Family night at the lake

Last night we headed down to the lake to have a picnic dinner with the girls. The girls had fun running around and throwing little pebbles in the lake. We had fun trying to keep the girls from falling in the lake. It was a lot of fun though and we even got some exercise walking around the lake!

Goodbye Mesa, Welcome Back Sahuarita

Mesa

So poop happens....every 3 months apparently for us....but we're happy to be back in Sahuarita again! Although I really liked the house we were living in up in Mesa it feels good to be home. I just can't say how stupid I felt asking people to help us move when they are the ones who helped us move just 2 months ago! Oh well, I'm over it. Now all we need is a job...

Sahuarita

T-Town for the weekend

We spent the past weekend in Tucson. Stephen was actually laid off again last week so we thought, hey, we might be able to save our house from selling on a short sale if Stephen can find a job back in T-town! He has sent his resume to lots of places so cross your fingers that we find something....FAST!

Aside from job hunting we got to go visit our old house. And by "visit" I mean Stephen dropped me off to go pull weeds for 2 hours in the heat with the girls while he went to see a few potential employers. No hard feelings, I got a tan. We remembered how much we love our house down there - minus the 1 scorpion we found by the front door. We stayed the whole weekend with my wonderful mom. She didn't mind that we invited ourselves over for 3 days and didn't hesitate to feed us pratically every meal. I know everyone thinks their mom is the best, but you're all wrong, my mom is the best.

Then I got to see my niece, Jordynn, play in her first soccer game, which was awesome, and she even scored a goal! Go Jordy! The girls got to play with Ethan and their cousin, Makayla. My mom took us out to eat at Red Lobster (or Red Monster, as Bailey calls it) YUM! Stephen had a productive meeting with a friend about a possible business they might be starting. We got to see some friends from our old wards in Sahuarita and Tucson cause we went to church twice! The kids, especially Ethan, were really happy to see their old friends and teachers.

It was a good time and here's some pics!

She was singing to the music on the dvd

Anytime there's a little dip in the road their arms go up like we're on a roller coaster
Bailey is ready for Halloween
Looking pretty sexy in Daddy's shirt
Jordynn the soccer star!!

Bailey is so obesessed with this leapster thing it's nuts!

Dang she is cute!

Fireworks

Stephen had to go to New Mexico yesterday for work so of course he comes home with tons of firecrackers, sparklers, snakes, smoke bombs, and lots of other junk. The girls loved the sparklers and snakes.

They love to wear Daddy's shoes

the socks just make it look so funny

Ethan is 10!

So I'm a really bad mom not blogging about this til almost a week later but here's pics from Ethan's big 10th b-day. When I picked him up from his mom he kept telling me how good it feels to be 10. Ethan picked Red Lobster for dinner and he ate ALL of his salmon and shrimp meal. Then we came home and had a poor excuse for a sword-cake (made by me). And it's supposed to be slightly odd-shaped because it's a sword from his WOW game. At least he loved it and it tasted good. Then he and Stephen set up their computers downstairs and played WOW all night. And by all night I mean til 4 am. Don't tell his mom!!! :) He kept saying all evening, "This is the best birthday ever!!" Ethan got money from Grandma Ricka, the WOW Trading card game with a bunch of cards and a new skateboard from us, a new shirt from his sisters and like a million WOW trading cards from Aunt Jana and her fam. He made out pretty well. And on Sunday his mom surprised him with going to his first ever D-Backs game against the Dodgers. (Yes, we were really sad we couldn't go) So the man is 10 now, show him some dang respect!

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