IE Adventures

on the way home from AZ we stopped in the IE to vacation. The kids rode with grandpa & grandma in the microwave. we stayed with them at the RV park in cabins. us in one, the cousins in another, and the grandparents in the RV.











we went on the palm springs aerial tramway. while we waited to board, the kids played in a gorgeous surrounding of fall leaves, crawling through bushes and climbing on rocks. on the tram, we had the opportunity to see beautiful views and there was snow at the top to play!
we had an all family snowball fight - grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins - it was a blast. we built our first big snowman (last winter we made one about a foot tall, so this year's 3 feet was much more realistic).
sy was the 5th little grubb to wear this snowsuit. it was his daddy's over 30 years ago and now each of our children has had the opportunity to wear it at least once.


scott's sister's family is such fun to play with. the kids enjoy doing just about anything with each other and the adults all like playing games together. so vacation with them is always a good time.



we went hiking in the hills behind our kabin. there were more fun views and big boulders to climb.



we celebrated scott's 35th birthday at a local italian restaurant

then headed home on new year's eve. by this time our kids had been away from home for 9 days and we were thinking that it was about 2 days too long. hopefully we'll work on that again though soon. (that means we'd have to go on another vacation - which always sounds good to me.)