riding horses

More summer fun, riding horses and finding frogs and lizards in the yard. We do summer reading, concerts at the park, walks around the lake, hiking, bike riding, playing in the yard, a little school work to catch up, tee ball, and house work. To say the least we are anything but bored:)

Summer Fun

Met the backus family at slide rock az for a fun birthday for karissa. The big number 7!! we have been doing a lot of fun family things in between working on the house this summer. We love the Backus family thanks for meeting us!!

Good times

Summer is going good we are trying to finish up some of our house projects before my parents come and do more. We bought an older home so that we wouldnt have house payments and are fixing it up for those that didnt know. Yes it has been a lot of work, but I have to say no payments is pretty nice. We planted our garden a bit late this week, but hope to get some yummy food at the end of summer. One of jonathans athletes did great at regionals in the heptatholon 14th out of the whole southwest- he was pretty proud of her. Enjoy summer everyone- we sure are:))

more sea world and beach

more photos of our trip-we took hundreds of photos so these are just a few i picked out while the kids were swimming in the pool with dad.

Sea world trip

Headed out to san diego for sea world and had a blast. We spent four full days a sea world and then some time at the beach too. The girls all had fun and kyra is now loving the big roller coasters- uggh:) Hey it is better then going on the tea cup ride with the little ones a million times though. We are addicted to staying at holiday inn now-it is such a nicer hotel for families. Well we will be headed home today, one long nap for most of us:)

Finally posting pictures

New house with lots of projects.... here are some pictures finally. One of the zoo and one of kyras 9th birthday too. Not having the net at home makes it harder to post. I am posting at safeway parking lot with free wireless:) Miss you all and hope to see people when they are heading through town:)

Moving in and Fixing up

So we are in our new home now and have worked 10 12hr days and are starting to get things ready to move in now. Our new home is a bit of a fixer upper unlike the other homes we have bought. But it is looking a lot better everyday. I hope to have some pictures in the future-right now i am still lucky to get a shower once in awhile. We had to stay at a hotel for a week so we are glad to be out of there.

So we have, tiled, new heat ducting, replaced water heater, replaced doors, lights indoor and out, put tons of trim up with paint, closet doors , gutted bathrooms and redone, finished a lot of grouting, redone gas, new appliances, and much more. So we have been busy and with the tons of help from my parents- we would be really deep in it still if it werent for them. We are still all alive and well though still, we hope to unpack some of our things this week. We are planning on putting our fence up this week too though:0 We miss all our friends in NM and hope all is well. Sorry I havent kept you posted till now. XOXOX