Tombstone

My parents came down for a visit last weekend and we took them to Tombstone, a little town in southern Arizona known as the town that never dies.

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We found a petting zoo with several different animals. Including a Emu.

There were several choices for gun fights. We opted for the "origional" gunfight at the OK Corall with Wyatt Earp, Doc Holiday, and the other law men against the Clantons and McLaurys.


The town was burnt down twice but rebuilt. It is like taking a walk down a street back in the olden days. The people that work in the different shops look and act like they are stuck in the early 1900's. We had a fun time. As always the kids loved having Gramy and Papa come to visit!

Lot's Going On

Gavin turned one!!! We went up to Utah at the last minute to celebrate. Our flight got in at 2 in the afternoon and by 5 people were at my parent's house for a party!

It didn't take Gavin too long to figure out that he liked that frosting!

Before Picture

Gavin got his first haircut. My mom is a beautician so she gets to do the honors.

After the big boy haircut!

While we were in Utah we visited the This Is The Place Monument & Pioneer park.

All of the workers dress up like pioneers and they have different shops and houses set up like the olden pioneer days. It was neat to learn about the blacksmith, printing, and banking practices.


A lot of my time has been spent on this dog! I had heard people say that getting a dog is more work than having a baby and now I can say that I completely agree. We decided to name her Dotti. She is almost 12 weeks old. I have to keep reminding myself that when she has accidents. Thanks to a my friend Heather P. We now have Dotti on a strict potty schedule, also known as crate training. All this past week I have been taking her out to potty every single hour. Well, except for during the night. Although I do get up once during the night to take her out. She actually has been a pretty good dog considering she is a puppy. She doesn't really bark or whine. I'll keep you posted on how things are going because I'm sure that you totally interested!

If you made it this far there is a bonus. Check out my other friend Heather's blog to see some cute pictures of my boys! http://delightfulphoto.blogspot.com/

How Did This Happen???

School is in Session!

Makenzi started school on July 20th. She has been going for a few weeks now and she is really liking her new teacher. She had a ton of homework the first week but that didn't give her a bad attitude. She has one friend from church in her class but she says that they don't talk in class becuase "she sits on a different table mom".


After much and many prayer and fasting we decided to keep Eli home for another year. He has been doing mommy/daddy school and that is going really well. To make up for the social aspect we are signing him up for martial arts classes. Yesterday was his first class and he absolutely loved it. They even had him break a board in front of everyone and he did it on his first try! What a boost of confidence.

Happy Birthday Eli!

5 years old! On Saturday we had Eli a birthday party and invited his friends. He wanted an army themed party this year.

We thought that it would be fun to have a water party where they could play capture the flag with water guns and have a tug of war over the pool.

Last night I tried to explain to Eli that today was going to be his real birthday. He told me that he felt like he already had his real birthday with his friend party. Today he got to open the family presents. Thanks Gramy and Papa for the great gifts! Eli was really excited about the water/sand table.

Some of Eli's favorite things right now are his little cheap army guys. He has battles with them several time every day. He is constantly building castles or defences. He likes to play outside and play with his friends. He doesn't like to eat his dinner. I'm sure that someday that will change though. We are so lucky to have such a great kid!

Gavin 11 Months Old

What??? That can't be right! It hasn't really been 11 months since this precious addition joined our family has it? I can't believe it. He finally has 2 teeth and no longer wants anything to do with baby food. I can't say that I blame him but I have a hard time finding things that I "trust" him to eat. I just bought a pampered chef food chopper and that has really come in handy because I can chop everything into tiny pieces. It makes both of us happy. Gavin is still a really happy kid. Lately he has become quite the big helper. His favorite things to help with are unloading the clean clothes out of the laundry basket, unplugging anything that is plugged in on his level, unloading the silverware from the dishwasher whether it is clean or dirty, and pulling out the fake moss in my decorative tree at least once a day.
This first picture is one of the several attempts of taking Gavin's picture inside.

As you can see I finally decided to use the outside grass trick again.