A sad moment

Here you see Jeff digging a small whole to bury our "pet."

French Fry, our pet scorpion, died.

Not for lack of crickets.

Kade was the saddest and so we had a funeral after church and he got to put a handful of dirt on him.

Good-bye French Fry (notice my sarcasm, I don't consider a scorpion a pet)

Trip to Utah

We made our annual trip to Utah last week. It didn't start off too good. We were all piled in the van, and it wouldn't start. So, after a couple of tries, it started and we drove straight to buy a new battery. We drove all night to get there, which we will never do again. It was pretty rough on Jeff with the rest of us sleeping.

Then the day we got there Jeff's family had a campout at a place called Currant Creek up past Strawberry. But first, Jeff and I slept for about 3 hours, then had to get up to go. As we go outside, the van has a flat tire. So, needless to say, we were a little slow getting to the campsite. The road to get in was very rough and rocky. We were worried about our van, but it made it. And the boys were so tired, they fell asleep, even through all the bumps.

Then as the guys were setting up the tents, it rained on us. Not all the tents had all the parts, but everyone had a place to sleep.
The kids had a lot of fun just being with their cousins.

The lake was nearby and the kids loved the kayaks.

The rest of the trip was visiting family and Jeff helped his mom around her house quite a bit. This is just a nice evening outside, chillin at Nana's house.

The weather was great! We really enjoyed the evenings since it was 116 degrees the day we left Arizona.

Then, coming home, we had car trouble again. About 150 miles outside Phoenix, our air conditioner went out. We were rather hot for quite some time. After a while, it started to smell and then make a terrible noise. (we blew the compressor, or something, which got so hot it melted something next to it and had pieces of metal all inside). A rather expensive trip.

It's always nice to go, but it's always nice to come home too.

4th Celebration

Happy 4th of July! Jeff was very patriotic and decorated the house with flags.

Then some neighbors down the street coordinated a parade for kids to decorate and ride their bikes around the neighborhood, but I couldn't get my boys to do that. Instead they joined in on the neighborhood water fight.
What a way to cool off when it was about 100 at 9 am.

And, in the end, they even got Jeff.

Later in the day we had some people over for a bbq and swimming, but, dummy me, I didn't take any pictures. Use your imagination (hamburgers, hot dogs, kids swimming, you get the idea)

And, yea Arizona for all the fun fireworks we can light (that's a joke) we can't even have sparklers. So, this was our excitement, "grow" worms and

pop its. Woo-hoo!

We did end the day with going to watch fireworks. They were good, they actually started on time, we saw a wild rabbit run by, and again it was about 100 degrees.

Happy Birthday to Mom today. We will see you in a week!