Sedona AZ 2013 Part One

We hit the open road and headed to Sedona for a family reunion. The kids did really great on the drives to and from. We are lucky that our mini-van allows us to fit all three car seats in the middle row, so I was able to reach all the kids.

Once we got to Sedona, we picked up a few things at the grocery store and our adventures began. We swam daily--but I didn't bring my camera (Last time I dropped our camera, breaking it at the pool.)
However, I did get a lot of other pictures. We went to the Church of the Holy Cross, which is built into the Red Rock.

Then we had a fun family party to celebrate all the Summer Birthdays, which meant Bruce, Regina, and I received presents---We all LOVE them.

During the party we took some family pictures.

We visited the old mining town of Jerome. Our favorite part in the museum was the rocks that glowed in the dark--we called them "moon rocks"

Ans Since it was REALLY hot, we had to have ice cream. The girls really liked the blue ice cream with sprinkles. I was able to have mint ice cream with no chocolate!!!

As Jennie said, "We climbed a very tall hill," so we could look at some of the shops in Uptown Sedona. While we were walking around, we found these fun cut outs.

We also took some time to play the xylophones. We talked about putting out a hat and seeing how much money we would get for our songs, but we feared we wouldn't get anything.