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Wow, this summer sure has gone fast which is always good and bad. When your kids are fighting and arguing over the TV remote everyday you know that summer has been long enough. We had a fantastic summer and we have been so busy that we have not had time to blog. So here is an update on all the "cookie" fun.On July 11, my friend Wendy Buhrley and I took our older kids to the Jonas Brothers Concert. I was a little leery because it was an outside concert and I thought it was going to be devastatingly hot, well it was.... But we had a fantastic time. Kelsey has asked me every week which one of the Jonas Bros. is my favorite. I can never remember what I have said to her the week before because I am not thinking that we are going to have the same conversation over and over ( I should know by now!), but she always remember which should be my favorite from week to week.
The next week my sisters and my Mom and I went to LA for a girls trip. We drove over Thursday morning and went to see Wicked that night. 
We ate at Pink's hot dog stand (which is supposed to be one of the most famous hot dog stands!) We decided it wasn't really worth eating the food, but the adventure was fun!!! 
On Friday we shopped in the fashion district all day!!! And then we decided we all wanted to go back the next morning!! We had a blast. We sadly drove home Saturday evening with full shopping bags and heavy hearts. My sweet sister Natalie has been here all summer with her family and this was the last thing we got to do before she left. We all knew when it was over she had to leave........we sure miss them (especially Macey!)
The next week after that we went to Greer for a whole week!!! Just Tyson and I and our kids! It was a great relaxing week, it is so beautiful there and the weather was great! We even had enough people to play a small game of softball. WOW that is a lot of kids!
On Monday we had Mexican day, we wore Mexican hats, ate Mexican food and played Mexican games, even a pinata! 
On Wednesday we had hiking day and the kids got to swim in the river (this was Macey's favorite thing we did all week!) Then that night we had pizza night and they each got to make their own pizza's, yum!
Thursday was blue day, we all dressed in blue shirts, ate blue pancakes and blue-i-licious cupcakes and drank blue milkshakes that night. We visited the butterfuly museum that is in Greer and oddly enough it has nothing to do with butterflies. My kids were a little disappointed.
Friday was "hobo day" we went spelunking in a mud cave (or shall I say Tyson took the 4 older kids and Gage and I got to go on a short hike, with his cars!). We then made hobo dinners and took them to a camp site and cooked them over the fire and had s'mores for dessert! YUM!
We came home on Saturday to the heat and to reality of school starting too soon. What a great summer!
I got this from a friend's blog. I thought this would be fun. I hope you will play along.Here are the directions:
1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!
2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you.
We spent the Fourth of July in the beautiful mountains of Greer Arizona. Tyson's parents have a cabin and a few times a year we meet up there for a couple of days. It is always such a fun place to go and especially now that all of our kids are getting older and they play outside nonstop. We went up on Thursday night and came home Saturday night, it was a really quick trip for us, but it was well worth spending time with family. We went into town for the Fourth of July Parade in Springerville and Porter told me that was the first parade he has ever been to (so sad). My favorite part were the Apache helicopters that flew over head, and on one of the helicopters you could see one of the soldiers leaning out waving. It was such a sense of pride that ran through me for our country.
We also went on 
Memorial Day weekend and for those of you that remember it 
was a very c
old weekend. We drove almost the whole way up 
in a snow storm. The snow started just outside of Globe and it continued until we reached the cabin three hours later. It was falling so thickly that we couldn't see 100 yards in front of us. It was beautiful the flakes were huge and I could see the detail as they were falling on our windshield. We ended up having a foot and a half snow at the cabin. That is seriously crazy, that area doesn't get that much very often in the winter time, let alone the very end of May beginning of June. We had such a great time, the kids loved playing in the snow, they needed boots, hats, and gloves the whole shabang. We took the kids sledding, and had snow ball fights. It was so beautiful. The snow only lasted about three days but we were sure excited to experience the miracle of the weather.
