Sisters Trip

All of my sisters, except Rachel (we missed her!), jumped on airplanes and met up in Arizona for a weekend get-a-way. Our first stop was to spy on Taylor and Janelle because he had plans to surprise her with the ring. Our job was to deliver the hundredth balloon of a previous series of 99 with reasons he loves Janelle. We dropped off the balloon to the "spot" and ran to hide. We were able to videotape the entire proposal from our secret location without them seeing us. It was great!

Right after the proposal we ate a fabulous dinner at the country club. 

Taylor and Janelle were so cute. After the proposal we assumed they would want to be alone since they are living in separate states at the moment but they wanted to stay with the whole family that night...and all weekend. We had so much fun getting to know Taylor. I think he will fit in just fine!

In the 3 days we were together, we ate out at 5 different restaurants!! We had to get our fill of the yummy food we don't have by us. 

Poor Taylor was the only boy ALL weekend long. And he was such a good sport...even about sitting in a nail salon for 2 hours while we all got mani's and pedi's. 

Alexis joined us and we had a fun visit and a nice soak in the hot tub.

Christine and I sneaked away with Erica for dinner at The Cheesecake Factory one night. We came home with over 5 different cheesecakes! It was so much fun to catch up.

Aunt Heather and Uncle Paul were so generous to all of us and rolled out the red carpet for this wonderful trip.

We played tennis...then took a stroll down memory lane visiting all our old homes and we got to see the new Gilbert Temple...then we relaxed by the pool and picked juicy oranges from the trees in the yard.

(Heather Sandstrom, Laurel Udall)

We got some good shopping in at Scottsdale and Dana Park in Mesa.

The LOVE BIRDS...Taylor and Janelle

On our last night in town, Taylor set up all his DJ equipment and put on a dance party for all of us. 

We dance and jumped around for two hours straight. It was so much fun.

We try to get together as sisters once a year and this year we were able to ALL sneak away without kids...and husbands! 

We love having Hand-Stand-Contests. We've done this since we were kids. My mom just happened to snap a picture of it.

This is a group picture of us sneaking a peek at the proposal of Taylor to Janelle.

We are in the locker room at the Superstition Mountain Country Club.

(BarbaraJo Hatch, Louisa Matheny, Mom (Laurel Udall), Ashlyn Sandstrom, Christine Hull and baby Lincoln, Heather Sandstrom)