Coming soon.....

because 13 is not too old to be a kid ( I am so glad for that!!!!)

My sweet, adorable, fantastic, and fun daughter has requested this for her birthday!

We are having a backyard carnival fit for a 13 year old princess...complete with a clown bounce house, cotton candy, popcorn, snow cones and corn dogs.

Pictures coming next week!

Happy birthday baby...I love you.

Hanging out at the Lake...

At Lynx Lake in Prescott

What a difference a few years make!

At the same time this makes me so sad and so proud!
3rd Grade 2004






















4th Grade 2005

5th Grade 2006

6th Grade 2007

7th Grade 2008

8th Grade August 10th 2009...gulp!

Love you baby! Good luck this year!

Back to school!

Yes it's that time already! Emily is very excited about starting 8th grade. We picked up her reading and workbooks tonight at Barnes & Noble. To Kill a Mockingbird, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Beowulf, Lord of the Flies and other are on the list this year.

Wicked....BFF's

We got to see the Broadway musical Wicked last night at ASU's Gammage auditorium in Tempe. It was amazingly good, the music is so great and the story of two witches who become best friends and forever change each other is so touching! It makes me so happy to know that I am lucky enough to have a Bestie and a BFF!



I love you both so much, you have both changed my life For Good!

Kayaking and Eagles

We had a great day kayaking last weekend north of Payson at Woods Canyon Lake. There was an eagles nest on the bank of the lake and we were lucky enough to see both the adult eagles and the 10 week old eaglet. Here is one of the adults...


You can see the nest in the middle of the picture at the top of the tree.
There were a couple of game and fish workers at the lake with spotting scopes keeping track of the eagles and we were able to get a good close up look at the nest while one of the adults was delivering some food to the eaglet. The young eagle is all dark when it's born and won't get it's typical white head and adult coloring for a few years.
While we were watching the young eagle was hopping around the nest spreading his wings and testing them out. It will be another week or two before he can fly and leave the nest for the first time. We felt so lucky to have been there this week to get a good look at them!

Bill and Jon mastering the art of the chill-yaxs

Game and Fish workers monitoring the nest.....Just one more job that is cooler than mine......

Oh and I can't forget to mention that Bill made us a kickin' Lee Bros. fried chicken box lunch with cole slaw potato salad and a biscuit! YUM!

Sidewalk Chalk Cousins

the kids were drawing with sidewalk chalk the other night but I didn't see these cute chalk cousins until today and it made me smile!