Growing like a weed....

It's been awhile since I updated. Life here has been as always, busy. Cade and Ethan have been playing flag football, and having a great time doing it. Daniel has recently started also. Allison has been learning a lot in kindergarten, and Adam has been growing and is starting to walk just a little. We had our family pictures taken in April and I feel like we need to do it again already with the growing up everyone has been doing, although I would have a hard time getting them all to want to do it!

Anyone there?

I know I haven't updated in awhile, but I was wondering if anyone is out there. It seems to me that blogs aren't updated as often anymore....mine included.

Dress mystery solved!!

I was getting down a box of halloween costumes for the kids to play dress up, and it was in there among the ninja stuff! I was so excited, the kids just looked at me like I was wierd. The sad thing is that it is almost too small for Allison to wear now, although I may get one or two more wears out of it just because it's so cute!!

Now we are back home. I might add that we drove around 35oo miles and did it with a packed car, seven people, and NO Dvd player!! And we survived!!

I should have posted this whole thing differently. I should have done it backwards so that it would post right. Oh well. After we got home, we had to get Daniel ready to off for a week to scout camp at Camp Geronimo. We got him off and he had a great time! He was home for a day or so and then we had to get him ready to leave on a road trip back east with his grandparents. Dennis has a brother who graduated from school in Pennsylvania so his parents were willing to take Daniel. They are seeing alot of church history sites as well and the Sacred Grove. THis is also a trip Dennis and I would love to take, hopefully with in the next few years, but were happy that Daniel will be able to have this testimony building experience! He's still not home and probably won't be until a few days after school has already started.

As for me and the other kids, it's just life as usual, getting ready to head back to school.

I got a new calling, activity days leader, and I'm excited to get going with that!

We'll make it home...eventually

After a several hours driving around Mesa Verde, we headed back into Arizona and were planning on making it home that night, which we did but not until we stopped at Canyon De Chelly. Neither Dennis nor I had been there either. It was a place kind of like Mesa Verde. I loved the green against the red rocks!

The Cliff Dwellers

AFter a great day driving through Rocky Mountain National Park we drove south of Denver to Littleton where we have some wonderful friends, Mark and Liz Foster who were gracious hosts and let us stay the night. It was nice to visit with them again, since they moved away several years ago.

For awhile now we have talked about visiting Mesa Verde National Park (or Monument). I had vague memories of going there when I was little and I wanted to visit again. It took us most of the day to drive to the southwestern corner of Colorado from the Denver area, and we got there that evening, and yes, we did camp and it was much warmer, although the air mattress still lost air! The next morning we drove around and looked at the cliff dwellings the indians used to actually live in. Amazing! Just a funny note, in the picture above Ethan had just taken something from Allison and she was mad, after I snapped the picture, she hauled off and slugged him, it was actually kind of funny!

MAJESTIC! Rock Mountain National Park!

The camera just doesn't do it justice, what more can I say?