What an Exciting Weekend!!!!

Hey everyone!!

Wow what an exciting Labor Day weekend it was for me!! Well, my grandparents got here Thursday afternoon, they were here waiting for us when we got off of school. Friday was kind of a relax day for them, but Saturday we all went to Globe, Arizona to see my uncle, Glen or Butch as my mom calls him, that all of us haven't seen in about 13 years or so and my dad and brother have never met him, we also hadn't met his wife Diana before that, they arlso have 2 dogs, Pepper and Max.. they are both so cute and were finally about to somewhat get along with Daisy on Sunday a few hours before we left, next time we hope they remember that they are friends!!! I don't remember much about my childhood and he was a memory that I don't remember at all unfortuantly..... but it was amazing to get to know him again and meet his wonderful wife!!! We arrived around noon Arizona time (holy cow I get so easily confused with time, but I got it down!) and spent the night there and ended up leaving around noonish Sunday due to a Caity moment causing us to leave later.... you dont wanna know :).... Diana is an amazing cook... she went all out and cooked us T-bones, a pot of beans, salad and some homemade salsa and it was all so tasty!!!

Of course we have a ton of pictures because mom and I both love to take them, the scenery on the way there was amazingly beautiful, except for an area called Salt Lake Canyon, oh boy that was scary, it was very pretty but super dangerous, my uncle said a semi goes off the edge of it atleast once a month!

Ok here's some pictures of the scenery, some is on the way there and others are on the way back!!

Family Pictures! (I will add more later, because my silly self didnt get any pictures of Diana and the ones I got of Glen are...well like a side view...)

So we got home around 4 or 5 yesterday and kinda relaxed, had left overs for dinner and then all of us headed to bed.... Today we started all over again! Dad took us to Old Town, it was very nice, I loved looking at parts of it, but Nana got tired pretty quickly with the walking we did, so we headed on up the mountain. Dad took us to Sandia Crest which is like almost 11,000 feet in elevation...holy crap I am scared of heights... like bad, it was pretty looking off of the edge, but kinda creeped me out after a while, luckily I got some pictures before that happened!

I figured slideshows would be better instead of individual pictures... that'd take up way too much room! :P

Now onto something else.....

I found this blog while searching for something, at this point I can't remember what in the world I was looking for, but I stumbled up Erin's blog and read this

"Hi everyone,

I looking for some help here. For those of you who read my last post, I mentioned briefly of the condition of my neighbor. She, Paige age 13, was in a serious boating accident a few weeks ago and just had part of her arm amputated. The doctors are working to save the rest, but are unsure how much they can do. Here is a link to the article that describes it more in detail. Included in the article it mentions they've run out of room for flowers and stuffed animals, but cards are welcome. Well my family and I really want to something and I thought amazing cards from all you wonderful ladieswould be just what could cheer Paige up. She is one of those girls that ALWAYS wears a smile.
I'll be offering up some BLOG CANDY for anyone who mails a cardeither to me to hand deliver or directly to Paige using the address from the article.
Cards can be mailed to Paige Welch at Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115.
All you need to do is make a card for Paige, post on your blog, leave a comment here and mail it out. Not only will you then be entered in the drawing but you'll also be helping a very sweet girl and her family through a very hard time. I'd love to reach 100 cards for her!!! "

I've decided to send a card myself and will start working on that tomorrow when I get home from school and I think my mom is planning on one too. I know that Erin will be able to receive atleast 100 cards and I'm sure they will all bring a smile to Ms. Paige! :)

Well I think that's it for tonight, I am worn out from all of this excitement!!!

Hugs!

Cait





UPDATE:

Ok, I just realized mom already had a slideshow posted so I stole hers....shh don't tell her :p