Scorpion sighting

So Mason was in front of the house last weekend and was clearing out the car at night when we heard a scream....or gasp..and he saw this scorpion right under my car!!!We always run around here without our shoes on...what now?..we are gonna have to wear shoes I guess...so Stevan went out and chopped off his stinger and the boys played with it a while...then decided they were done and chopped off his head and put him on an ant hill at the bottom of our driveway. I checked in the morning and the skeleton was picked clean! So I guess we need to be more careful..I had a false sense of security thinking we didn't have a problem here.

Our Soccer Studs

Soccer season has finally arrived. If you ask Tristen it should never have been gone. I actually took her to Ashlen's dance class to see if she would rather sign up for dance, but no, our little T is all about Soccer!! Well we had sign-ups this week and today we had a soccer clinic at the park. We told Clayton he could play and he was super excited...he was trying on Tristen's cleats Friday and running around pretty proud of himself. Unfortunately the cleats still fit Tristen..we were going to get bigger cleats for her and let him wear her "old" ones, but we didn't find any last night on our trip to town. So....there was a sleepover last night at my house..Tristen and her friend Chase stayed up until after 10:30p.m. (thats when I went to bed) after watching Mama Mia and eating candy and junk food. They were up at the crack of dawn pounding on my door to find out where the soccer gear was..then Clayton came knocking down my door wanting to know if we could tie his shoes...We got balls pumped up and ended up at the field in time - whew..that 6am wake up for the 8am clinic was the trick!!! I guess we'll have to make sure we get a whole 2 hours to get ready next week...NOT. So here are the pics...they had fun and will be at another clinic next Saturday before the season starts in a couple weeks. Stevan is coaching again and we expect a big team..there are tons of parents requesting him as a coach :)



Tristen, Chase & Zachary


Clayton doing his thing


Tristen and Clayton working on a drill


Tristen and Chase were on the same team for a scrimmage


More ball handling skills

Happy 9th Birthday Ashlen

Our sweet challenging Ashlen is 9 years old!!! Man how time flies....she came down the stairs the other day in a waaaay tooo short skirt with a tank top. She thought it looked cute...it did, but not for her!!! So she went back upstairs and came down in another skirt which is normally to just below her knees, but it looked a little higher. She laughed as she came down exclaiming that she only needs to roll the waisteband a little and the skirt looks a lot better on her this way!! We are so not ready for this...I told her to fix it before I threw that skirt out too.

SoCal Visitors

So I totally forgot to mention that we had special visitors a couple weekends ago...how could I..Actually I wouldn't have forgotten if someone had emailed me all those photos he took!!! Robbie and Debby came up for a business trip and stopped off on their way home to help us celerate Ashlen's 9th birthday. What a treat it was for her - she was soooo excited and even more so when Robbie and Debby took us to Birthday breakfast since our tradition of spending birthday dinners with them dies when we moved out here. We went to Recipies in Queen Creek and the food was great. We showed them the kids schools and where we like to ride then we sat and chatted until they had to get home. Apparently Bishop Farrer had to speak the next day....whatever. Well Mason is busy trying to schedule his hunter safety class before Robbie leavees for Elk Hunting in Utah...he really wants to go with Rob!!! So after they left we rested for a bit and waited for Stevan to get home..then we got ready to drive to Grand Canyon University to meet Big T and Scottie and his family. Scottie plays soccer for CSUDH and they were here for a game. We lost and we were sad but we were excited to see big T and watch a great game.

Labor Day Fun

Being that this was the first day in like a month that Stevan has had completely "OFF" we decided to start out our Labor Day with a swim....it was a little chilly, but the kids were able to show Stevan their new skills..Clayton now swims underwater and likes to float on his back, Ashlen and Tristen have been working on their diving and Tristen has been working on swimming under through peoples legs. Mason and Stevan just tossed the football back and forth while I relaxed :) Then we came home and worked on the bikes for a bit to make sure they were ready and we took them out for a ride:) The weather actually wasn't too hot...we took the canapy and I followed the boys back to our spot in the Expedition where we set up camp. We all got to ride and we had a great time. We came home hot and exhausted so we ran over to the pool again so we could cool off before we ate hamburgers and watched football and jumped on the trampoline. We had a great day together and I know Stevan really enjoyed being at home with us.....finally.....


Stevan taking the bike from Mason...Mason didn't want to get on his own bike!!!!


Mason again..


Me, Ash & clayton


Stevan & Clayton


I can't get my foot on the pegs with Clayton's leg there...I had to keep telling him to keep his feet up so I could shift :)


Tristen went with Stevan


I think Ash was being photographer - a blurry Mason


Tris and Clayton


the girls :)

Let it RAIN!!

So Monsoon season is fun - but this year has been disappointing...not a lot of rain. We have had our share of great thunderstorms and lightning shows, but it isn't the same without the rain. We woke up Saturday morning and the skies were black..we got a TON of rain and the kids all went out to enjoy and try find frogs.

Bulldogs

Mason is on a Jnr High team this year with the STFYL and he is a BULLDOG. He has been very dedicated...he missed our annual week long river trip to stay through Hell Week!! He is enjoying himself, but would enjoy it way more if he got more playtime....I guess he shouldn't have mentioned to the defensive coordinator who wanted the high school defensive coordinator to see his moves that he wasn't going to THEIR high school...Sorry Queen Creek High - he is a Poston Butte BRONCO...oh well...can't win them all...the Jnr High team is a feeder team and they teach the kids the High School plays they will need as a freshman the following moves...Hey - we'll know our opponents moves...I guess we can look at it that way.......

My Fav River Pics

Well - because we always take a ba gillian pics at the river - I decided to just put a couple of my favorite ones on here...the rest are on facebook if you want to see all 200 of them :) We LOVE the river and we LOVE going there with the Farrers :)

Catch up

Lately life has been going on and I am simply hanging on for dear life. It is a good thing that I had a week to relax at the river cause since I've been home we've been on the go. Stevan has a painting job in Tucson right now and the painting crew he had hired to complete the job were apparently a bunch of slow-poke idiots. The job should have been completed over 3 weeks ago. Stevan was actually planning on leaving our vacation to finalize things for a day when the job was done..but alas it didn't get done. Yay for us he stayed the whole time but boooooo the job wasn't completed. So last week he spent the entire week in Tucson with one of his guys so they could try complete the job....due to the fact that the slow pokes did not complete what they said they completed he found a ton of work still to be done....so he returned home Saturday due to rain...and he has been there all this week too :( Meanwhile I have been driving to practices every other night and then homework, 2 reports were completed and I have been working my little job in the mornings..... whew!!!! I know I am complaining but I am mindful of the fact that at least we have jobs to complain about....and I think I have been more appreciative of Stevan since he has been MIA and I have been left to carry the load on my own. I will be posting river pics and then will be posting about our upcoming sports...football, cheer and soccer :) It is only gonna get better from here!!!!