Weirichs in Wyoming: Mikesell Family

Trip to Dallas!

11:59 PM

January 18th - 20th 2018

We flew Brian back to Texas and into the Dallas airport because it was significantly cheaper. So I drove up a day early to spend some time with my sister.

Breydon started trying to take his shirt off for some reason? Managed to get himself like this and then complained for me to fix it.

On the drive up there we stopped and met my old college roommate Nicole at Chick-Fil-A. It was a blast getting to see her again!

Adleigh and Klara will be roommates as well.

We made it to Aunt Marah's! So glad Aunt Megan did not give my child that gun for Christmas!

We went on a walk and Austin was finally old enough to try a new position. He was clearly super impressed.

Adleigh was walking the dog. She had it tied around her waist. Thankfully Penny was very obedient this trip.

Playing at the awesome park in their neighborhood.

Swings!

Investigating the hole in the tree and helping Russell find specials.

Marah is a much more organized person and does chatbooks. The kids were very impressed. I have looked into doing them but never actually pull the trigger. It would be so much money to back print all my old posts but I would feel bad just starting with books right now.

Superheros! Too bad y'all live so dang far away!

Austin getting a quality nap in. Pretty sure this is about the time that he started to regress in his night sleeping.

Russell loved the baby!

My kids are the craziest sleepers. This is why they don't sleep in wood cribs (they slam into the sides hard) and sleep on queen beds (they roll off toddler and twin beds).

After picking up Brian, we hung out with the Kofords a bit more and then headed on the road. We stopped for a quick bit of food with the Hazelbush's. Breydon and Lily were born the same week despite being due almost a month apart. She was very late and Breydon was two weeks early.

Adleigh and Brookly were best buddies at the shop in Corsicana. We sure miss living close to them!

Last Day in Arizona

4:08 PM

December 23rd 2017

Pretty sure I need to start going to Arizona every winter for a month. Megan if I promise to keep homeschooling will you join me???

We started the morning off with some good solid parenting skills. Gambling is fun! My Dad inherited this from a coworker (I believe) and all the kids were thrilled to play with it. Breydon is there too but not the one you might think he is...

Opening cousin presents! Breydon was thrilled with his gun.

Look who finally decided to show back up!!!

Adleigh got the best toy ever for her that involves two of the things she loves best: art and baths.

Austin getting in some last Grandpa naps.

Breydon decided it would be really fun to place in the fire pit.

He also really enjoys wearing other people's shoes.

Ok maybe one last nap on Grandpa.

Reading books is the best. Oh and look, Austin napping on someone else. The kid is sooooo spoiled!

Oh these boys! Being a toddler is the best.

Family picture time! Dang boys are so lucky that it takes them 2 seconds to get ready.

We planned to take some pictures on the new grounds surrounding the Tucson Temple. But they had a water leak that day and closed the temple down and locked the gate. The photographer, my childhood friend Melissa, still got some good pictures. Even if she did have to stand in the middle of the road. The good thing is that no one was there so we didn't have any random photobombers!

Our family has grown a lot since the last photo including the Greats! I was pregnant with Breydon in the last one!

With the Mikesell Greats.

With the Carnahan Great!

The kids entertained themselves crawling around a water drainage area. Breydon fell and cried for a bit. Megan then snapped this adorable picture of him with his slightly bloody nose.

I call this photo DOUBLE CHINS aka pretend you are laughing.

Sisters!

Girls! Somehow I was the only one with a double chin this time. Pretty sure we were laughing about boobs.

The Grandpa and 2/3rds of his Grand Daughters.

Hey Breydon, Smile! And this is the look she gets...

Megan tried stealing Austin... he does look more like her kids than mine.

Grandkids!

The Core 6.

Probably one of the best pictures taken of my parents, ever.

Our family picture. My hair looks dumb but Adleigh, Austin and Brian look good.

Saying goodbye! Technically it was my parent's year to host Christmas. But we hadn't been to Christmas at Brian's parents for a long time and we had seen my parents the last two years. So we decided to be fair and go see his parents for Christmas. (This year (2018) we are boycotting everyone and next year will be back on track!) So we loaded up in the truck immediately after the pictures and headed on our way.

And we were two hours into the drive when my parents realized we left ALL of our Christmas presents at their house. As in all the ones we bought for our children. Whoops! So we turned around and met my Dad at a random place in Tucson so we could get all the presents. My kids were excited to see Grandpa one last time. I on the other hand had seriously considered just going to the store and buying them all new presents. Nothing like adding an extra 2 hours to our already long drive. But we did it and many thanks to my Dad for driving 2 hours for us! We finally pulled into Fredericksburg right as the sun was rising. We tried to go to sleep but some of my nieces and nephews were up and my kids wouldn't go back to sleep.

Sabino Canyon, Christmas Jammies and Great Grandpa's Birthday

3:34 PM

December 22nd 2017

Our last big outing of our almost 4 week long adventure in Arizona was going to Honeybee Canyon. It isn't a far drive and fairly friendly.

Breydon passing through the tunnel to get into the canyon.

The kids could have stayed at the entranced and just climbed and climbed. We were at the entrance for a good solid 30 minutes.

Adleigh following her larger cousins to greater heights and posing. Breydon trying desperately to keep up.

Oh the poses that this girl has.

More posing and a happy Breydon.

The wonderful Uncles making sure no kids were killed in the climbing process.

Breydon was very content to stay in his spot.

Breydon and the boulder.

Climbing parade.

Look who woke up for the walk back!

The walk back. Can you tell who are the adults who don't have kids?

Adleigh needed some bonding with Grandpa time.

It was Grandpa Scott's Birthday too so w had to celebrate!

Carrots are very fun to chew on when you don't have teeth!

Family tradition of opening Christmas PJ's was moved a day early so that my kids and I could participate. Ok mostly so that we would be there for the pictures.😂

Cheese!

Giving Great Grandpa his gift to open.

Opening gift chaos.

Adleigh's PJs.

Birthday boy and his greatest fans!

We were the ultimate Pinterest family this year and got matching PJs. I am very lucky that my husband was not there or I would have not been caught dead in mine! The sizing was very off so most of the adults were in skin tight pants. I wore my husbands. Actually I don't even think he would have been able to fit in his and even if he could they would have been massive high waters. Thank you China manufacturing.