I always know that when Kelsey hides and doesn't want to come out that she's in trouble. This time she had gotten into Grandma's lipstick - "I'm beautiful, Mommy!"
They had the kids race around once then leat them run/walk for 15 minutes.
Collin did pretty good with the race - coming in close to the front
Even Kelsey got into it. She did an entire lap with Collin then half a lap with me - until she wanted to be carried...
It was early morning when I got up to go to the bathroom. While there I heard Kelsey yell, "Mom, I need to go potty!" I told Chad to get her then later I heard him go back to bed... When I got up to see her she was sitting on the potty reading her book...
I don't know where she got the weird idea to just sit and read a book all night??? Needless to say I finally had to drag her off the toilet and put her back to bed at about 3:45am - just go back to sleep!
Kelsey in fearless
Because of the wind the pool was closed (have you ever heard that one before??) so my kids jacuzzied in the bathtub
You really need to see the video that goes along with this, "Oh no, don't eat my eyes!" "Quite, you're not a real bunny - you're just chocolate!"
We ate Easter dinner over at Sharon's brother-in-law, Steve's house. My kids jumped right in with all the other cousins...
Kelsey always tells Chad, "Put me in the sky!"
Collin & Max continues to play and play...
Anticipation
I got Kelsey a Tinkerbell doll
and some princess and Tinkerbell pj's
Sharon gave her 2 new princess dolls - she loves them! She had been playing Barbies with the girls all week so now she's pro - too bad her mom never played Barbies growing up...
When we talked about going to Arizona to visit Sharon Collin talked about going to see the Grand Canyon - so of course, we did...
Just as soon as we pulled up Kelsey fell asleep so Collin and I did a little recon while she slept in the car with Chad
We went up to the Watch Tower. It looks hundreds of years old but it was built in the 1930's. Super cool look out
Collin's so patient for mom's pictures
There's 4 flights of stairs to climb to reach the top. But there's windows all the way up
A view from level 3 to Collin on level 1
We finally went and got Dad and Kelsey and did it all again (my legs were like spaghetti)
Collin was most impressed with the big hole in the earth
We got Collin's new friends from Pennsylvania to take our picture. Chad and I wanted a picture of just us but it was so windy and not rail where we were so there was no way we were letting go of Kelsey!
So windy!
We stopped again really quick and got someone to take our picture while the kids sat in the car.
We took a side trip to find the village - instead we found about a dozen elk
and about 20 deer - quite the adventure!
We rarely get family pictures but we've been really lucky lately to get some - thanks to tripods, and strangers willing to take our pictures
Father and son
Brother and sister
Father and daughter
The waves were a little strong so Collin just dug for sand crabs. He found some pretty big ones - but mom is so mean and didn't let him keep them, "But Mom, we have salt at home - we can make salt water!"
Kelsey loves swinging, "Higher!" After this Chad had her in the big-kid swings when I guess she just decided to let go. As soon as I saw her fall backwards I screamed! She flipped all the way around and landed on her stomach, face down in the sand. The most amazing thing though was that she didn't even cry! She just brushed off the sand and walked over to me. Collin thought it was pretty cool and wanted to try it too - no way! Kelsey was so lucky she wasn't hurt.
You know no vacation is complete without finding at least one dinosaur museum to go to. This one was pretty cool (they had an entire wing devoted to animal poop - perfect for boys)
Max and Collin looking through a meteor that landed in Tucson
They had this really cool dinosaur mountain, complete with stream that floods. The T-rex actually moves little bit - just enough for 2 little boys to get really nervous that it might actually be coming to life :) (Oh, how I love messing with them :P )
We had to go upstairs for a picture with the apatasaurus
Outside they had a place where you can pan for gold!
I told Collin about his great-great-great grandfather, Henry Meyring, who went to Colorado to be a carpenter. When the job dried up he figured he would prospect for gold. He asked a couple of miners where he should dig. Laughing at him, they told him to dig over by that tree over there... So Henry did - and found one of the richest gold mines in the state! 
They had a fun time trying out all the hands on puzzles and experiments that they had around the museum
Max & Collin served a little time in the Mesa Jail
I did eventually let them out for good behavior (and because there were no locks on the doors - darn it!)
They had a bunch of Native American art and artifacts but Collin wasn't as intrested - it's not old enough
Collin had somehow talked me into getting him another stuffed animal! He decided that Arizona is the capital of the push-over (though he uses some other weird term for my giving into him again and again here) and bagels - I don't think the two things are related but that's how he says it.
