Cindy's Wedding

Cindy is Dan's youngest sibling. She had the faiytale wedding she always dreamed of, and now they are off in Paris, France enjoying Disneyland and the Eiffel tower. They are such a cute couple.


Can you believe that I only snapped one picture of the bride and groom and they weren't even POSING! I'm going to have to steal a better picture from someone.

Dan and Maysa just danced it up at the reception that night, it was very cute.

The purple girls were all the older girl cousins, aren't they so sweet. They really loved being together and hanging out.


These were the flower girls with the white and yellow dresses. They LOVED being flower girls and throwing flowers out of their baskets, even when they weren't supposed to.








Dan, his brothers, Dad and Grandpa. Aren't they a great lookin group.
SO there you have it. I wish that I took way more pictures, but we were having too much fun visiting and playing with cousins and family we barely ever get to see. Dan has 7 brothers and sisters, they were all there. I will post a better picture soon.

Trip to Canada

We had a really great time in Vancouver B.C during spring break. Mostly we visited family. We also visited Glen Canyon park, Crescent Beach and White Rock Beach. We had 2 Canadian thanksgiving dinners while we were there, it was fun.





These 3 pictures were taken at white rock beach. It was sort of a chilly day, the sea wind gave me a bit of a headache. But it was beautiful, the beach is such a novelty to those that abide in Arizona.

Fun hottubbing at Dan's sister Lillian's house. Dan's little brother and wife Viviana were there as well.

Maysa playing with cousin Fynlee.


Glen Canyon park....

... and Suspension bridge...

lots of fun with cousin Leah.

Its scorpion season!

Oh yes this is for real, our neighbors found this nasty monster scorpion in their yard and put it in jar. It was dead when they found it, I had to take it out of the bottle to get a picture, and yes I wore gloves.
Welcome to Arizona!
We have been extremely blessed to not have any scorpions at all in our house in the past 377 days. Yes, we do see them in the yard still especially in September and October. NASTY WASTY, I hate them. But I know for sure the Lord has blessed us in keeping them out of the house. We took exceedingly great pains to seal the house last year and haven't had a problem since. However, if you would like to come to our yard after dark with an ultra violet flashlight, we'll show you a few and how they light up neon yellow. ITS LIKE FREAKY FRIDAY, it really does give me nightmares. Be grateful if you've never seen one! Nasty, nasty, nasty

Uncle Drewy....

Dan's little bro came to visit us for a week in September. We just LOVED having him here and visiting with him. He played with the kids all the time, so that was really great for me. I started to call him the Manny which I'm not sure he was keen about. But he is so good natured, he's just a big teddy bear. I'm not sure he'd like that either. Drew and Dan and Elena hiked picacho peak one day, then they went golfing the next day. Then he celebrated his 27th birthday on Friday. He bought a killer leather jacket at the flea markets. We baked pineapple upside down cake for breakfast then he and Dan had all you can eat steak and cheesecake at the golden corral that evening. What a day. For his last day here we took him out on the boat on canyon lake. It was a fun day and the water was wonderful as usual. Here are some pictures with Uncle Drewdy Drew (as Sierra calls him.)














We miss you Uncle Drew, please come again real soon!!

Children's Museum

Its a good day to blog. I love general conference, but we don't do much else on this day so I needed to catch up. Thats just a picture of the girls working on their conference packets that you can print off the LDS website. I LOVE THOSE! Not a whole lot has happenend since school started, we ended up going to the children's museum on Labor Day. It was crowded, nothing AT ALL like I expected. The kids loved it, Elena was a little bored. But seriously, I was thinking we were going to see like sculptures of the easter bunny, tooth fairy, santa claus, that sort of thing. Maybe some antique toys. NO clue. So I was suprised when they told us the kids were allowed to touch and play with everything in the entire museum. Its kind of just a big fun house. A room where the kids can play store, a room where they can build forts, ride tricyles, an arts and craft room and a monster tree house they could climb around in. I was impressed that most of the projects and contraptions were built from recycled materials you would find around your home. Anyway, I would totally recommend it, I think Dan had just as much fun as the kids, but it was a one time thing. I don't think we'll be going back any time soon. SO here are some pictures of our fun day.






I wanted to add in this last picture of our one rainy day, cause it was such a glorious experience. Everyone from arizona knows what I'm talking about. The whole neighborhood gets together and does the rain dance. Its awesome>!