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!

Chinese anyone?

Oh, yeah. In case you weren't aware, I'm a mom! So I decided I would have a picture taken this year with all my lovely children on mothers day.

Aren't they sweet?

A funny little story I'll share, because you can see the evidence here in the photo...

One day I was talking to Caden about kids at school and how sometimes they tease others. And that sometimes something may be true about someone, it can hurt their feelings if others are always bringing it up and talking about it.
He said, "yeah, like sometimes my friends at school will say that I look like I'm Chinese." I couldn't help but let out a little laugh. Then I apologized and told him he could blame me for that one. I got that all the time as a youth. IN fact I still get it. Spencer teases me all the time about my squinty little eyes!

So here we stand out in the bright sunlight of the morning and I see that possibly 3 of my 5 kids have my eyes.