Abbie's favorite Client!

So....I have several favorite clients...but as you can see Denise is Abbie's favorite. Denise works with David at Lifeskills School and is one of the counselors. She comes out from Surprise, AZ to get her hair done. SO LOYAL! Denise is SO funny and fun. She's got an accent from Oklahoma and is just a kick! She lets Abbie have a ride in her cool convertible car before she leaves. Lately, she has even bribed Abbie with a slushy to rub her feet while I do her hair!

Fun Day in the Sun part 1

David is such a fun dad! He would rather be with his family than anyone else! It was his idea to take the kids to Big Surf today! I love the umbrellas here! Looks like we are on a tropical island or something! (I WISH!)

Mason enjoying his raft....you need one of these to catch the waves!

I always say that Eli is our fish! He would live in the water if he could! He looks very content here, huh?

A look at the front of Sunsplash. It's in Scottsdale. Our passes actually get us into any of the 3 places. Mesa, Scottsdale or Phoenix. The kids prefer this one, but we usually go to Sun Splash since it's the closest!

Grandma and Grandpa Crawford get us Season Passes every year at Christmas to go to Sunsplash and Big Surf! Now that school is in, it is only open on weekends....so we thought we'd go as a family and enjoy some fun in the sun!

Abbie still doesn't quite reach the height requirement....so before going into the wave pool, she had to put on a life jacket. Poor girl. She has her moms genes in the tall department! Wish I had her genes in the skinny department!

Abbie was so excited that this year she is getting daring enough to go on some of the waterslides. According to her, this was the scary one! The other picture is after she landed. Note: the water is like 2 feet deep! :) Cute huh?

Abbie Claire age 4

So it's funny....I have found a whole new world out there since I've been taught a few things, actually ALOT thanks to Tawni! My friend Amy Griner took this picture of Abbie a couple of years ago and I didn't know how to retrieve it. I LOVE it and think she is so talented with her camera! I know this is 2 years ago....but I totally want to post this because I want to have a blog book made one day and would love this to be in it!

Cousins

I am so excited! I am set I think.....at least for now! I can't believe I actually made a collage by myself. Really, it means that Tawni is a GREAT teacher! Thanks Tawni! :)
So, I'm trying to go back through LOTS of things that have happened. I thought I'd start with the most recent. We were able to go up to Utah at the end of July, first part of August to visit my family and to go for my.........ready?.........20th school reunion! Impossible to believe, I know. HAHA. Anyway, we had so much fun with all of our cousins. I thought I'd make a collage of the Bustos clan first. Lucas is 5, Samuel is 3 and Aaron is 5 months. I'll include more about that Aaron baby once I get some pictures uploaded. He is something else. I love them all, but I couldn't resist Aaron's cheeks and rolls!

Wish I could Actually USE my resources!!!!!

So I'm a little frustrated tonight. My friend Tawni had me come over to her house for like 4 hours today. She walked me through all kinds of stuff and the thing I was the most excited about was the collages! I thought they looked SOOO simple and for sure I would be able to go home tonight and get caught up......okay so maybe not caught up (because there are like 12 years to catch up on) but still, I thought I could make a good dent. Well, I've been on this computer for like 2 hours and as you can see, I have no collages to report. I want to be a blogger! I really do! Why does everyone make it look so easy? UGH. OH well, I should get to bed because we have set a new family goal to get up every morning at 6am for scripture study. So, I better do that. Better luck tomorrow, huh? I will get this, even if it KILLS me!!!

1st day of school

I can't believe summer is actually over! I have to say I have mixed feelings about the whole thing. I love having my kids around, but living in Mesa where it gets to be up to 118 degrees or so...there is just so much we can do to stay busy. So, here they are at the bus stop waiting and waiting and sweating. We realized that Abbie forgot her water bottle...so I told Andrew's parents (little boy in blue in the picture) that I would go to the school to take Abbie her water and would check on Andrew since it was his first day of Kindergarten. LONGGGG story short, I peeked in to check on Andrew and his teacher saw me and asked me to come in and help for the morning. I tried to tell her I didn't have a child in the class, but she quickly let me know that she really needed the help and so, I helped on the first day of school and my child WAS NOT in the class. Kinda funny...

Bowling at Fat Cats

 

 

The kids, cousins, Nana Grandma Jefferies and I met Sara Langlois, her boyfriend Steve Fisher and his brother Jake at Fat Cats bowling alley in Provo, Ut. Eli invited his friend Shaylie. We love bowling there because there is fun music, black lights and nice light weight balls for the kids to use. We all just enjoyed dancing while we waited for our turns and even tried a little breakdancing on the cool wood floors. Notice my technique. :) Pretty good, huh