July is almost over

And school will be starting soon. I can't believe it. It just seems like summer started. Where has the time gone? I love summer time except when we are trying to sell our house. It is hard to keep it clean all day long. The kids are doing a great job with their chores and keeping the house clean. It helps that we aren't home a lot but I appreciate their hard work.
I register the kids this week for school out in Edgewood. Route 66 Elementary School starts August 13th for Caleb and Kailei. Payton starts kindergarten on Monday, August 17th. Edgewood Middle School starts on August 20th for Parker. Should be fun times! I think the kids are excited to start school.

We have fish

Ok, not real fish but my kids LOVE the water. Payton can now swim without her floaties and she is so excited. She likes having the comfort of her vest but she can total swim without it. Presley LOVES to swim without her floaties. She jumps off the diving board at my friend Dana's house. I let her come up to the top before she grabs my hands. She can hold her breath for a long time and when she needs to get a breath she gets her head above the water, sometimes she even floats on her back. She is so funny. She is still working on getting a breath when she gets her head out of the water, but she is like a little fish. We are enjoying the time we can spend at the pool. That seems to be the thing we do when we get a call that a relator is coming to the house. Many people are looking at the house, we are just waiting for the right family to want our home. I can't believe that school will be starting in a month. YIKES!!!! We are having a great summer and we hope you all are as well.

Girls are fun!

I always love to take pictures of my girls, especially when they all cooperate.

They had fun taking these pictures with their matching 4th of July shirts.

Happy 4th!

It is a little late but I am finally getting around to blogging. Our family spent our 4th in Gilbert, AZ with my mom and my brother Tyler and his family. My dad was on his motorcycle ride to Laguna Seca for the Moto GP races. Joe usually goes with him but he sold his bike and didn't go this year. We had a great time, even though it was rather HOT, we went swimming atleast 3 times a day. Thank goodness I have a family that loves the water. Presley especially was a little fish. She decided that she didn't want to swim with her floaties and it was rather funny. She can almost get her head out of the water when she swims without floaties. Payton can swim without her floaties but she feels more comfortable with them on. We had a great time! Parker and Caleb always love the 4th because we buy fun fireworks and they get to put on the firework show for all of us.

Stamp Camp Weekend

I had my annual Stamp Camp in Flagstaff with my Close to My Heart Business Upline. We had a blast. There were 13 ladies from Tuscon, Las Vegas, NV and Albuquerque. I made tons of cute things. As you can tell by the picture of my work place. I always come back motivated to build my business and then reality hits and I just don't have the time right now. But I love creating fun things, especially scrapbooking. I am really getting into that. I am trying to work on Payton's book because she noticed the other day she doesn't have a lot of pictures in her book. Walgreens is having their 50 prints for $5.00 right now and so I am getting pictures printed that I can put in her book.

These are my dear friends, Buffie, who lives in Edgewood, NM (she will be my neighbor, kind of, when we move to our new house) and Mandy, who lives in Fredonia, AZ. We have been to 7 Stamp Camps together! We are Stamp Camp Snobs, but we love to go and create and just have girl fun.....Had a great revitializing weekend and glad to be home with my family.

Baseball is over

YEAH!!!The boys had a great season with their teams. Parker had his last game on June 10th and Caleb had his last game on June 13th. We just had Caleb's banquet at Dion's Pizza last night. I got a nice gift card for being the team mom. The boys had a fun season! I will post pictures of Parker once I upload them.

My Girls

We have been so busy that I haven't had time to take pictures. So, the other day I decided to dust off the camera and use it. The girls thought it was so much fun.



My mom was here visiting for a week. We had a fun time hanging out and running all over with the kids. Her back was hurting and so I told her she needed to come and visit and get her back worked on everyday she was here. She felt a lot better. Since she was here we decided to take a trip to the baseball park to have a family baseball game. It was lots of fun. It was the girls against the boys, needless to say we didn't keep score. Joe didn't bat, he was the designated pitcher. It was a fun family game, it pays to have lots of children!!!