Sunday, July 09, 2006

Our Vacation, Part 3

Hello again. Figured I would finish up the trip for you. We left Thad's apartment the morning of Sun, June 18th. We headed to the Grand Canyon! Very exciting. I was there in the mid-80's and Michael had only seen it from the air. It was quite impressive to say the lease! We had such a good time, we were only there for a couple of hours, but it was amazing. The views are utterly unbelievable to me!!! These pictures kind of speak for themselves!!!


That night we headed to Williams, AZ for a night in a bed and breakfast, The Red Garter Inn. It is a saloon/bordello from the 1890's. It is an historic building now. We heard some interesting stories there from the now owner. It was all pretty interesting.


June 19th--our 7th wedding anniversary! Congrats to us. We left the bed and breakfast and spent a glorious 13 1/2 hours in the car on our way to Oklahoma City. It was a long drive that was made longer because of all the insane road construction, ugh. But we figured to push it to OKC and stay with family then stop at a hotel. So thanks to Kelly for letting us crash the night at your apartment. It was so wonderful to see you, it had been too long! (over 2 1/2 years too long!!!)

We got to St. Louis and back to our kiddos on June 20th. They were all more then excited to see their Daddy. Luke just hugged and hugged him, Kaden burst out into tears, he was just completely overwhelmed at having his Daddy there, it took him a few minutes of holding onto me before he could go over to Michael. Then he was all laughs, and hugs, and kisses. The baby (I need to stop calling him that, he's almost a year and a half old!), Gabriel went right to Michael as if no time had passed! It was a marvelous reunion and boy were we glad to be back with our precious children.

Thank you to Grandmom, Great Granny, Aunt Debbie, Aunt LeeAnn, Samantha, Peter, Ben, and Jack for helping to watch and entertain our kiddos so that Michael and I could enjoy our vacation and celebrate being together again. We appreciate more then you will ever know!

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