we made it there in the early afternoon. grandma lil first thing apologized for her messy house which was perfectly spotless but she swears there was dust... haha but seriously it was spotless. grandpa bobby was worried the dog would jump up and scratch daniel so he yelled at him the whole day. it was too funny. they of course were completely smitten with our little man. grandma held him for a while until he was ready to eat. at that point grandpa and chris headed off to the hotel to get us checked in.
that evening grandma lil made us a feast! it included prime rib, potatoes, salad, fruit salad, chocolate cherry cake, and a bunch of other stuff... we definitely ate well that night. after we headed off to the hotel gave little danny a bath and went to bed... it was an adventure bathing him in the tiny sink of the hotel.. i think he enjoyed it!
the next morning we ate a gourmet breakfast at the hotel courtesy of grandma and grandpa... it was really good... i loaded daniel up in my wrap and we walked over... it was such a nice day in AZ... not too hot!
after breakfast we went back over to grandma's and they took us to lunch at the golden corral. that was quite the adventure! we then went back to their house and looked at old pics both from chris being a young kid and from grandma's life back in casper, wy. they were a crazy bunch of people always hosting the best parties!! it was really fun to sit around and hear about her family and her kids and how chris' dad was such an easy child to raise. i came away with some great gems as she gave me all the pics. excited to have those! that night we had left overs from the night before and then took pics so we would have proof that grandma and grandpa got to meet the first spillers great grandson.
i will say it was hard to get the grandparents to look at the camera as they only wanted to stare at the baby! but we finally did get a few of them looking:
daniel was being so cute and smiley we had to take a picture of that too...
that night we went back to the hotel and went for a quick swim and then headed to bed... daniel had fun looking at the toys in his little bed...
the next morning we said our goodbyes and headed off to flagstaff. we had decided as long as we were in az we should see the grand canyon.... i've been once but have no memories of it... the next morning we got up and while i got ready chris entertained daniel by watching tv... a little too close maybe??
and then we jumped in the car.. it was raining in flagstaff so we were prepared for the same... but as we got about 30 min on the road the rain turned to heavy snow and the temp dropped to 32 degrees! after a short debate we decided we had better turn around because it only seemed to be getting worse... but we did stop and take a few angry pics in the snow first!
when we got back to flagstaff it had started snowing there as well!! view from our hotel room:
instead we went to the mansion of the first family of flagstaff.... the riordan family... massive home!! and i got to play on the 1904 steinway piano!! that was awesome. then we went to dinner at black barts steak house... they have singing waiters. it was fun entertainment with awesome food! on the way home we stopped and got a little ice cream... when getting out of the car chris dropped his shake on the seat and dumped out half... i had to just laugh because the night before we had gotten some ice cream and chris had dropped his head down on the ground and had to scrape off the top half... he was not having luck with ice cream this week!! haha
that night we gave daniel a bath in the sink and he was just in an awesome mood and smiled and even laughed a little and just talked the whole time!! it was so fun!!!
even though we didn't get to see the grand canyon we still had an awesome trip and were really glad we got to see grandma lil and grandpa bobby!!
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