the boys' names on the rocks. I was pretty excited and thought I'd share!

Meet the new addition to our family...

A couple of weeks ago my parents adopted a new dog from a shelter in Wyoming. When we met her, we fell in love with her. We found out that she had been taken to the shelter with her sister "Princess" so we decided to call the shelter to see if they still had her. Let me back up a little way...my husband has wanted a dog but has been stubborn about it because "we have two cats". Since we have two cats, his excuse was that he felt that we didn't have room for a dog. So fast forward, we called the shelter and they still had Princess. The lady that ran the shelter said that she was coming through to go to Lava so we decided to meet her in Soda to look at the dog. She was so sweet! We decided to give her a try for a week and if we didn't like her, the lady said that we would be able to give her back. The first day we had her, I fell in love with her! She is the sweetest dog! I was a little concerned how she would do with children since I babysit in my home and we have Rohbi and her friends come over a lot. She LOVES kids! We haven't even had her for a week but we know we couldn't give her back now! Let me give you a clue as to how spoiled she is. We sleep with our door shut to keep the cats out. They used to be allowed to sleep in the bed but Eric decided that they took up too much room on the bed and they tend to fight over their places on the bed and wake us up. We decided that the dog was going to sleep in the room across the hall from us. When we put her in the kennel, Eric asked if we should put her in our room. So she ended up in the kennel in our room. Well some time after I fell asleep, Eric let her out. She slept on my side of the bed and farted all night! The next night she climbed up on the bed and that's where she stayed all night and every night since! She is a Stafford shire Bull Terrier. We decided that we didn't like the name Princess though so we re-named her Izzy. Anyway, we love her and thought we would share...