Every year Cordelle and his department go to the annual Leavitt Group Managers Conference. Their job is mostly to document the whole trip (pictures, video) and then of course make sure all the insurance companies are recognized for all that they sponsor. Anyways lots of work for them but for me.....I just get to play. :) This year we went back to the Kierland Resort in Scottsdale, AZ. We drove down on Tuesday with the Mike and Holly Kelly. Which by the way I am way bummed I didn't get any pictures of. Sometimes I am lame at documenting my trips. Anyways, it was SO fun hanging out with them all week. They made our 8 hour drive SO much more fun than it would of been with just Cordelle and I...no offense Cordelle. But its because of the Kelly's I have a new favorite game: "Would you rather?" (But thats for a whole other post!) They really are such a fun couple, I'm glad they were there and that I could hang out with Holly while our husbands worked (geesh) on "our" vacation. :) I spent a lot of time reading and lounging by the pool and cruising in the lazy river. I almost felt guilty for how lazy I was being but luckily my mom was at home with the kids and they were having all sorts of fun going to parks, the lake, McDonalds (which my kids were enthusiastically introduced to....yes introduced. What? I'm not really a fast food person. And really the thought of MC'D's food even for my kids makes me feel icky, so why would I take them? Shrug.) Anyways, so yes, I napped whenever I pleased, hung out with Cordelle when he did get a little free time, played tennis, went out to eat A LOT (well except for the gourmet meals they fed us at the hotel...but I didn't care for this food half as much as this tasty little Italian restaraunt we found.....sigh.) It was really a lot of fun....and hey the best part of it was, LG pays for everything! The old adage is true, you can't beat free.
I really should have taken more pictures, but there was this huge stair case at the hotel that overlooked the golf course and a small lake. At night they'd light this fire and people would roast marshmallows down there. I really should have taken more pictures because this place is really pretty.
Us at the pool. Its always weird to see pictures of yourself in bathing suits. (Its even weirder to say bathing suits instead of swimming suits). Again I should've documented the lazy river, water falls and vast "coolness" of this pool area.
Ahh the portraits. Okay explanation. So for a great deal of the time Cordelle is taking people's portraits for a conference year book that they put together. So they need nice professional head shots of people. Well in order to get the lighting just right Cordelle has to take quite a few pictures with different settings and so needless to say we have a lot of pictures of each other while he messes with his light and camera settings. (But isn't he a hunk?)
...don't do it....keep looking tough...don't smile....
Sorry fuzzy. On the deck after dinner one night in front of that fire that I previously mentioned.
In front of the waterfall stair case.
"No, you're the man!"
I'm not even sure who took this picture...cause obviously I'm helping Cordelle with pictures after dinner one night. Must have been someone from our table.
At dinner Wednesday night.
Okay, Melanie (Cordelle's boss) was snapping this one, and she was trying to make it candid, but lets be honest by the look on my face, I clearly knew she was taking it.
So much fun to get a break here and there! Thank you Mom for coming down and watching the kids all week. They LOVED it. I come back and Jaq's singing Good Night Jackie and Seth's playing that knuckle song on the piano, telling me all about their adventures with Granny. I love you. It seriously just puts your mind at ease to know your kids are with your own mom when you have to leave them. And then of course thank you Melissa and Ryan for taking the kids here and there when my mom had to leave early. We couldn't do anything without good friends.
I really should have taken more pictures, but there was this huge stair case at the hotel that overlooked the golf course and a small lake. At night they'd light this fire and people would roast marshmallows down there. I really should have taken more pictures because this place is really pretty.
Us at the pool. Its always weird to see pictures of yourself in bathing suits. (Its even weirder to say bathing suits instead of swimming suits). Again I should've documented the lazy river, water falls and vast "coolness" of this pool area.
Ahh the portraits. Okay explanation. So for a great deal of the time Cordelle is taking people's portraits for a conference year book that they put together. So they need nice professional head shots of people. Well in order to get the lighting just right Cordelle has to take quite a few pictures with different settings and so needless to say we have a lot of pictures of each other while he messes with his light and camera settings. (But isn't he a hunk?)
...don't do it....keep looking tough...don't smile....
Sorry fuzzy. On the deck after dinner one night in front of that fire that I previously mentioned.
In front of the waterfall stair case.
"No, you're the man!"
I'm not even sure who took this picture...cause obviously I'm helping Cordelle with pictures after dinner one night. Must have been someone from our table. 
At dinner Wednesday night.
Okay, Melanie (Cordelle's boss) was snapping this one, and she was trying to make it candid, but lets be honest by the look on my face, I clearly knew she was taking it.
So much fun to get a break here and there! Thank you Mom for coming down and watching the kids all week. They LOVED it. I come back and Jaq's singing Good Night Jackie and Seth's playing that knuckle song on the piano, telling me all about their adventures with Granny. I love you. It seriously just puts your mind at ease to know your kids are with your own mom when you have to leave them. And then of course thank you Melissa and Ryan for taking the kids here and there when my mom had to leave early. We couldn't do anything without good friends.
