Arizona Road Trip!

We went to Arizona to visit my brother Cody, (sis in law) Cortney, (nephew and niece) Ryder and Liv. The drive ending up taking us about 13 hours I think.. but we drove right down the center of Utah on highways (instead of the freeway) and it was such a beautiful drive it didn't feel like 13 hours. Well when we were about halfway there guess who gets pulled over? Yep, Rodney! We were following a semi truck and he was getting ready to pass him so he was fairly close to him. As he was about to pass he had to pull back over since there were cars in the other lane - well the first one was a cop. And he pulled Rodney over for "following to closely". It was so strange, he asked Rodney to get out of the car and come sit with him in the patrol car. So wierd! Anyway the cop didn't give him a ticket and just told him to not follow as close in the future. haha. This picture was right after he had woken up and his cute little hair was flipped out. He is such a cute, happy little boy! I couldn't get enough of him!! And here is Liv. She didn't want to let these goggles go and I just had to get a picture - she's such a little stinker. According to my mom that's exactly how I was when I was a little girl so Cod and Cort you guys are so lucky cuz I am awesome! haha just kidding! She is great! :) There is a couple swimming pools in my brothers complex and a pretty sweet resort nearby that we 'broke into' to go swimming. We went to one of the pools every day (this was back in March when it was still SNOWING in Utah - it was such a great place to be during that time). The one at the resort had a basketball hoop in the pool so the boys played that forever while Cort and I layed out and played with the kiddos. There was also 2 water slides that we got to play on and Cody and Rodney tried to take the kids down.. this picture shows just how much Liv loved it. Cody works at the Scottsdale TPC golfcourse right by his complex so he took us on a tour of the course on evening and let Rodney try golfing. Wow this course was unreal - it was so much fun! The kids loved Rodney and wanted to be by him all the time... even when he was napping. haha - they were climbing all over him :)I had to get a picture with them this night since Liv was wearing my favorite cartoon! We couldn't get them to look at the camera though. We went to the Mall and walked around for a while, their mall there is so huge! Liv couldn't wait to go...There is this really cool kids play place we went to let the kids have fun and Ryder showed us he is a little monkey. He climbed this thing like it was nothing - brave little guy!
Well needless to say we did not want to come home and go back to work.. On the way home guess who got pulled over again? Yep, Rodney! Luckily we didn't get a ticket that time either - Rodney must be one smooth talker. They pulled him back to their car again to talk to him so I don't even know what was said, but he must've done good since we didn't get a ticket!