On our way. . .

Since we had to catch a flight Monday morning in Raleigh to fly to Phoenix we left Sunday evening and stayed in a hotel.  It was an old Marriott but kind of fun.  McKenna got to sleep in a chair with an ottoman.  She was so excited.  The other girls got to sleep in a murphy bed.  They thought that was awesome.

Here's our room.  The kitchenette was to the right, up the stairs was our room and a bathroom (it was just a loft) and then the murphy bed that Maya is in and a bathroom around the coerner from there.  They also looked like apartments from the outside. 

 We decided to take a little longer flight just to be able to fly jetBlue.  And I might say it was quite worth it.  The girls did great.  We brought games to play and since jetblue has DirectTV that helped pass the time as well.  Alexa found the show "All in the Family" and thought it was so funny.

 It was a LOOOOONG day.  We got in about 10:30 at night which to us was 1:30am.  Here they are the next morning.  Tuesday morning we met my parents for breakfast and as you can see from the picture some of us were still a little tired. 

 Tim made all of our arrangements for this trip and he did a great job.  It helped keep our mind off of leaving loved ones behind. On Tuesday after breakfast with my parents we came back and I had to take a nap.  (I was exhausted.  I think after 3 months of being a single mom, trying to sell our house, packing up, painting, and cleaning my body was done.)  Tim worked out to stay at his parents time share in Palm Dessert, CA.  It was only a few hours from Phoenix.  It was such a nice resort.  The girls and I went swimming while Tim went grocery shopping and cooked us this fabulous meal - bbq'd ribs, grilled bread and pineapple and salad.  It was hot but becuase it was so dry we totally enjoyed sitting outside.  It felt so good without humidity. 

Wednesday we got back in the car and traveled another couple of hours and headed to Abuela and Grump's (g'ma and g'pa Van Buskirk's) house.  We hung out and lucky for us the girls cousin's, Noah and Caleb were staying their for a few days also.  They had a great time.  More to come. . .