Trying to play catch up

Where has time gone? I don't think I ever get around to posting anything in January.  My family came into town for Christmas as usual.  We have 2 intense weeks of constant activities, but the kids love it and get along so well. By the end of it all we all feel like we need to take a few days off to just sit back and relax.  I guess that's what sending the kids back to school is good for. I don't have that many pictures,  which I always regret later, but here's what we've been up to.

We took our traditional family picture this year. I try to schedule this as one of our first activities to get the nightmare of shopping for clothes and trying to match everyone out of the way.

I love the shot of the granddaughters with my mom.

For Laura's birthday we took the kids to a obstacle course/trampoline place out in Mesa. The kids had a blast.

We went to the circus. It was most of the kids' first time. They really enjoyed the show although the adults struggled through it. This was an Italian family circus and it was a bit ammature for my liking. Still worth it seeing how excited and amazed they were by it.

After the circus we went to a park in Gilbert that had a Choo Choo train.

 

There was a whole lot of swimming. Only in Phoenix you can swim in December! 

We spent one day at McDonald farm in Scottsdale.  The kids enjoyed the petting zoo, horse rides, and other activities they had around the farm.

There is a gym near Cynthia's house that had open gym hours. Clarissa stayed the whole time on trampolines,  the boys on the other hand, loved running all over and getting to do pretty much every thing the gym offered. I still think their was the obstacle course.  It looks so fun I even get tempted to try it.

Probably one of my highlights from this whole vacation. We took the two older girls to the Gilbert temple to do baptisms. I look forward to these sacred milestone with my kids.

This was my parents last day in town. Camargo cousins were already gone so I took the kids to Build a Bear to spend some of their Christmas money. They really enjoyed the whole process but you can tell by the look on their faces that they were exhausted.