Camping with Cousins

Headed up to Prescott and drove around a bit looking for a place to camp. It was about 2 hours, I am ashamed to say but it was just Alli and I and a bunch of anxious kids. The husbands were thankfully bringing up the rear later in the evening. So there was less stress. Just Alli and I bouncing around in the wilderness (oh and the kids) looking for just the right spot, (for one night). Finally landed somewhere near the Potato Patch.

It was a little warmer than I like to camp, But that means, warm nights. So that's good. Tyler got some new guns and had an itchy trigger finger for his birthday. We already had 2 bbguns, now we have 2 other ones. A 22 rifle and another 22 that can convert into a 12 gage shot gun. I know this well because I was sent to Walmart to buy the bullets.

Everybody got a turn on the bbguns. The older boys got to man the 22's.

If you look close you can see the cartridge flying in front of Oscar's face.

Uncle Ryan, the crack shot.

All the boys love climbing the trees.

Portrait of a happy young man. Not a boy anymore.

Wyatt had many offerings for the fire.

This last picture was cool. I set up the camera and then as it was taking the slow shutter image, Tyler and all the kids walked right past the camera carrying a flash light. This is the result. Pretty cool.

Emmett's 2nd birthday

I have neglected my blog sadly. These pictures have been foundering on photobucket for months. But it is finally here. The pictures from Mitter's birthday. I got inspired by my cousins kid's cake. Amory was born 1 day before Emmett. They are on the East Coast and I saw the cake before I went to bed the day before and made my brain to the mental acrobatics that it takes to figure out how to make it. Ok maybe it is easy for you to see, but it took me a while. The boys were very enthusiastic about the cake.

Emmett watched it bake. He was so cute, he could sense the excitement.
There they are. I did them in loaf pans, so I could just cut slices from the bottom up.
It looks good, It tasted ok but not super good. Not adult eating cake good. Just used a mix.
Litte Mitters got some toys and was very happy from the attention. Love these pictures of him and his daddy. He is a lucky kid. And that is a lucky dad too.




Our little caboose is a delight in our house. We are so grateful to have him in our family

Outing in Payson. Beautiful

Allison gets these ideas in her head. Let's liken them to a bee in her bonnet. "Let's go to the woods and take a 5 mile hike. Jeff needs it for cub scouts." Ok. Im game. I wasn't too sure about the 5 mile hike but I knew I could always take the weak ones and quit early. Grandpa decided to be the protector on our outing and we were grateful. Those bears were vicious, VICIOUS!. Thanks Grandpa. You are the best.

Big rocks to climb and sticks to throw. We had sandwiches, Cheetos, and gatorade for lunch. It rained a tiny bit and was so pretty.

Everyone took turns walking across this cool log.

Oscar and his defiance. You will not get a good picture of me. I'll make sure of it.

Alli and her little bird. Peter couldn't figure out how to bite the end of the camelback and then suck the water out so Alli spit in his mouth. Yes folks. The picture is prettier than the act.

A walk in the woods did us some good. Thanks Alli for getting us out of the house.

Mission Beach- the Kids and the Fun

The babies and I went on a walk and YY got tired so he wanted to sleep on this nice comfy bed on the boardwalk.

He also found a little peice of paper and was convinced that it would help him to read all words. So he would go around comparing it to all the words he saw. Headless on the on coming traffic on the boardwalk. He almost got creamed a couple of times because he would dart across the walkway to see some words.

Tyler just had to have these sunglasses. So we finally got our selves down to the Belmont Amusement Park. When I say finally I mean that we saw them on like Monday and he kept asking me to take him and I finally believed him enough to go. Poor kid. He still has them and takes good care of them.

Guest photographer Nunu. Thanks for these next 4-5 pictures.
Group shot at the tide pools. Can you see Ollie twice.? That kid hid behind his mother during the picture. Well we fixed his wagon.



Alli, you haul your cookies down to the beach for some guy?

This picture was funny because Amanda didn't know there was a guy behind Alli until she saw it later. Well it was funny to us.
Nate got to come out for a short time.
Got a really pretty picture of Nunu baby.
This Laser thing was fun. The kids spent a lot of time trying to beat their times and going in and out It was fun to watch.
They were all obsessed with getting the fastest time.
I love this one of Ry. Makes me laugh.
My sweet Wesley

Best mirror ever. ha