This is Beautiful Kylah. I was able to take

pictures of her 2 weeks ago. Isn't she a doll?

She was so much fun to work with.

VISITORS!

We were so excited to have Grandpa and Grandma Clifford

come to town with GG and Andrea. They stayed for a little over a week.

Unfortunately we didn't take nearly enough pictures. Which

is ridiculous because I got a new DSLR right before they got

here. I am an idiot!!!! Here you see we had a great time in the

pool. The kids loved to swim with the family. We even got Shadow

to get into the pool. We did all sorts of fun things when they

got here. We all went to see "Get Smart" . That was a great

family movie. I could watch it again and again. Grandma

made some awesome french bread and homemade rolls

for pulled pork sandwiches. Jake made an awesome

homemade BBQ sauce, and between the two I was in heaven.

We had Uncle Jerry and Ben over for 4th of July. We were

going to watch fireworks. But we had a huge Monsoon roll in

and the cities cancelled the fire work displays. That's OK though.

We also went to Sedona for the day and had a picnic at slide rock.

Uncle Jerry wanted to show us Jerome, so we went and

had an icecream stop there.(Pictures to follow)

We had a great time and can't wait to see everyone again.

Liz's new haircut!!
Liz decided to cut off her hair. She has got
this great spiky new cut. I don't know who
is having more fun with the new do, me or her.
I love spiking and playing with her hair. I
wish I had the guts to cut off my locks.

More Proof
Here is more proof that Jake and Shadow love
each other. Jake got a new shot gun belt and
tried it on Shadow.

Yeah!!!!!!

Ben has moved to Flagstaff Arizona.

It probably won't be for very long, but

I am glad that he will be here for a little while.

He was transferred for his job. I am so

glad he is here. We are going to have lots

of fun while he is here.

We can't have our summer start without having

our annual End of school celebration at

Coldstone. I can't wait till school starts so we

can go back. Yummy!!!!!

Memorial Day Weekend

Here are a few pictures from Memorial Day weekend.

We had Uncle Jerry and Ben over. We had BBQ'd

steak and shrimp. Yummy!!!!! We also had

some homemade Strawberry Icecream. As

you can see Shadow also had his very first bone.

We all had a great time. And as you can see

Jake was testing out the water in the pool.

My Son Sam!!!

The best way to describe him is a typical teenager.

He has his own mind and is very stubborn. And

a little creative as well.

This story starts with Sam working hard on

earning merit badges for his Eagle.

He wanted to work on the Reptile merit badge.

I asked him what it entailed. And he said that he had to

observe a lizard for a month. Ok. I hate lizards, and spiders, snakes, anything

creepy and crawly. So I turned him down. Knowing that it was not

an Eagle required I said that I was not going to spend any money

on a yucky lizard. He was a little mad at me, but I thought I

won because I didn't hear anything more about it. Until a few days

later there was a big rubbermaid container without a lid that

had a yucky lizard in it. I was thinking what the heck, where

did he get that? Well sure enough he caught it. At a park in our

neighborhood. And I really couldn't turn him down because

I didn't have to spend any money on the yucky thing.

The only thing I did have a problem with was that

we couldn't find the top of the container he had the lizard in

and he was also catching crickets. And I could not handle the thought of

yucky crickets roaming my house. So we did get a little container with

a lid on it. I did have a little freak out when Sam caught this

huge outdoor cockroach that was like an inch wide and 2 inches long!

There was a little yelling on my end at that time. So I also had

Jake buy Sam already dead crickets so Sam didn't have to find

yucky bugs for food. Now that Sam realized that one Lizard was

great. He also thought more would be better. So I walk in

his room and find 2 more lizards in make shift cages. OK. I thought

I was being a good mom, letting him keep one. But I put my foot

down on 3!!! So I did make him release the others to the wild.

So it has been past the 30 days. And the lizard is still alive. He did

loose his tail. But he seems to be doing well. Actually

someone told us the lizard is a she. So she is doing well.

These pictures are all taken by Sam who is documenting

his little experience for his merit badge.

Shadow and Jake

Even though Jake says that he doesn't

like dogs, he does enjoy a little cuddle time

with Shadow at night.

SHHHHHH!!!Don't let him know I told you :)

Family Cooking Night!!

We found a fun recipie in our Rachel Ray

cookbook. And we had a great time cooking

together. Cooking is one of our family's

favorite pastimes.

Back in Action!!!

Sorry for the long absence. I can't believe all the stuff

I haven't put on the blog so hopefully in the next few days

I can catch things up!!! I downloaded a card full of pics

and realized that I have not done a good job in keeping

up on everything. So enjoy all the pics from the last

few months.

hey everyonethis is liz, we had our grandparents,aunt and our great grandma at our house for about a week and we went to sliderock in sadona. It was so much fun Even the water was COLD it felt so nice to swim in but watch out for the rocks they are so very slippery.