Our Merrizona Christmas Trip

We set off for Arizona at a relatively leisurely time in the morning.  I've been having o' dark thirty starts all cyclocross season long so this was a nice change of pace, but whenever you've got a toddler in tow nothing is for sure so we had to plan accordingly and get an early start even though we had a late morning flight. Bummer, neutralized.  Our two week trips starts off with a week in sunny, warm Tucson to celebrate Christmas with the Reid's and then midway through our trip we move north to Flagstaff to celebrate New Years with the Francis'. 

 Our first brush with Santa at Seatac Airport.

 Didn't take long to get above the muck.

 And just a bit longer to get beyond the muck. Spoiler alert: that there is the Grand Canyon.

  

 Practicing for the big day: 5-days to Xmas and Kian is already opening presents.

5 days ago I couldn't have told you the name of the little red bird that Kian is packing around in most of these pictures but everywhere we go people give him the thumbs up, and now that I know of Angry Bird I'm seeing it everywhere.  Yeah, he had his Grandpa isolated in the mall and suckered him into buying that for him.  We should have known that Pappy wasn't strong enough yet to resist Kiki's charms.