on the way home....with a quick trip to Sedona, Arizona

So on our way home from Scottsdale, we really wanted to take an extra day and do something fun as a family WITH Cordelle, since the conference was really not "fun" for him.  So Cordelle found this cute little town called Sedona just outside of Pheonix.  This town was beautiful.  Kind of Disney Pixar's Cars-esque, but greener.  The surrounding mountains were incredible and I was thrilled to have been able to really see more of the town as I went for a morning run.  We stopped and stayed a night wanting to do some hiking or something with the kids around the outskirts of town.  Only by the time we got going in the morning it was already burning hot (duh!  We are still in the middle of Arizona!)  Anyways so we opted for playing in a little creek we found and called it good!  Then back for the 7 hour drive to Enoch!

Stuff like this is hard with a baby!  But we managed okay and missed only a few naps!

posing.

throwing rocks.

Took a pit stop and stopped to walk across this huge bridge (cant say quite where its at) but remembered why we don't sight see stuff like this very often...Cordelle and heights are not very compatible.

Learned once again just how afraid of heights Cordelle is.  Literally he stayed this low the entire time we were on the bridge.  He would not let go of one of the kids the whole time, I think more for his stability then theirs.  He could not stand up next to the railing.  Poor guy. Sad and scary! 

Granted, we were up pretty high! But its beautiful.