Standing room only

Colby now refuses to sit in his booster seat, but he can't reach the table when he sits in the chair, so he just stands up to eat. It's not too much of a problem for him because he will only focus on his food for about 2 minutes anyway, and then he is off to more exciting things!

Ethan Rocks!

Ethan loves to listen to Zak's mp3 player. We finally made him his own playlist and he just sits and rocks out! His favorite song--The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song, of course!

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!

What happened?

So Ethan is usually the one begging to play in the water, while Colby, although he loves to play outside, usually doesn't really want to get wet. Yesterday I told the boys we were going to play in the water, and Colby jumped right up and was so excited. Ethan said he didn't want to...he wanted to keep coloring. So that is just what he did. Colby had a good time in the wading pool though. He was very entertained by dumping water out of his cup.

The latest...

Well, we started out this blog with the best of intentions...and once again we are slackers! I keep telling myself that I will wait until I have more cute pictures to post, but then I never pull out my camara to take them, so...no photos this time.
Things have been going well around here. It is getting hotter and hotter so we can no longer just send the boys into the backyard to play. We better get them involved in some kind of summer program or we are all going to go crazy!
Ethan has been looking forward to his birthday party for months--and he still has to wait another 6 weeks or so. He wants a ninja turtle party. I'm kind of stumped as to what to do at a ninja turtle party, but hopefully we can come up with something fun!
I just got released from my calling as a Sunday School teacher, which I kind of had mixed feelings about, and was called as the Visiting Teaching Coordinator, which I am not sure how I feel about yet! It sounds like a lot of work, but it will be good to get to know more of the sisters in the ward. Zak is still stuck as the Sunday School President, and he is glad that he will be able to hand off Colby to me during that hour now so that he will get to focus more on his calling. The countdown is on--only 10 more weeks until Colby goes into nursery!