Timber

I have the pictures in the wrong order so a few pics down is the picture of our hideous bottle tree that we had cut down this weekend. This tree makes a mess all year round and was not providing any shade for our home so we decided to get rid of it and plant something else. We do feel a little bad for cutting down such a mature tree but it is too late now.

These guys did a pretty good job and had the tree down within an hour, the clean up took a little longer though seemed like they were here for at least four hours. It was quite the show, I think every neighbor that was home came out to watch the tree fall.

So here is the before picture of our overgrown tree and here is a video of tree falling. Enjoy.

New AC Units

When we bought this house we knew one of the first things we would need to replace would be our 22 year old ac units. I got a few quotes and decided I would call one more place to compare prices, glad I did they quoted us 3k less than the other places. We had them installed the next week. Here are a few pics of the replacement.

I thought this picture was fun with our old "large" ac unit in between the two new units.

These are the two old units looking pretty sad getting ready to be hauled away.

Wahoo our new units in place. Thank goodness it was starting to get really hot in the house with out the AC on all day! We spent most of the afternoon in the pool. :) Now bring on lower utility bills.

strep throat

Last night after I posted about Kayla being sick she told me her throat hurt. I took a look and she had tons of white spots in the back of her throat. Poor kid. I took her to the Urgent Care this morning and the Doctor didn't even swab her throat, she took one look inside Kayla's mouth and said I will go write you a prescription. She is doing much better this evening after two doses of antibiotics. She will have to stay home from school tomorrow since she will not have been on antibiotics for more than 24 hours. I hope she is feeling well enough to go to K-Mart tomorrow they are doubling coupons up to 4 bucks! It is hard enough not being able to go on Sunday I will be upset if I can't go tomorrow too. I know I am way obsessed with my new hobby, Elizabeth was glad to go back to school so she didn't have to go to the store all the time. :)

Backyard campout

We had told Elizabeth she could sleep out in the backyard this summer and we never got around to it. So with the first week of school behind us she convinced Jared to set up the tent in the backyard. Jared even made them a campfire out of some scrap wood he had laying around. It was quite the fire, maybe a little too big for a backyard fire :) but oh well it didn't catch the house on fire. I don't know if you can see Blake's arms in the picture it is a little dark, but he has his arms up around his head just relaxing like his dad does, he is so cute. :)
We weren't going to let Blake sleep outside with the girls but he went into the tent and got in the sleeping bag and was very content, so we thought why not.... Jared and I went inside and watched a movie, about an hour into it we decided to just go check on the kids. When we peered into the tent with the flashlight Blake's face was right there. He had been up the whole time playing with Cleo and running all over the tent. That was the end of Blake's camping adventure his mean old parents made him come inside and sleep in his room. :(

About 5 in the morning Kayla came in crying that she was scared and that her stomach really hurt. Well we knew what that meant... Blake had the stomach flu a few days ago and when we felt her forehead she had a fever. I got her a bowl because I knew the vomiting would begin soon and got her to take some medicine before it started. She has been pretty sick today, slept through most of the day and couldn't keep anything down until this evening. Hopefully she will be doing better tomorrow and then ready for school on Monday. :) I know I am a mean mom.

Winter Cabin

Jared got drawn for 6B bull this year which is in Sycamore Canyon. Since we were headed up to Flag to see Jared's brother Mac come home from his mission he thought we should hike down to Winter Cabin in Sycamore Canyon. It is about an hour drive out of Flagstaff on a dirt road.
The hike wasn't too bad getting to the cabin it is hiking out that sucks. :) Oh and we forgot to bring Blake's hiking backpack so Jared and I (mostly Jared especially on the way up) got to hold him for most of the hike.
There is a little Spring just a little ways from the cabin so we hiked down to it so Cleo could get a drink. When we got to the Spring there were a ton of Wasps flying around getting a drink so the girls are telling Jared to hurry and take the picture so they could leave.
Like I said before the hike going up the canyon is pretty tough and with the altitude change it was hard to breath at times but we made it and we were all so happy to sit in the air conditioned truck when we were done. Sitting I think we take for granted, while I am sitting I don't usually think, oh wow this feels so good.... But that day just a little rest of sitting on the ground in the woods for a few minutes was like a gift from heaven. :)

The toothfairy is going broke

So in the past month Elizabeth has lost 2 teeth and Kayla has lost 3! Kayla who previously swallowed her first two teeth actually pulled out her dangling teeth with the help of Elizabeth. The first tooth she lost this month was around the time Nick got married, so with grandparents, great grandparents, and the tooth fairy in town she made 16 bucks on one tooth! Unfortunately her other two teeth she only made a buck a piece. :(

What we have been up to

Well it seems like we have been really busy and boring this month. We moved into our new home the end of last month and have been slowly unpacking. Once I unpacked all the essentials unpacking started to find a backseat to other things. We also have been cleaning up our rental to get it ready for our "final" inspection which we had yesterday, YAY we are all done with the rental!

My sister Bridgit came to stay with us for a few days before my brother Nick got married. We watched Pride and Prejudice and Lost in Austen. Before we started the movies we went to the store and bought a lot of junk food, my kids thought it was awesome! They each got to choose there own candy, very fun. One night while Bridgit was here we went out to dinner with my mom and cousin Caisa. We went to Macaroni Grill and had to each write a poem about girls night out on the table, they were pretty good but I don't remember them. We then went to dress barn to find something pink for me to wear to Nicks wedding. After that we headed to Superstition mall and listed to some sellslady try to sell us some REALLY SPARKLY makeup, she even put purple eyeshadow on me..... Apparently if you want a good deal you should keep telling them no thanks, I think the price of the makeup started at 25 bucks a piece all the way down to 10.... but we still said NO, it was really sparkly. So on the way home for girls night a sonic commercial popped into my head about two women hanging out on girls night and one of the women say at the end that they should go get some eggs and...... boil them. Well it was pretty funny because at dinner we had discussed at length how to boil eggs. :) We are so lame.

Well on the 20th of June my brother Nick and his lovely wife Katherine were marrried. They had the temple ceremony around 9 and then we all headed to the Wright House for pictures and a luncheon. It was all very nice and I am so excited for Nick to start this new chapter in his life, here are a few pictures of our kids in their flower girl outfits the Angie was so nice to make for them. Oops I must have deleted the one of Elizabeth oh well, here is a picture of Kayla in her flower girl outfit. :)