The Marvelous McCreadies

The highlight of our lives is when the McCreadie's come to visit. It's like Christmas! (But it was Easter-- close enough.) Our kids go bananas & Curt & I REJOICE. We spent 10 wonderful days with them in the beginning of April. Here are some of our fun filled memories.


We watched general conference together the first weekend. We mostly stayed awake, but Sunday afternoon found me looking a little like this....

The adults went out on Saturday night to The Keg & had a great time. On Monday the McCreadie's spent a couple hours cleaning up our boat! Those kids sure know how to work & do it without complaint. Amazing. Then, thanks to the Gwilliams we were able to get passes to the Seville Country Club pool & we swam it up for the next few days.. Sue & I were baffled by the bikini model we encountered there. (No pictures of that unfortunately-- or should I say fortunately?) They also took in a couple of games downtown.

On Thursday we left the valley & headed up to Sedona to hike our favorite West Fork Trail in Oak Creek Canyon. We were not overly ambitious that day as Curt had hurt his back again, but we spent a good long while at the "slide rock" spot. We met some nice people (also from WA) who were looking for their kids. They finally found them & after talking for 15 minutes they asked Scott to take off his sunglasses & identified him as the ER doctor who had treated their son in the hospital just a couple weeks prior. Small world.

Ian really got the concept of slide rock when he slipped and fell in the water. Here are the kids drying out on the rocks.



Pregnant women can sleep anywhere can't they?

After the hike we went to DQ-- (tradition) & then drove on to Flagstaff to spend the night at the Drury Inn. Lovely place. Scott & the kids swam. We ate dinner at Granny's Closet which was just perfect for our small group of 13. Great salad bar & we nearly had the place to ourselves. In the morning we probably had the best free hotel breakfast on the planet.

Day 2 we drove up to the Grand Canyon. So many miles of trails, so little time. Or you could say, so many tired little kids, so little strollers-- dang it! (Other than our incredible trip to Havasupai as Laurels, I had not been there since I was about Eliza's age. My favorite memory of that trip being the little bag of shiny polished rocks I got as a souvenir. And a picture of me in a pretty cool periwinkle poncho.)

I think we would make a really nice blended family if we ever decided to just move in together. 2 moms, 2 dads, 3 girls & 6 boys. The offer stands.

Isaac's favorite part of the day was riding the bus between scenic lookouts. We wondered if we could just pay the driver to keep him & Markus on the bus all day.

Markus actually fell asleep standing up on the bus. That's a sign that it's time to leave.

We made it home at 10:30 that night, after nearly hitting a huge deer outside Flagstaff. The next day we had an egg hunt in the house because it was raining. I think the rain helped Sue & Scott to feel better about leaving. Although it didn't help us much, because we still miss them every day.