Phoenix Trip

This last weekend my mom and I + Jorel headed to Phoenix, last minute, to visit some family. We left Thursday and came back on Sunday. My mom's sister Irene and her kids -1 live in the Phoenix area. It was a nice trip - long drive though, and my mom and I both got sick, and Jorel isn't feeling too hot either. But anyway, Jorel got to re-meet his 2nd cousin Dylan who is about 20 months and they seemed to have a blast together. They gave each other hugs and played so nicely together. I got to bond a little more with my cousin-in-law, Tina. She's such a sweetheart! She invited me to tag along to her mom's group on Friday, which was nice. I hadn't really gotten to witness Jorel interact with kids his age, and besides the hair pulling - which he does to me too - he does pretty good. Dylan is SO sweet natured and shared his toys so nicely with Jorel, and everyone else for that matter. Jorel loved the slides, and really seemed to like all that was going on. Saturday Tina a Thomas cooked us some yummy dinner and we stayed over late visiting. My other cousin Daniel was there too after his Buddhist retreat. It was great to catch up with all of them. We stayed with my Aunt Irene and her unpredictable big dog Koi, who Jorel loved, but made us all nervous! On Sunday before we left we got to do a - as my mom called it "Parade of Homes" of my cousin's. We first stopped at Daniel's bachelor pad and then we were off to Anna and Steve's new beautiful home. We then took the long trek back... got sick, had to finish my homework, and here we are :) It was nice to get away, as usual... Here's some pics from the trip:

And here's a few random ones from the last couple of days:

And here is Jorel still sleeping at 11:15 this morning... this is why I think he isn't feeling so good: