Phoenix Children's Museum

We joined Tony, Holly, and their boys and went to the Phoenix Children's Museum. But first we finally tried Pizzeria Bianco. The pizza lived up to the claims, it was very good!

At the museum...

Rylee and Zach serving ice cream

 

Zach loved filling his shopping cart

 

The girls painting the rocket ship

The pirate hats they made...

Afterwards, I took the kids to the park to fly their kite.

Also, this happened...

 

He face planted in the mud! Haylee started screaming, which I thought she yelled that Zach was bleeding, so I ran to him in a panic. But when I got there, I couldn't help but laugh! He tried to laugh too but mostly cried.

Our Anniversary

Scott and I celebrated 8 years! We went to the Melting Pot and had a wonderful evening out!

Haylee's 1st Field Trip

Haylee went on her very first field trip to Peter Piper Pizza. Her class got to tour the kitchen, make their own pizza, then play all the games. She had a great time!

Zach got to tag along too and loved driving the truck.

Eating their pizza. Even Zach got to make his own!

A family reunion of sorts

Over labor day weekend, just about all of my family went up to the cabin. We had at least 15-20 people there at any given moment. With the addition to neighborhood kids that hung out with us too, it was a full house. It was so much fun too, always something going on! I think the kids had the most fun having cousins to play with all day long. My family is majority girls, so Zach was a lone ranger in that age group!

 

The first day we were there, my cousin Ashley, Victor, Scott and I took all of our kids (8) to the lake to catch crawdads. We actually hiked down pretty far to where the dam is and caught 2 itty bitty crawdads. All of the kids did really well, it was a fun afternoon!

 

When we got back, the kids played out front and the guys played football.

That night was very interesting. Let's just say a few guys started talking politics and religion. It was not pretty. But we all made up and had a family moment all around the bonfire. ;)

The next day, my cousin Debbie, Ben, Terry, Scott and I took our kids to another lake. This one was not in good condition. The water line was super low and the banks were pure deep mud. All we could think of to do was skip rocks and then throw the largest objects we could find into the mud to make the biggest muddy splash. I think Scott won that competition.

Zach tried.

Our picnic lunch at the lake.

When we got back, the kids stayed busy with all of the neighborhood kids.

 

Zach trying to get into the hammock. Good job buddy...

It rained off and on that day and which meant a lot of mud pies and mud holes and mud castles....

Zach and Scott were playing football together. He was so happy.

One of the neighbor kids was throwing the ball back and forth to Scott and Zach in the hammock. Zach thought it was hilarious and was laughing so hard. I love the pure joy and love from both of them in this picture!

My pretty girl

I tried to take a picture of the 3 of them, they are such cheese balls.

We ended the night with another bon fire and smores. It was so much fun, I love my family. Crazy and all. :)