Candace and Cody: We're back

We made it back from Arizona late Sunday night. We had the BEST time visiting with friends and doing lot's of fun things. We stayed with Cody at his hotel for the first two nights and then we stayed with some friends in our old ward there that have the entire upstairs of their house empty, so we all got our own rooms and beds to sleep in. It was great. We ate great food and had tons of fun. On Friday, my friend Brooke, came to get me and the kids at our hotel and take us back to Surprise. Yes, that is the name of the city we use to live in right outside of Phoenix. We swam at the hotel pool first and then made the hour trek there. We ate dinner at her house that night and then headed off to a ward Elder's Quorum party. We came at the right time...we got to visit with lot's of old friends. Later that night I went on a spur of the moment run to Red Robin with some of my old girlfriends to get dessert and talk. I haven't gone out with girls like that since just before we moved from Arizona. On Saturday we went to see old neighbors and then after taking much needed naps, had a big pool party at the house we were staying at. We had about 25 people there. Then we ate dinner with some friends later that night. We went to church on Sunday....just Sacrament meeting since we had to travel back home. We felt like we were back at home again. We were able to see many people from our old ward. We had to leave abruptly afterwards since Blake blew out of his diaper all over the gym floor...that was definitley not a fun one to clean up. Now we are home...I'm not that excited about it, but we only have 5 weeks left. Here are a few pictures from our trip.

Eating dinner at Red Robin with our old neighbors. They are the best!

Blake relaxing at the hotel.

Every time we got into the car, Blake was asleep in two seconds. The heat and all the running around wore him out.

Visiting our neighbors at their house. We lived next door. A year before we left we put in our backyard ourselves. We took really good care of it and hoped the new owner would too. Well, needless to say, there are weeds covering the entire backyard that are twice as tall as I am! The grass is dead and the place looks horrible. The only reason the front yard looks good is because the HOA takes care of it.