School did actually start....

School started the end of August...yep it did, promise! This year all four kids are in school since the youngest started a preschool twice a week.

Lindsey says. . . .

On the way home from the gym the other day Lindsey and I were talking about what we would do the rest of the day. I told her I needed to clean up first then we could do other things. She said "Ya, cause your sweat stinks but mine doesn't." Two days before that we were walking out of the gym and the wind was blowing. Lindsey says "what is that smell?....Oh, it's you....you don't smell good mom." So there you have it I don't smell good after a session at the gym. I'm sure you are shocked by this revelation.

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August Trip to Arizona, how much fun can we cram into 5 days?

A stranger's dog but he was a great dog.


Camp Verde----FUN---with Friends!!!
This kind of fun lasts and lasts, sunburn for most and ear pain for me.

August --More and more fun

Cousins Above, Temple below


We took a last minute trip to Arizona. The pictures really tell the story best...

July 09

This was a crazy month of FUN!!
We packed up and headed to UTAH. (D Ray had to stay home so I was the lone driver.) We visited the Giffords in Provo, Jami took Daniel- Rebecca and Alyssa to Stadium of Fire with the Jonas Brothers, Daniel attended a BYU sports camp, and we went to the Cottle Family reunion. Daniel discovered at the reunion that ATV's are really fun-- he and his second cousins rode and rode. Then they would show up to eat with super dusty faces. We also got to visit Grandma Jensen(my grandma-mother's side).

Then we left Rebecca in UTAH and the rest of us came home. D Ray was happy to see us after 12 day of being alone!

Rebecca spent two more weeks in UTAH babysitting, playing and then meeting up with a friend for EFY. She flew by herself for the first time to come home without the 15 hour drive.

More Summer

Let's see in June Rebecca and I went to girl's camp. We had tons of fun.


4 days of no sleep, good food, sunshine, hiking, spiritual food, silly singing, connecting with all the YW in the Stake. Oh and lots of driving:)

Daniel also went to scout camp this month--do I have a picture of that??? He took pictures but something happened electronically and the images and like little puzzels---plus they won't upload. So we will just use our imagination and visualize dirty boys getting rained on and doing lots of scouting stuff:)