We are coming home!

*A little preview of family pictures that we got taken, will post more later...
So Steve had to work Monday, Tuesday and a couple hours today. He had a couple different options of how we could make this work since he knew I needed to be at my parents for Thanksgiving. I chose the option of driving 6 hours on Sunday, leaving Joe with my parents, staying in Arizona Monday, Tuesday and driving back to Valencia on Wednesday. The point of me coming was to look at houses, kind of get a feel for the area, and relax....I have done A LOT of relaxing...It has been wonderful, the resort is absolutely beautiful. It is a very different feel from San Francisco. San Francisco was very professional and the hotel catered to huge groups like Google and Oracle and this resort is all about the guests. Monday afternoon I got to go with Steve, Kevin (Director of Finance), and Ralph (General Manager) to lunch at the spa. I cannot wait to have a day at the spa, or even an hour at the spa :) Lunch was so yummy, I had this shrimp pesto pasta thing with a raspberry rose cooler. I walked around with Steve to get a feel for the resort and then relaxed in the room. Monday night we met up with our friends, Ben, Heather, Kena and Benson for dinner. It was fun and it was hard to believe that 6 weeks have gone by since they moved here. Tuesday, once again I relaxed and then went to dinner with Steve at this outside area they have here. There are lots of chairs, sofas, fire pits, and a band playing. Such a pretty night, great food, excellent dessert. This morning I got french toast for breakfast which was another treat, and now we are getting ready to go see our boy. We are so lucky that Marriott is putting us up with such a sweet deal. We have 2 connecting hotel rooms, funny that Joe has his own, and they are double or triple the size of our apartment.
Joe, on the other hand, is having the time of his life with his Grandma...He will not talk to me on the phone, my mom puts the phone up to his ear and he says "Grandma" with as much enthusiasm as he possibly can. Well that didn't take too long for her to replace me! He's somewhat used to his dad being gone, so he will talk to him. The first night we were gone he woke up at 2, 4, and 6:30 for good. Anyone who knows Joe knows that is insane for him to be up that early! The second night, my parents automatically woke up at 2 and waited for him to wake up. My dad turned on the golf channel, preparing for his window of sleep to be interrupted and Joe proved them wrong sleeping until 7! I'm sure they didn't wait up too long, but the fact that they woke up expecting him to wake up, made me laugh.
Thanks so much mom, dad, Chelsea, Ben, JK, Ben, & Dan (he did tell me that you taught him vroom vroom yesterday) for taking care of him while we took a little getaway. I know that he couldn't have been in better hands and that is probably why I was able to go. Sorry mom if the kid's energy has exhausted you, but that's what you get for being the most awesome mother ever!