Fall Break in Arizona

For fall break this year, we loaded up the kiddies - along with Jens' friend Keyne, and we headed to sunny Queen Creek, Arizona!

We left right after the football game on Wednesday night.  It was senior night so it ended late.  We left around 11:00pm and I drove to St. George.  We got to our house around 2:15am.  We went in and crashed until the next morning.  We got and and continued our drive into Arizona.  We got to our friends Mark and Allison Johnson's house around 4:00pm.  The kids headed straight for their pool!  

We stayed with them for the weekend and had a blast.  The kids didn't get too far away from the pool.  Mark smoked us a brisket and then some ribs the next day.  It was delicious!  We went to Lexi's high school football game to watch her cheer.  

 Mark and Jeff took all the kids to the ASU football game.

First they did a little tail gating with friends before going into the stadium.

 ASU head coach Todd Graham and assistant coach Chip Long had been up to SHHS to watch Porter play in the football game the week before.  (one of the MANY schools recruiting Porter).  Anyhow, the coaches had given them all a tour of the locker room and gave them pre-game side line passes.  They were so excited!

ASU had a great win!

The next day after the game, Sunday, the day we were supposed to leave on, Coach Todd Graham called Jeff and Mark and told them to come by and visit for a bit before we left.  You and only imagine how excited they were for this opportunity!  The hustled right down there to "visit"!

Jeff and Mark made themselves pretty cozy in Coach Grahams office and they just talked and laughed with him for a while before coming back home - on a total high!

Needless to say, we didn't end up leaving Arizona until around 7:00pm.  We started on our long 10 hour drive back home.  I made it to St. George - around 2:00am - again.  We spent the night and finished the 3 hour drive the next day.  We had a great 5 day weekend!