Camping 2009

July was a crazy month for us! We are so very blessed with awesome friends and did an annual camping trip with them. This year Matt surprised me with my very own paintball gun for the paintball competitions that we take very seriously...LOL.

July 2009

Bison Ranch Family Trip 2009

We had a blast in July, headed up to a timeshare in Bison Ranch with my parents and my brothers and their families! Memories are Priceless.....

Mallory's First Dance Recital

Easter 2009

Saturday Meemaw had all the grandkids over to decorate Easter eggs. We grilled Carne Asada and even got some family Karaoke in after dinner. Easter morning the kids woke up at 7am, found their baskets and waited for Matt to get home from work @ 8am. When Matt got home we had our family Easter egg hunt and got to rummage thru the candy! We then headed over for lunch at my parents house where all the grandkids get together for the big Easter Egg Hunt. I think the parents have more fun trying to find new hiding places!

The kids seemed to have alot of fun this Easter. Maddox is old enough now that he was able to hunt for his own eggs without alot of direction and Mallory had a blast with her cousins trying to find the plastic eggs with dollars in them.

Tempe Music Festival 4/03/2009

April 4th was The Tempe Music Festival. Matt and I have always loved going to concerts and an outside music festival is even more energizing! Our good friends Rob and Sarah happen to be crazy about "The Refreshments" Now known as

"Roger Cline & The Peacemakers" and when Matt and I heard that "Kid Rock" was there with "Cowboy Mouth" we knew we had to go! The concert was great but I guess that I am definitely getting older and more laid back cuz their seemed to be alot more crazy people in the world that night! I was then thinking about the crowd that probably follows "Kid Rock", cheap $20 tickets and an outside venue with 6 beer gardens probably attracted 50% of the "whiskey Tango's" I witnessed. To say the least it was a blast and memories were made!

Cabin Fever!

We went up to Pine this last weekend. Kendra, Harley and kids went with us to enjoy some much needed R & R. It was great to just head up north with no plans. We stayed at the O'Connor's cabin and are forever grateful for their hospitality. The weekend was full of relaxing on the back porch with a outside fire, smores and beautiful view of the natural forest. We took the kids fishing and found some snow for sledding on the way home. The weather was perfect! Unfortunately, I always seemed to be without my camera, guess I was too busy taking it all in. Getting away for a few days always seems to be the perfect therapy for a stress filled life!

Snow Day!!!

Finally last weekend we got to head up north to the snow! Our family loves the snow and looks forward to our snow trips! The kids are still kind of young for skiing or snowboarding so we just head up and sled! On the way up, we have made a tradition to stop at Rock Springs Cafe and eat breakfast. Maddox and Mallory found the good 'ole quarter horse rides and it took me back to when my parents would let us ride them outside of YellowFront! (Yes, We had to shop @ Yellow Front too). We are blessed in the fact that we have great friends who have a cabin in Pine and we are able to stay there anytime so we made an overnight trip. Unfortunately around 8pm maddox got a touch of the stomache bug and we headed home for comfort! As many of you know, Last Wednesday Matts Dad passed away so we are headed up again this weekend so Matt can relax and escape!