Hot as He double hockey sticks

I thought this poem my sis sent me was hilarious! especially because I LIVE HERE:) honestly I only feel this way about Az for like 2 months in the summer, the rest of the time it's great.

ARIZONA

The devil wanted a place on earth, sort of a summer home. A Place to spend vacation whenever he wanted to roam. So he picked out ARIZONA. A place both wretched and rough. Where the climate was to his liking. And the cowboys hardened and tough.

He dried up the streams in the canyons, and ordered no rain to fall. He dried up the lakes in the valleys, then baked and scorched it all.

Then over his barren desert, he transplanted shrubs from HELL. The cactus, thistle & prickly pear, the climate suited them well.

Now, the home was much to his liking but animal life he had none, so he created crawling creatures that all mankind would shun.

First he made the rattle snake with his forked poisonous tongue, taught it to strike and rattle, and how to swallow its young.

Then he made scorpions and lizards and the ugly old horned toad he placed spiders of every discrition under rocks by the side of a road.

Then he ordered the sun to shine hotter and hotter and hotter still. Until even the cactus wilted, and the old horned toad looked ill.

Then he gazed on his earthly kingdom as any kingdom would. HE chuckled a little up his sleeve and admitted that it was good.

Twas summer now and satan lay by a prickly pear to rest the sweat rolled off his swarthy brow, so he took off his coat and vest "by golly" he finally panted i did my job too well. I am going back where I came from. Arizona is HOTTER THAN HELL!

Brexen LOVES to swim

this little guy just loves the water! I have a feeling he will be swimming before long. He just cant get enough of jumping off the side and his new thing, which is DIVING, he thinks that is great! He sure looks cute in his little froggy towel:)

A trip to Bass Pro Shops

what a dork Britt, he isnt real!

Bass Pro Shops is a fav in our fam. My kids love to go see the animals, even though they are stuffed:) It was fathers day weekend, and my hubby got the itch to go. As if we didnt get enough guns, camping equipment, and such, we still had to make a trip to sportsmans right after this place. Nana & Papa went with us. Fun, Fun!

Swimming Certificate

Londyn's swimming lessons

Londyn & Beau waiting their turn to go down the waterslide. Can you tell how excited Beau is?
2 of the boys going down the slide, their faces are so funny!
Londyn ready to go to lessons, this was like the highlight of her days:))

Gosh I feel like such a slacker that Londyn just finished up swimming lessons and I havent put a post up about it yet:)) She did so great! At the end of last year she was able to swim across our pool, but really needed a refresher. I am glad to say that she is Back In The Game! Oh ya, one of the funniest things about her lessons is that she took the lessons with 3 boys, and they were always the ones to cry when being dropped off, & cry when it was their turn with mrs. Cheryl, infact 2 of the boys would cry out that they had to go pee the whole time, in hopes that there moms would rescue them. Londyn being the only girl had to show them how it was done and never cryed or anything. She would just look at them and wonder if she was missing somthing, and if maybe she should be crying too.

Poor Little guy!

My poor little boy has had it ruff this week. He is usually so happy go lucky that I new that what we thought was a little case of pink eye, just had to be more than that. I was right when I took him to the doc and found out that he had a double ear infection on top of seriously the worst case of pink eye that any of my kids have ever had. This picture says it all I am sure!! This was Brex right after he wolk up in the morning, this is as far as he could even open his eyes, I didnt just catch him in a blink. They were just glued SHUT! of course what does a true blogger do, umm duh, grab the camera before I help him to see.

What a ROCKSTAR!

Do you see the resemblence between Brad & the drink he is downing? Let me clarify. He is a rockstar! This morning after I got home from taking Britt to school (I know, can you beleive she isnt out yet!!!) anyways, I drove into the garage and got out of my car to hear air pouring out of my tire at such a rapid rate that within only a few minutes it was compleatly FLAT! I had to call Brad home to fix the problem since I had to get Londyn to swimming lessons and then later go and get Britt from school. Because my hubby is as cool as he is, without a second thought (even though it was an hour out of his way) he said that he would be there shortly. I Bet this is a time when he would have liked me to be able to put on my own spare tire, umm sorry hunny:) He did get the job done and then headed back to work.
how embarassing to drive with a missmatch:)) just kidding, I am sure I will survive for a day!
This was Brexen's way of showing support! He was all about learing how it was done. Not me, I am worried that if I learn how to change a tire that I might be expected to do it somtime:)) I wouldnt want that, isnt that what cute boys are for?

