Our trip to Arizona...

Nadia and I went to visit friends up in Arizona for a couple days. It was beautiful there! We had a wonderful time and were sad to leave, five days just isn't long enough. Below are some slide shows from our adventures. I was so happy that Nadia did well on the plane ride to and from. She is such a little trooper. The first day or so was a little challenging with all the adjustments and changes to schedules, but she settled down and relaxed.

While there I took her swimming for the first time. She loved the pool and even put her head under the water without too much fuss. After about fifteen minutes in the pool she just looked at me, put her head down on my shoulder, then fell fast asleep (in the water). It was so cute I had Angela take a picture. We have a little swimmer on our hands.

We also took her to the movies for the first time. I figured since it was a kid movie if she made too much noise it wouldn't really distract the others in the audience. She did great for about a half hour then she got tired and slept peacefully the rest of the movie. Eva and Mallina had a blast. The movie was in 3-d so we all had to wear glasses to make it not be blurry... Eva wasn't too thrilled about the glasses but she didn't seem to mind the blurry show. She loved her popcorn. She took it home and ate more that night, then the next day and the next day. It was so adorable seeing her sit there with this huge bucket almost as big as her.

Monica came over to visit with Liahona and Levu. I was so excited to finally see them up close! They are so adorable. Lia is a little spitfire, she is on the go go go all the time. Levu is a chill baby. I loved it... it was fun to see Nadia interact with other babies. Lia kept trying to take Nadia's pacifier... and Nadia was kinda like "hmm what am I supposed to do???" it was funny. Then on Sunday when we went down to visit Monica at her house Nadia was ready for Lia. It was so hilarious. She was trying to hug her and ended up almost pulling Lia down. Hopefully next time they get together for a play date Nadia will be crawling or walking too...then they can really have fun together.

It was just a great trip overall... even with me ending up in the ER and having my eardrum rupture (that is a whole other story). I had a wonderful time catching up with Angela and seeing Mallina and Eva again! Nadia and I wanted to stay for at least a month... but reality is reality so we are home and Inoke is happy to see us again (we are happy to see him too).