A little girl time

Thought I'd share a few pictures of my girls today. They've turned out to be so much more girlie than myself (which I guess, really isn't that hard). They bring a lot to the house and are great helpers.

Paxton eating a sardine & mustard sammy. Don't let the look on her face fool you, she really likes them. Her taste for them comes from Spencer.....I would never even put something like that on my own plate, let alone on one of my children's.


Here is a blast from the past....I loved her curls and miss them. When we cut her hair 6 months or so ago, I was hoping they would have reappeared, but nothing. She's cute with straight hair to though!


Daisy doing what she loves to do. Not many days pass that I don't hear "Mom, lets make a recipe!" She loves to help in the kitchen and especially likes to make chocolate chip cookies


Always dancing. Here she just finished showing us her dance move. Next time you see her ask her to show you. It's a good one. Although she may not be wearing all the accessories seen here, you'll still like it.


Macy is crawling now and pulling herself up to everything. She also recently got her two bottom teeth. She's still a pudgy little thing and we love to pinch her.


And I think her hair is going to stay dark like Daisy's. Sweet Macy Bean Jean.

Bow Ties

Spencer's grandma sent us these great looking bow ties for the boys. If I remember right one of his cousins made them as a fundraiser for girls camp and Grandma McClendon bought up a good number of them and sent them out to all her great grandsons.



I thought they looked handsome! You cant tell from the picture, but Caden was not happy about wearing it. He smiled all sweet and happy like and as soon as I said we were done he ran to his room, took it off and replaced it with a regular necktie.
He is already concerned with appearances and didn't even want to put it on for the picture. I hope it doesn't last.

Daisy is all about getting into every photo possible.

Summer -Part 2

Memorial day we went to Tucson for the morning and visited with the Gibson family. It went like other memorial days past....meet at Spencer's Grandpa's grave site. Visit, remember him and hear stories of his life. Afterward we hop on over to a church park and visit more, eat, play softball, jumping castle & water fun for the kids. It's always a nice day and a good crowd!

A few days later we traveled up to Pinetop to spend a couple of days visiting with my Mom & Asa. We did this last year too with them and had such a nice time that we all decided to do it again this year.


Upon arriving at the resort the kids quickly changed for a nice dip in the pool.

Cannonball Caden

Calvin with Hunter

Other on-site activities the kids enjoyed were the game room, playground, basketball, teatherball and others





We spent an afternoon visiting with my Uncle Doug & Aunt Susan and their kids. Doug made us dinner and it was delish. He made 2 roasts in his pit. I've never had such amazing flavor and such a juicy roast as this was. He made his own BBQ sauce as well and there was other food to, but all I can remember was the meat. Mmmmm!

Summer rundown: Part 1

Well, summer has been wonderful to this point. We've been busier than I thought we'd be, which I don't mind at all. I was worried at the beginning of summer how I was going to keep the troops entertained for the 10 week break. We've been at a nice steady pace of busy, and events/things-to-do have been evenly spaced out. We're down to the last 4 weeks before school is back in session. Surely I can make it through 4 more weeks!
We had little league. This year Caden and Paxton were in two different leagues, so it made for a lot of nights at the ball field. Fun nights though. Caden's team was all LDS kids except for one, so we were always in good/fun company. I failed in taking pictures this year. Not even one of either child. I do however have a picture of Daisy. One night at a game, while running full speed, she tripped and her face broke her fall. It happened right in front of a lady who then carried her to me. She said she hit her face first. I checked and she didn't have even the smallest scratch on her hands or knees. Her nose bled like crazy, but she came out of it all ok.

We took a quick overnight camp out. This worked out nicely with being able to drop Macy off at G-ma/G-pa Hansen's for the night on our way up to the Pinals. It was a cold evening, but much fun. We shared the mountain that night with a stake from Mesa for their Father and Sons activity.




The kids requested scary stories and Spencer rattled off a few. Since that night Daisy has been telling the same stories. Next time you see her, ask her to tell you about "LARGE MARGE". Another one of my favorites that she tells, starts out with her in her scary voice saying, "Once upon a time, there was a man. And she was a girl...." She also likes to hold a flashlight below her chin, shining it up, while telling a story. She's a little riot!