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My Thankful Life, Part 2

We spent a couple days, while Granny was working, just tooling around as the five of us, taking the boys to some fun places.  This is an old west town that we had taken Jack too on his first trip to Phoenix at Thanksgiving when he was just over a year.
It was fun to go back with all the boys!
They do a mock shoot-out in the middle of the town that we just caught the end of.  It's pretty fun to watch, and you can just imagine life back then.
We took the train ride around the outskirts of the town and saw some working mines.

This is a photo of Superstition Mountain, and the day after we were here, a small plane crashed into it after having picked up three young kids to take them to a small town in AZ for Thanksgiving.  It was very sad.

Then we just walked around the town area and let the boys play.

It's the wild, wild west ya'll!


Then we took a little drive up into the Tonto National Forest.  The sun was setting and it was so pretty.  We stopped and Jack took a picture of us.
Then I got them - we left the little ones in the car as I didn't want to deal with them on the rocks and by the side of the road.

Wyatt just LOVED this box at Granny's.  He kept climbing in it (and then getting stuck)!
On Wednesday we drove up north toward Sedona and Flagstaff to visit Montezuma Castle National Park.  We had so much fun walking around this and two other National Parks.  Jack wanted to stop and read every piece of information!












This is Montezuma Well National Park.











I love this photo - Wyatt reached out for Jack and wouldn't stop fussing until Jack took his hand.

I love Jack's crazy poses.


Tuzigoot was our final National Park and here we couldn't keep Ethan with us - he just wanted to run all over the place.  I love that he had so much fun!
Even Jack couldn't keep him with us.



I don't know if you can see Ethan way up at the top...
And way down there is Jack...
Found him!
And he's back off.

We put the boys to work.
We had such a fun family day!

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