Railroad Park

Last night, we went with my mom and dad and brother and his family to the Railroad park in Scottsdale.! The boys had so much fun!

They have a really cute little train that goes around the park and Spencer and Cooper really loved riding this -- they were so excited!!

They also have a fun little carousel that the boys really enjoyed -- I don't think Cooper had ever ridden a carousel as he kept looking at the horse, and me with wide eyes just trying to figure out how it all worked.

We went to play at the fun playground, and Lauren used my camera to experiment, I told her and my mom some tips I learned in a photography class I had taken so it was fun to watch them going around trying to use the tips -- the only problem I think was the lighting wasn't the best and the shutter speeds were slow so they were a little blurry.

While Jake took Ryan and Jacob to a different play area Spencer and Grandma went exploring and found a really fun train table in a store, I had to beg him to leave when we finally were ready to go -- he had a blast! It was a super fun park, it is a real bummer that it isn't closer, because we LOVED it!

Family Reunion 2008

We are HOME! We just (well last night) got home from Jake's annual family reunion! We went to Palisade Lake just outside of Manti for the reunion this year. We had a lot of fun at the Lake and the boys enjoyed playing with all of their cousins.


Jake swam a little, but I although I thought I might was too much of an Arizona girl and chose to stay warm rather than get to wet in the frigid Utah water (I am too used to the bathtub temperatures of the water down here). We had a great time visiting with all of the other (chickens) -- We did enjoy going out on paddle boats and Jake enjoyed throwing Jacob and Ryan in the water!

The kids enjoyed jumping off a floating island with all of their cousins, and a couple of uncles and an aunt.



That night we had a talent show and almost all of the grandkids sang a rousing rendition of Popcorn Popping!


This is the scene that greeted some Jake's mom and dad and a few of his siblings that went straight back to Kanosh. There was a brush fire on the mountain just East of them and the wind was really whipping around -- I guess it was fairly serious as there was a tanker truck parked outside there house and they were told to be ready to evacuate. They lost power for several hours -- we missed it all as we were visiting Dan and Lisa in Aurora.

On Monday, Jake helped build Emmy's house with his Dad and two brother in law's and nephew.


Ryan and his cousin Jed got FILTHY dirty and he enjoyed playing with him. Ryan and Jacob are actually still up in Utah for a few more days and they will fly home on Saturday by THEMSELVES!! The little girls and Luke were all playing with Owen and Janell's puppies as they tried to get some cute poses for there website and then we got a picture of them before they went in twenty different directions.



This picture of Spencer is just a cute snapshot that I got while we are at the lake -- he wasn't so into his cousins for the most part, preferring to hang out with mom and dad -- but all in all I think he had a blast too.
It is good to be home, though.