Flagstaff with Friends

This was our second annual "Friends Trip" to Flagstaff with the kids and it made me so incredibly happy spending time with my friends and all of our kids. 

Jessica and I got to the AirBnB early, and took the kids downtown for lunch and some shopping. 

This girl has been my constant support, sounding board, and seriously such an amazing friend to me. 

Our cute little AirBnB.

Tilly and Becky arrived shortly after we got back, and I immediately snatched up the baby! Happy place!

The kids immediately started a game of hide and seek in the house and listening to their laughter made me so happy.

His smile is 100% fake. I handed him the baby to see his reaction, and he was so awkward about it haha. Neither of my boys want another sibling!

Check out these smiles! Even though they hadn't seen each other in a year, they all got along so well. 

We hung out on the patio all night, and after being in the Phoenix heat for the last two months, it was such a nice break to sit outside and catch up.

The next day we took the kids to Bearizona where Tilly organized the most epic scavenger hunt for them in about five minutes flat.

We let them run around in two teams and they all had a blast.

Second try of handing him the baby...haha.

Some of us took a nap when we got back to the cabin (including me and it was glorious), we ordered pizza, and opened the hot tub.

It ended up raining and it was so nice.

One of my favorite moments of this trip was actually that night, when we forced all the kids to go on a post rain neighborhood walk in the dark with us and the little kids ended up playing basketball in the street for a long time. It felt like a "90's summer".

On our final day in Flagstaff, we decided to take the kids to the ropes course again, but this year, we split the bigs and littles up, and Becky and I braved the adult course with the big kids. 

I’ve been waiting for Fox to be old enough to do the adult ropes course with me for years, so doing one of my favorite activities not only with him, but also our friends was a dream come true. I loved seeing all the little friends encourage each other and cheer each other on when things got scary. Core memory!

These two hadn't seen each other in a while, but became fast besties again. Finn has actually asked for Charlie every single day since coming back. 

Fox was definitely scared, but he was embracing his fears and I was so proud of him, but most importantly he was proud of himself.

I hope we will do these trips for years to come, it was so relaxing to co-parent with a bunch of other moms and seeing the kids have so much fun together.