Lake Havasu

We snuck away for a quick weekend in Havasu with friends!

My girlfriend, Candis is from there and is always looking for an excuse to get everyone together, and she put together a little trip for everyone to show off her hometown!  I am pretty sure we ate at some of her most favorite places {I was having flashbacks}.  The last time I joined her on a trip was her bachelorette party!  It was nice to enjoy the town as a family!

 And I know that I can always leave it up to Candis to say at one point or another, "It's Havasu so...!" and she didn't disappoint!  Love it when she talks Havasu to me ;)

We got in pretty late and decided to just crash!  Boys slept in one room and girls in the other.  The kids thought this was so cool that they got special snuggle time with mommy and daddy!  It was fun, until the second night, when Lola and I got stuck on the pull out bed.  Ugh.  I mean, I know it was only fair that I had to sleep on it one night, but the hubs did NOT tell me that you could feel every single coil possible.  I would have tried a little harder to figure out a way to sleep in the good bed the second night.  Let's just say that I am still sore.

 Throwing rocks into the lake before breakfast.  Who knew this could be so fun? 

Ahhhh, breakfast!  I feel like I need to tell you about the highlight of my trip!   

Saturday morning we headed to breakfast as a big group.  Try seating eight adults and six kids together in hopes that others around us can enjoy a somewhat peaceful meal!  The conference room worked perfectly for that!  While waiting for everyone to arrive something CrAzY happened to me!  For the first time ever in my history of blogging, a total stranger came up to me and said that she recognized my blog!  I probably seemed like a snob and didn't really know what to say?!  Inside I was seriously doing cartwheels and doing the happy dance, someone recognized little old me?!  It came outta no where!  I mean, I know there are strangers out there that read about us every time I post {somehow I managed to snag almost 300 followers}, but it just caught me off guard!  I didn't even ask her name or her blog, so if you are that cute little stranger that had enough guts to come tell me you were a reader, PLEASE leave a comment so that I can come visit you and see if you ever got around to making those yummy peanut butter cups!  I mean, you made my whole trip up to Havasu and my hubs couldn't stop teasing me about it!  Thank you!

Now, back to the regularly scheduled post.  After my 15 minutes of fame, we headed to the beach!  This was by far, my kids favorite part of the trip!  In fact, when given the choice on Sunday to go to the pool or the beach, they chose the beach, no questions asked!

Kite flying, sea shell finding, swimming, sand castle building were among the many things the kids did together!  Have I said how much I love the ages of my kids?  It is amazing to watch them play together and independently without my help {giving me more time to just snap away}!

They really are growing up so fast.

After a few hours of hangin' out, the little ones headed back to the appropriate rooms to nap.  Perfect time for the mommies to shop!  Candis, Lisette, Kat, and I headed across the bridge to cram as much shopping time in as possible before naptime was over {my kids did not nap, Lola probably could have used one though}.

After shopping time was over, it was time to get ready for dinner.  The kids took advantage of the gigantic jacuzzi tub located in the bedroom and scrub-a-dub-dubbed until their little fingers and toes looked like that of old people!

Then it was off to dinner with friends.  The kids were running around like wild animals before dinner and I am sure the hostess was doing everything she could do to find us a table away from everyone, just like at breakfast!  Matix and Lola licking the window on the door was just the start of the craziness that was happening!

 And poor little Kyan got cut out of the picture, but he was there!!!

After dinner, we headed straight to bed...again!  You would think that we never sleep!  The day in the sun had us wiped!

We had breakfast as a family of four this time and then headed to the beach to get in a little bit more play time before we headed home to see Grandpa and Grandma Nebraska!  On our walk back to our room after breakfast, we walked out on one of the floating docks to pose for a picture!  I am so bummed that I didn't get a single picture as a family the whole weekend {ok, I am talking like we were there for a long time, but it seriously was like 40 hours}!  I did however, manage to snag some with my babies!

Lola was so nervous, with the dock shaking and everything, that I had to hold her and Kyan and his bucket of shells!  That is all they did, collect shells.  Both of them, but especially Kyan spent countless hours searching for those things!   He says when he is 10 he is going to open a shop and sell them and lemonade!  He wants to sell lemonade so bad!  Poor kid, I always donate stuff to goodwill, I am too lazy to have a sale, he will probably never sell a glass of lemonade in his life!  But it is good to have dreams!

We were the last family to arrive, as I had parent/teacher conferences Friday and the first family to ship out Sunday, as Chad wanted to spend some time at home before work Monday!  I ended my trip with a smooch from cutie pie, Nixen.

 And what a way to end a quick little getaway!

Thank you Creels for making this trip happen!