AZ Summer Vacation...

What a crazy couple of weeks we have had! On the 4th, Zak's Aunt Jan (his Mom's sister) came to visit us for a few weeks. She lives is Florida, so it is not often we get to see her, and we were really excited to have her here again. We tried to plan some exciting things to entertain her while she was here, but that turned out to be a difficult task. It is just too hot to do much besides sit and stare at each other! We did go to the Desert Museum after dark, the Children's Museum, and we drove up to Mt. Lemmon to get out of the heat one afternoon.

Of course we also spent time at Dairy Queen, Eegee's, and Wendy's for frosties! Ethan and Colby loved having her here, and Ethan especially thought she was here just to entertain him for 2 weeks! He wanted her to read to him constantly, especially when she spoiled him with lots of new books!

To celebrate the 4th, we went to a fireworks show in Saddlebrooke, which is a retirement community a few miles north of us. We had an inside scoop (thanks Mike!) and went in the back way to watch the show. We sat on the golf cart path right off and just above the golf course. We ended up being so close to the fireworks that they were too bright to even look at at first, and it was so loud! It scared the kids! After our eyes and ears adjusted, it turned out to be so cool. We will be there again next year for sure! We just hope the word doesn't spread about it, because we liked having the whole place to ourselves. So Shhh!
While Aunt Jan was here, we had other visitors coming in and out. We had some of Zak's family and some of my family as well. It was good to catch up with everyone.
We got to really enjoy the AZ summer when our AC went out! We first noticed it was not working right on Saturday, and trying to get anyone out here to fix it turned out to be a challenge. We ended up being without air conditioning until Monday night. As our house quickly got up above 90 degrees, we moved out! Thanks to Nate and Melinda for letting us all crash there for a couple days! We now know that AC is nothing to take for granted!