Minky Monkeys

Sierra learned how to do monkey bars and she was so proud of herself, we were too! Maysa also thought she could do it too. I named this post "minky monkey" because that is what Maysa calls her little stuffed monkey that we got from build a bear.

One year ago....

I'm not sure why I am posting this, but it is fun to reminisce how much our lives can change. Well, this is not a trick or exxageration. This was my van stuck in the snow April 15, 2008 in Edmonton Alberta, Canada almost exactly one year ago. I cannot even believe how much my life has changed in one year. (I had to shovel all that out, then my neighbor came along later in the day and parked his big fat truck right in the nice little spot I had carved.) I am so glad to be out of that place. I love Arizona and everything it has to offer. I feel like it is a little slice of heaven on earth. I will never be cold again! Wahoo!

Shamrock Farms

Today Sierra and I went on a kindergarden field trip to Shamrock farms. It was so interesting and fun. The children were very well behaved. I had 4 cute little kids in my group and they were so sweet and good. We got to have some chocolate milk and ice cream. I didn't have any ice cream because the milk filled me up to the brim. It was so amazingly good. We got to take a tour of the whole farm on a train. We saw the cows being milked and the baby cows in their "cribs". It was so neat. Those cows were treated like queens, my dad would have been so impressed. I grew up on a cattle ranch so I happen to know a thing or two about cows.

More visitors makes more fun.....!

My sister Charlotte and husband Mardy and 1 year old Raven came to visit us for a week. We started off at the zoo and then went over to canyon lake. If you look real close you will see our crazy Canadian bro in law going for a dip in 47 degree weather. What a nut.

Also visited the temple again this week. The kids had fun playing on the lawn and climbing trees. Charlotte and Mardy agreed that these temple grounds are the most beautiful.

We had such a fun time at this little ghost town in Apache Junction. This nice fiddler man played us all a song with our name and a rhyme about beans. He sang about Charlotte the Starlett and I can't remember the other ones. He asked me if I wanted to play his fiddle. So I played "the Butterfly."
We went hiking at Casa Grande mountain. Maysa refused to go in the pack or let me hold her or anything so it was a fight to get her down the path. Char and Mardy got a nice picture under the CG mountain symbols.