Heritage days

Payson had Heritage days a couple of weekends ago and so we spent the day at the park. The boys learned how to make ice cream in a bag, we watched a melodrama, and ate some yummy snow cones.

Have you ever been to Fossil Springs?

If not you need to go!
A couple of weekends ago we spent the day here,

it was like we were on a tropical Island. Fossil Springs has pool after pool of swimming areas, along with places to cliff jump (this is way to scary for me). The water was so clean and clear and just the right temperature for us. There were so many different areas to check out, but we stayed in our little spot that was already equipped with a rope swing. I am so glad that I brought life jackets for the boys, the water was moving a little fast and it was better to be safe just in case. Trey had fun catching minnows in the small pools of water and he was the first to try out the rope swing. It took him at least 10 minutes before he finally made his first attempt on the swing.

It took Jordan alot longer to warm up to the idea of the rope swing, he had to make small attempts taking off from a large rock in the water and then gradually working his way up to the tree, but he did it and I am so proud of him!!!

We brought with us lots of sunblock, lunch, and a couple of tubes. The boys had a good time trying to push me off the tube, and they loved it when their dad held the tube for them so they could ride down the little waterfalls.

It really is hard to believe that this is in Arizona !!!

Nick enjoying lunch

Doesn't this boy look tired!!!

During the ride home Nick kept saying "the best day ever, the best day ever", this truly turned out to be a great day!!

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL!!!!

Last weekend we went with our good friends Monica and Levi to go to the University of Phoenix Stadium to watch the Cardinals play the Dever Broncos. Monica and Levi drove to Payson from Grants, NM, met us at our house and we to the game together. We had so much fun at the game, Monica and Levi are die hard Bronco fans so it was fun watching them support their team. I met Monica at Western New Mexico University, I convinced her to join the Movement Science program and somehow we survived the program together. Monica has been such a good friend to me, she has always there for us even helping us load our U-haul when we moved to the crappiest town in the world Elko, NV. Monica just found out that she is expecting a baby girl in October I am so happy and excited for her and Levi.

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Pine Hike

Last weekend we had to get the kids out of the house so we decided to go for a hike. We took the kids to the Pine hiking trail in Pine, AZ. Willie and I had been on this trail before and we knew it would be an easy hike for the older boys, but we were not sure how Nick would do. So we packed up and headed out for a mid-morning hike. Nick did so well on the hike he loved every minute of it, of course he had to stop every 2 sec. on the trail and pick up sticks or rocks. He said he needed the sticks to fight a bear with, for some reason Nick thought we would find a bear on our hike, lol! During our hike it was cloudy and we thought it was going to rain but it made the hike so nice and cool. I think next time we go hiking I will get some of these for Trey and Jordan. After the hike we headed into pine and got some ice cream, YUMMY.