Sunday Fun

My brother comes over most sunday's for dinner with us. He has a lot of fun playing with the kids. They really love playing card games with him. I think Kayla is probably the only one in her kindergarten class who knows the exact names of every card in the deck and knows how to deal. This time though they played with the bean bags. It's amazing how many games they can come up with just using some bean bags. Their favorite game of the evening was seeing who could sit back at the couch and slide the bean bag across the kitchen floor and under the pantry door. Kayla thought that was hysterical.

Cake or frosting ?

My kids always like to make cake but for some reason, I really think they just like the frosting on the top. They prefer a graham craker with frosting on it to a piece of cake any day. So....the question goes out....are you a frosting person or a cake person or both. I personally have always liked cake by itself. How about you?

Rob & Shelly's Wedding

My neice, Shelly, was sealed on Thursday to her fiance', Rob Cook, and then the reception was on Saturday in Tucson. Kayla had her very own special "Wedding Dress" as she called it. She has looked forward to wearing this dress for months.

We traveled to Tucson on Friday to help my sister set up for the reception. We were about 35 or 40 minutes into our journey and the car began to overheat. So we had to stop, turn around, drive with the heater on all the way back home to keep the car from overheating. That was one hot ride. It was all worth it though. It was a beautiful reception and we had a lot of fun being there and helping my sister set up.

We haven't had much luck with air conditioning this summer. Our air conditioner on our home went out about 3 weeks ago. We had to spend the night with my brother out in east mesa one evening while we waited for it to be fixed. Before we could leave home though we had to pack and get things ready. During this time Kyle comes out of his room from playing a game and said "It's so hot in here my Butt's sweating". I thought that was very observant of him. Ha! Ha!

Family Outing

Just the week before school started we went on a Family Reunion to Springerville, Arizona. It was a lot of fun. We spent three days and two nights in Pinetop/Lakeside with my sister's family. We always have so much fun spending time with family. These pictures are when we went fishing on the North Fork of the White River. This is where I spent all my youth during the summer months. We always went camping here ever summer with my grandparents and aunt and uncle. We ended up just being able to spend two evenings there this time doing some fishing. The first evening we were there it just steadily rained on us. Not a hard rain, just enough to get you wet over about an hour or so. The second evening we went the weather was perfect. We had a campfire and really enjoyed the time with family. All the kids were able to catch fish, so that made them really happy.

This one's for the Boys

The boys think they're being left out. Of course their reaction to the 1st day of school isn't quite what Kayla's was. They'll get over it I'm sure. Once they hit the playground and classrooms with their friends.

I think the backpack is bigger than her

It took us a long time to find a backpack that Kayla loved. We finally just ran into this one at Costco two days before school began. She loves it. It's just so hard to find something that isn't bigger than she is. When it was packed with all the school supplies for the 1st day, I think it weighed close to what she weighs.

We are also very luck to have one of our really great friends teaching for her 1st year and she is Kayla's teacher. It has made leaving my little girl at school so much easier. Thank you Mrs. Shafer, you're wonderful.

1st Day of School

Well They're off and I'm alone. The first time I've been alone all day from 8:30 to 3:30 in 11 years. It's a funny feeling. It really is. I'm not sure what to get done first. I mean whatever I do first will for the 1st time stay done until 3:30 when they come home to undo what I've done.

Every Princess Needs a Crown?

Kayla got this crown for her 5th birthday in April. Since then she has decided to wear it everywhere we go. She knows how to draw attention to herself. The crown and the leopard are her new favortie things. I hope it lets up a little with her starting school this week. The leopard has a favorite game at night called "Let's find Leopard". Ultimatly the leopard has been left somewhere during the day and at bedtime we get to find it before Kayla will go to sleep. She never was attached to anything until she found this leopard in her toy box about 3 months ago. It's already undergone two "surgeries" to fix it's arms. Hopefully it will last until she decides it has served her purpose.

Pool Time

This is one of the kids most favorite things to do. Luckily we have a really great neighbor who lets us have use of their pool anytime we like. It really saves us in the summer. I much prefer a private pool to a public one.

Jumping in with both feet

Okay, here goes nothing. I've finally decided to join the blogging world. I've had a lot of fun keeping up on my friends blogs, so maybe they'll enjoy mine as well. Can't promise I'll be as up to speed as the rest of you, but I'll give it a shot. Maybe now I'll try harder to remember to take more digital photos.