Never eat yellow snow!

What a weekend! We went to Prescott for the weekend to celebrate my grandpa's 90th birthday! It was Sunday, so we decided to make a weekend out of it since Ava isn't really a great traveler. We left at 5 am Saturday morning. We woke Ava up from sleeping in hopes that she would be sleepy for at least the first hour. For the most part she was, but I had to read a lot of books and pull out a lot of toys for the last hour.

We got up there and I thought it might be fun to go to the Prescott zoo since it is smaller than the Phoenix zoo. First we had to stop at Prescott Brewing Company for lunch for Mike. We always go there when we go to Prescott, then it was off to the zoo. We didn't see that many animals as they were all sleeping, but we did see a few. Here is a picture..



Today, the family came over to my mom's house for my grandpa's 90th birthday celebration. Ava was a little shy at first, but warmed up a bit. Then, about 12 noon today, it started to snow. At first it was light and not sticking, but once it did, we had to take Ava outside to experience the snow for the first time. She loved it. Here are some pictures of her in the snow...

I gave her some motherly advice and told her never to eat the snow if it is yellow!!!! Everyone was there with us experiencing her first time with the snow.

Overall, it was a nice weekend. It was an interesting trip as it has been since Ava was a baby (Oct) since we have gone anywhere and of course the rules has changed. I had to make sure to have food options for her as she can't always eat what we eat. She is definitely more sensitive to where she sleeps. My mom has a crib in the room next to ours and for the most part she did great. She would cry for about 30 seconds when I would first put her down, but I waited outside of her room and she would go right to sleep, but when she woke up, she was ready to get up. There was no playing around for her. We will be going to LA for Mike's sisters wedding in July and it will be interesting to see how that goes. I think we might have to make one more weekend trip to Prescott this summer as a test. The other hard part is the drive. The drive to Prescott is about 2 hours, the drive to LA without stopping except for a couple of pee stops, is 6 hours. We might have to leave at night when we go to LA to get her to sleep. She will only sleep 30 minutes to the dot when we travel in the car right now.

Traveling with a little toddler is probably more stressful on me than her, but the world didn't end and to that, i cheers us both.