Thanksgiving in AZ

Ronnee and I flew to AZ the  week before Thanksgiving. When we got there we went to lunch with some of my fam and then we went out and saw my Grandpa Cutler who is living in AZ for the winter. Doesn’t Mickey look gorgeous in that pic!

Charlie and R dancing! They had a lot of fun together even if it didnt seem that way. After she got used to him hugging on her they were good to go.

While we were down in the valley we got to spend some time with Jess and Allyson! Thank you guys for letting us stay at your house! It is always fun to get the girls together. It will be even more fun when they are a little older and can play with each  other.

We also did some shopping and got to go to dinner with my good friend Ashley but we don’t have any pictures of that!  Except this one of cute little Charlie playing with Ronnee underneath the changing room door.

Then on Thursday morning Mick and Ronnee and I took a nap and  headed to Joe City to watch Sam and Grant wrestle. It was so fun to watch them because we never get to! That is one of the hard parts about living so far away, we have to miss watching the kids sporting events.

After the boys kicked some butt we headed home to SJ! At some point on Wednesday evening Ronnee started running a low fever and it progressively got worse. So the poor little thing was sick until Sunday. She had some kind of viral infection and she was just miserable so I glad it went away so she could play with her cousins and enjoy herself.  She had a lot of fun playing with the kids especially Ivy. They will have so much fun when they are older I am sure!

Ronnee was sick on this day so bath time wasn’t fun for her but Ivy sure had a good time! Later that same day Grandpa took Ivy, Ronnee, and I to the ranch to help Jake with the cows. While at the ranch she helped Grandpa drive, rode a bull (not a fan), and a horse(not a fan) and cried in the back of the truck! I hope next time we are there she wont be so sick so she will enjoy all of this stuff!

The girls also got to read stories with Grandma…

Sam thought it was a smart idea to wrestle Mickey and I! I am sure you could guess that we won! And only because we have some weight on him. That kid is so skinny now. He has really thinned out!

Ronnee tried riding a real horse again and she wasn’t as mad about it but probably because Aunt Hannah was with her.

But she would much rather be on the little fake horse.

There is nothing like an AZ sunset….

We got to watch some more wrestling in SJ on Tuesday… and Jake was the ref!

Here is a cute pic of all the puppies keeping warm.

Every year on the morning of Thanksgiving our family does a turkey trot. They have started having shirts and inviting whoever wants to run. It was pretty fun even though I didn’t really run and the weather wasn’t to bad.

Then Ronnee drove us home to eat a yummy dinner!

In true Isaacson tradition there was a lot of work being done around our house during the holiday breaks. This time they were working on the bunk house and it is coming together very nicely! Doesn’t Sam look so cute and grown up in this picture!

We also got to take some senior pics for Hannah. Here are a few of her and Ronnee, I haven’t looked through the rest of them. And  we took some cute family pics of Rachel’s family.

We had a really fun trip! It is always nice to go home and hang with the family. Now if only we could get Abe and Sally to show up one of these times so we can all be together. Thanks Mom and dad for everything!

And here is what our car looked like for our 15 hour drive home. We stayed in a hotel for the night and the pictures say enough! Ronnee loved every second of it!

* Side story: After this trip it made me appreciate having such a big family! While I was in SJ, I had a miscarriage and I think that it would have been a whole lot harder for me to handle if I wasn’t at home with all of my sisters and my mother! I am not sure what I would have done with out them and all the distractions that come with getting such a big group together!!  Thank you Mom for having so many kids! I LOVE IT!!!