Visitors at Springtime

I LOVE SPRING! And I love my family, so when we had family visit from out of state during the first week of spring I overloaded! We had a blast, played every board game ever invented and even celebrated Spring with a silly string fight in the backyard.

Queen's Mine

My Awesome sister planned a great trip down South to Queen's Mine, Tombstone, and Kartchner Caverns all in one busy, fun-filled day!

Audree driving the wagon.

Ethan's turn to reign the horses.

Audree, Ethan, Lucy and Kenny.

Even Clark came with us!!

Howdy partner!

The town was dressed up like the good ol' days in Tombstone.

The weather was beautiful.

Scary eyes, cute baby.

I think Jamie won the "most Exhausted" award at the end of the day.

Exploring the mine.

The fun train that took us deep into the mine.

The Burninghams.

The whole gang.

Zoo Day

It was perfect day for a visit to the Phoenix Zoo! My cousin, Haley, was kind enough to help me with all the kids and we had a great time. Thanks Haley!

Audree was picked from the crowd to help out with the "show". She was very excited to hold a slimey snake!

Painting Pumpkins

Carving pumpkins was great messy fun, but it stormed the night we put them on the porch and so they didn't last very long, bummer. There was no way I was going to get all messy again so we just painted some little guys and it was great fun on a beautiful day!

September and October in Pictures

Here are the cousins waiting for the light rail in down town Tempe, reading the paper of course. Derek, Hunter, Summer, Audree, Lucy and Ethan.

Enjoying the sunshine and the water table from Aunt Emily.

I wish I had a better camera to capture this amazing sunset with. This is from our front yard.

A funny, random picture of a box in front of our library. Apparently there is no public use use.

Audree married Ethan and Lucy (cousins). I think all cousin do this at some point, right? I'm just glad it's at 3 and 4 and not older...hehe.

Val Vista Lakes