Brittany is an official Blogger!

For those who havent noticed. Brittany started up her own blog, she has spent oddles of time getting her backdrop, music and even her own shelfari bookcase. It is truly amazing to me that once I gave her the OK, she was able to sit down on the computer and do this ALL by herself! it didnt even take her very long to figure out what has taken me months to get the hang of. Kids are seriously born knowing how to do these kinds of things. Feel free to check out her blog, her site is http://brittanysdrama1.blogspot.com/. Make sure to leave her a comment, she'll love it!!

Brexen cracks me up!

Last night was the first night Brex slept in his big boy bed. I layed him right down and he fell right asleep. Easy as that! he was so proud to sleep in his new bed, the night befor we had his bed set up but didnt have the siderail up yet so we still had him sleep in his crib, poor boy, he was so sad about that.

This morning at 6:00 he climbed out of his bed and opened his door, came out in the loft and started shouting out each of our names. He was wondering were we all were, um duhh sunday morning means STILL IN BED! so we called him into our bedroom to climb up in bed with us. I am hoping this waking up early doesnt become a habit now that he has a little more freedom.

This morning I went to lay him down for his morning nap and he climbed down out of bed and came over to the door to try to get out, I was standing outside holding the handle. He only tryed one time to open it, so when it didnt work he went back over and climbed up on his bed and went right to sleep. Brad just peeked in to make sure that he wasnt asleep on the floor or somthing. He came out laughing so hard, but trying to stay quiet so he wouldnt wake Brex, but this was picture worthy how Brex had climbed in and layed so funny at the bottom of the bed. Honestly these pics dont do justice!

Sundays at Nana & Papa's

Last sunday we were at nana and papa's house for dinner like we are preety much every sunday. And things got a little out of control when it was decided that maybe Brad wouldnt be able to fit into the footstool. Well he had to find out, you just cant pass up a good bet:) so into the box he went, Tracy so graciously was smashing the lid down on top of him as you can see in the pic. Bad news is that he CAN'T fit into it with the lid down, bummer I know! the good news is, Londyn CAN fit into it:) Also the other pics are of Londyn and her cousins Madisen & Jersie, it is a zoo when we are all there, but the kids have a blast! the poor playroom sure takes a hit with all 8 kids there, and 1 more on the way in just a few more weeks (Jami). It is awesome that the cousins all get to see each other so often and be so close.

How does yeast effect bread?

Brittany has been hard at work with her science project. She finally finished and was so proud of her hard work. It really did turn out great, good job Britt!

Biosphere 2 fieldtrip

So do you totally remember that movie "Biodome" with polly shore in it, that came out like 15 or so yrs ago? Come to find out, that super cool movie was filmed right here at the biosphere in Az. And that wasnt just filming props, there really is a Biosphere. Were have I been? everyone was trying to convince me that I had to of known about it. I was quick to remind them that I havent always lived here, so I wasnt around when it was new and all over the news etc... I am kidding about the super cool part of the movie by the way, I dont really remember thinking it was all that. Anyways, today I went with Britt on her fieldtrip, we had such a fun time. That place is so cool!!! we live about an hour away from it, it is just north of tuscon.

Also I had a sitter come over with the little ones and it was so cute that when I was about to leave I was thinking that Paige (the sitter) was going to have to distract him, and that it might take him a minute to warm back up to her, but I was so wrong, he walked right over to her and took her hand to walk her up to his new bedroom to play. He is growing up so fast! and by the way he loves his new room, it isnt quite finished yet. but when are done I will post some pics.

Cute little boy for Sale, Make offer:))

I promise that Brex has lots of toys, however you wouldnt know it from the trouble he has found himself in lately. I swear every time that I turn around he is doing somthing he shouldnt be. Londyn is in the perfect tattle tale stage and is quick to grab my hand and show me what Brexen is doing. This is one of the recent things he did, he climbed a shelf and pulled down a roll of paper towels and then unrolled all of them throughout the house. He was preety proud of himself. Little stinker!