Whose Feet?

OK, whose feet are they? Any guesses??????

Big 8

We celebrated Zachary's 8th birthday last night (after 8) due to the busy day! He didn't mind though. Grandma and Grandpa Thomas came over for a late dinner and Melanie came too.







A package from the grandparents in Nebraska came earlier that day, so they had a good time opening that and reading the comics.

(Grandma Stara always wraps her packages in the comics.
Double bonus = presents + fun reading!)

For the past year Zachary has been riding Ben's bike all that he can - for he thought that his bike was too small. So, whenever Ben wasn't riding his bike, Zach was on it! Guess what Zach got for a b-day present this year?

That makes about nine bikes in our garage now (plus all those Razor scooters that don't have kickstands - so they lay all over the garage)... we need a BIGGER garage! AUGH!

Guess Who?

I was looking at some old pictures & found these two cuties - can anyone guess who they are?

June Birthdays

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Since we aren't to particular about celebrating the birthday on the actual day, we waited until this weekend for Garrett, June 2, and Paige, June 11, and Karl Watkins. Three for one.

Garrett had a party with Friends, but this was Paige's off year so she only gets a family party and a date with Mom and Dad.

Garrett decided he wanted a gymnastics party, well really he just wanted to jump into the foam pit. So we obliged.



Then Mom and Dad came over last minute.
(the rumor is true they put me in the bishopric. Heaven help our ward)

So Sunday we ate (Rib eye Steaks and BBQ Shrimp)



All three blew out candles on their birthday cupcakes at the same time.



And finally the kids got to open some presents.



Dad and Garrett figured out paper airplanes and Paige and Mom chatted.



And when Mindy got on the trampoline, which is not often, the whole family had to pile on.



A busy weekend but just one more week of school and summer starts. In fact Paige and Kate are flying to AZ on Friday morning to hang out with Sam and Alison.

Havasupi

I need to get my blog up and running again, but in the meantime, I thought I would tell you what we did this weekend!

Jeff and I, and 6 other couples, backpacked to Havasupi in the Grand Canyon. We stayed for 3 nights and then packed out. It was amazing!

I felt like I was on Goonies - exploring caves and waterfalls. It was so much fun, and a great workout. 10 miles in and 10 miles back out. (Some of my friends rode a horse out and 2 took the helicopter - cheaters!)

Thanks for babysitting Melanie - the kids loved you - and your chicken casadillas!

Sedona Style

This past weekend we took a quick trip up to Sedona with Alice & Jay Dewitt (Glenn's cousin). It was just WONDERFUL to escape the 103+ temps this weekend - it was around 85 in Sedona, but so much cooler in the evenings (55+)!

But... Before we could "hit the road" and get out of Mesa, Emma and I took a quick trip to the Urgent Care Center. As I was talking to Alice and getting directions, Emma was in the pantry trying to get the "fishy crackers!" She climbed onto the shelving (the first step) and with her hands grabbed an upper shelf with the crackers. The shelf slid out, took her to the ground and put a gash across the bridge of her nose! The gash is about 1/2 inch long and the blood began to flow.



I picked her up and applied pressure and told Nick and Chris to get into the van. I put Emma in her carseat and Nicholas took hold of the papertowel and we flew over to Gilbert & Brown (nice and close). They got us right in and within an hour we were walking out with two stitches and a band-aid. The stitches will come out on Wednesday. She's a trooper! (Glenn was out and about with Ben and Zach running a few errands. They met us at the UCC.)

We got home, continued packing the truck and took off. Where do we begin... we all had a GREAT time...

SLIDING AT SLIDE ROCK - the water was cool but it did not stop us!

(Glenn, Collin, Zach, Emma, Ben, Chris & Nick)

SWIMMING & HIKING - All that the boys wanted to do was go hiking and go swimming in the lake - they did not have much desire to do the zip line or play ping pong. Boys loves to hike by the stream and that's that!

ZIP LINE - This is always a treat, as long as Glenn and Jay can get the rope high enough!



BIKING - We haven't biked down in Mesa for the past few months. It's just been way to hot! So, it was GREAT to get the bikes out and go for a ride.



PING-PONG and SWINGING - just being together was fun for EVERYONE!




(Chris, Jack, Emma Lee & Mary)

If I could have taken just ONE MORE PICTURE, it would have been of Christopher. Screaming Bloody Murder! This is our only child that is TOTALLY TERRIFIED of any type of insect. The Great Outdoors - you said it - it's packed with insects!

Poor Christopher, even sitting on the toilet he was scanning the walls, watching for any movement of moths, daddy long-legs, beetles, bugs. Screaming at ANYTHING that moved! And at night, terrible dreams of bugs in his bed... on and on and on I could go with this one! :)

Swimming

Christopher and Haley have had a FUN time doing swim lessons together! When we found out that Linnea had signed Haley up at Stapley Pool at the same hour, we were SO SO HAPPY! So, for the past 2 weeks they've been having a blast! And guess what - we're going to do 2 MORE WEEK of it! YEAH!