Our Weekend Getaway

We spent this past weekend up at the Hyatt in Gainey Ranch in Scottsdale, AZ. We've done this for the past 3 years as part of the Directors Club for Dan's work. We were able to hang out with the Smith's this year, and my sister BreAnn came up on Saturday to watch the kids for the evening work dinner. Our kids (and us) thoroughly enjoy this fun hotel. The grounds are beautiful, and the pools are awesome! We spent the majority of our day on Saturday (pretty much from 9:30 am until 5:00 pm) at their beach swimming pool. This was Allie's favorite thing to do! It has a zero depth pool with a sandy beach. We were busy making sand castles (sort of), swimming like mermaids, playing by the fountains in the pool, and soaking in the warm sun.

Going down the huge water slide that was one of my favorite things we did. If you lay down on your back, you would fly down it! It almost felt like you would flip over b/c you were going so fast. At the end of the slide it would shoot you out and drop you off a 3 foot drop over the water. It was a blast! We had fun taking turns going down it with the Smith's and Breann (my sister). Drew got a hold of some of Allie's Lucky Charms for breakfast. Of course, he only ate the marshmellows...

Drew seemed to always have a sand mustache... I'm not sure why he thinks it tastes so good...

Allie had a blast digging, creating, and making different sand objects at the pool. She made many new friends there, and didn't ever want to leave.
Drew having a great time at the beach!
Allie loved to pretend to be a mermaid in the shallow water. Some work friends (the Curtices) were in the water and their boys were pretending to be jelly fish, sharks, stingrays, crabs, etc. But Allie always wanted to be a mermaid!
We rented some bikes and the kid carriage and thought it would be fun to go on a quick bike ride while it was overcast and not too hot before the lunch BBQ. But we didn't get very far. Drew started crying before we even left the property. He didn't ever stop. He did not like being strapped into the carriage, and not being able to be next to his mom. We thought he'd love this, but I think he was a little too tired, too hot, and too hungry... Maybe next time :-)