Q&A Mac: Quinn's 10 Year Reunion

We went to Mesa last week for Quinn's 10 year high school reunion - hard to believe that we're old enough to start having those! Anyway, it was the first time we'd been back to Arizona since right after we found out I was prego with Rylee, so the trip was long over due and we had a ball!

We stayed with Quinn's best friend since they were 10, Anthon, and his family. Anthon and Jennifer were so nice to let us invade their home! We made some good memories and all the kiddos had fun playing together. The only problem is that I realized after we left that I somehow neglected to take any pictures with the Ellsworths! I did at least get a few pictures of some of their kids with our kids, but I'm sad that I didn't get any of Quinn and his BFF. Oh well!

The funny thing is that this post won't have much about the reunion itself, even though that was the reason for the trip. But we (especially Quinn!) had a great time seeing his old friends, in spite of the fact that the reunion itself was over priced and pretty poorly planned. These pics are from the family day at the park before the actual reunion. Duck ponds are one of the girls' favorite things these days!

They had all kinds of snacks there, including snow cones (thank goodness, because it was HOT!) Cailyn's favorite snack was the popcorn...

...and Rylee's was the cotton candy.

(Cailyn didn't like the cotton candy...she was trying to play and I tried to get her to taste some, but she wasn't interested. I was so convinced, however, that she needed to try it that I forced it into her mouth thinking that once she tasted the sweet fluff she would love it! Instead, she got angry with me and would have nothing to do with it from that point on. Hopefully she won't be scarred for life.)

And, here's the closest we got to a picture of the McNamaras and Ellsworths...missing cute little Mason who is abouty a month younger than Cailyn, and obviously the parents. But we have McKay, Rylee, Makenna, and Cailyn to prove that we were, in fact, spending time together.

Makenna and Rylee had a lot of fun playing together - Rylee slept in Makenna's room while we were there and they got to be good little friends.

Rylee saw some people fishing and had a little meltdown when we wouldn't let her hold their fishing poles and gut the fish with them. Luckily, her daddy thought quick and found her this branch to "go fishing."

She was happy as could be!

And wound up having a whole gang of fishing buddies join in the fun!

Can you tell that it was hot out?

Poor Cailyn was about as tired as I've ever seen her when we left - that sun just drained all the energy out of her little body!

We had dinner at one of Quinn's old mission buddies' house (and did manage to snap a picture of them!) It just so happens that Ben and Brittney are in Anthon and Jennifer's ward! What are the odds? Go figure! We'd been planning to get together with them all weekend and then when we went to get their address we found that they were just around the block from where we'd been staying all week!

These are the flowers that Rylee picked out for me for Mothers' Day. She was VERY proud of them and loved the "fluffy" purple flowers.

Late Sunday night, we drove down to Maricopa to see my good friend, Saralyn, and her family. Saralyn and I considered ourselves long lost twins back in the day, but we haven't seen each other in over 6 years! So we stayed the night and spent Monday with her family before we drove home Monday night. She and Eric made us lots of yummy food, we swam, went to the park, and our girls had lots of fun playing together!