Summer in Review- Grand Canyon

Okay so this is a terrible picture of us but you can just enjoy the scenery. It was breathtaking and mind-blowing to look out into this Canyon.

We are never smart enough to get someone to take a picture of all of us so here is Jared and the boys. Alan, David and Grant.

David wanted to climb under these bars and start climbing and hiking!! My heart was racing watching him try a couple of times! We will have to take him back when he is older to hike the Grand Canyon. I know he will love that sort of thing.

We rented bikes and had a fun time riding downhill the whole way to the look out. Then we had to have the bikes back by 1:30 so we were booking it the whole way back, all up hill!! We made it,  I was a little light headed when we got back. Maybe next time we will bring more water and think about lunch before hand. 

Summer in review continued - Birthdays!

So everyone in our family has a summer birthday. It's one big party after another around our house in the summer. My birthday is first followed by Alan's and then Jared's, all in June. Then July is Grant and August is David and Benjamin. I won't even start with extended family. I had yummy chocolate cupcakes that Grant and David made together. I made some heavenly frosting to go on top. Jared had cheesecake. Grant chocolate with white frosting and David funfetti. Grant's birthday was a mission impossible theme. His friends had water bombs and super soakers they split into teams and battled it out, all to the Mission impossible theme song. It was fun and I am mad that I didn't get pictures of it. What kind of mom am I??? So that's that we are all a year older and wiser too. Maybe?

Today is Ben's Birthday

This picture was taken on Ben's Birthday 5 years ago. He would be 6 years old. I am so glad he was born into our family. Today is a wonderful day to celebrate what a beautiful and loving boy he was! He got this cute John Deere tractor for his birthday thanks to Grandma Allred. He really liked playing with it.


"Snapshots taken with the heart are never lost... they become an album of beautiful moments that live forever"

Ben 8/25/2005

Summer in review Alan turns 1!

I made a carrot cake for Alan. I thought carrots would be something healthy and cream cheese frosting has cheese in it so he had cheese and carrots, not cake right?

His hair is so long now! First hair cut will have to be soon.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

Cousins came to celebrate with us.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Alan's Birthday loot.

This pinata was so full of candy that if broke off at the top from all the weight.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Summer in review part 2, Fort Bowie hike.

At the top looking at the ruins. 

Looking at a small waterfall. 

The boys inside the tepee.

 We took the kids on this 3 mile hike up to Fort Bowie. It is where a lot of real cowboy and Indian history took place. I recommend the hike to anyone. David hiked the whole way up and almost made it all the way back down before he needed a piggy back ride. 

                                          

Grant and David outside the tepee.

                                        

Our summer in review part 1

Cherries late May 2010

Yummy

David is my climber!

Grant, Tate and Shanda

Alan has a bag full on the back of his stroller!

This was fun for the whole family ,we ate cherries for a long time! We had one outing with Grandma Allred, Aunt Maren and cousins Morgan and Travis. Another with cousins Issac,Owen,Avery and Ethan, and another with friends Shanda and Tate.  Oh what do you do in the summertime? Pick cherries! 

Say Cheese!! New Pics of the boys.

Grant 9 years old

                                          

 If you look at the side of my blog I put one more picture of each of the boys.

Alan 1 year old

I just loved this picture! I know it doesn't show is face and smile, I still love it.

David 4 years old

                                                         

Grant Alan and David July 2010