underwater camera

We didn't use all the pictures from our awesome
water camera
we got for the river. So we used the rest of the pictures at the pool with the kids.
Here are the ones that turned out.
enjoy!

Pretty AWESOME!

tubing salt river

The 4th of July Weekend Mimi, Papa and Rachel, Braden came to AZ to visit...So we had to find activities to do to stay cool.
Tubing the Salt River
happened to be one of them.
I have to say we were a little nervous at first. But it actually was really fun. It was a mixture of exciting, scary and relaxing.
Not everyone got to come— or wanted to come. the little kids being the ones who didn't get to come and Mimi being the one who didn't want to come.

Here are some of the Pictures we took with the cheap water camera we bought for this special occasion—hence how terrible they look.

Eric with his Awesome cut off Jeans!

Ryan with the tube holding the cooler.

Me with my awesome cold sore. Rachel and Braden in the background doing work.

Eric and Olivia

Next time we do it, we definitely need to tie our tubes together, we kept getting separated. Amy was by herself for the most part and rob kept joining other groups. I think cause they had better drinks then us!

Seth baseball tournament

A couple weeks after my family came to AZ to Visit. Seth came back to AZ for a
Baseball Tournament
It was so much fun being able to see Seth play...
The tournament was at Diablo Stadium (The stadium where the Angels play for Spring training)
Too bad it was 110 outside! It was so bad. As you can see in these pictures... we just look hot!

Love this picture!

One night he had a game at 7:30, and even with the sun down it was still SO hot! We were spraying the kids with water and had to take Gavin's shirt off. We didn't last long that game.

But even with all HEAT it was still so much fun having Seth so close to us. It was so much fun going to the games (they ended up taking 2nd in the tournament) going swimming and just being able to hang out with him.

mini golf

So a little bit ago we went with the Nielsen's
Miniature Golfing.
We went to Golf Land one night before it got really hot outside!
lets just say it was fun, a little crazy and not so much a serious round of golf.
OK it was serious for Gavin. He was the only one that really took it serious. Savvy probably knew that he was trying to be serious too, because she kept steeling his golf ball and running away with it. Made him so mad.

yeah, miniature golfing with with 5 kids and one of them being savvy was very interesting!

I don't know why i didn't take a lot of pictures... maybe cause it was hot outside and humid because of the water park right next to us, or maybe just trying to keep up with all the kids and trying to stay focused on my golf game—couldn't let Ryan beat me! (which he did-of course)
Very Fun... definitely have to go again—Because Gavin Loved it!

Real Cars

Cars, Cars and more Cars
is one of Gavin's obsessions right now.
He loves watching cars... ok he loves the beginning and the end of the movie. The middle of the movie is too boring for him. he only likes the "tar race" parts.
When the Real Cars came to AZ we had to go see them.

The Cars were at Tempe Market Place (an outdoor mall) so after we saw them we went and got something to eat and went into a few stores. when we walked into a store, i looked behind me and Ava and her friend Kate weren't behind us. i started to get a little worried, i walked outside the store yelling for them. Then i turned and what do i see in the store window...
Ava and Kate posing.
Of course that's where Ava would be!

I tried so hard to get Gavin to look at me to take a picture, but i got nothing. he only wanted to look at the cars! this was the best picture i got! So cute trying to look at me and the Cars!

PS. The car in his hand goes everywhere with him. It makes this loud noise when he rolls the car on the ground. It is so annoying! We've hidden it, purchased cars that don't make noise, and everything else you could think of to get rid of that loud, annoying car. It's still around.

dbacks with the fam

while my family was in AZ we had to go to a

dbacks game!

my family is a little obsessed with baseball. So they loved it!
now you know where Gavin gets it from!

The kids loved the all the All Star Game statues!

And my kids were very excited to see the Bobble Head guys—cause every game we've been to we always miss them.
I guess it's easy to see them when you're an hour early to the game!

"THE UNIT"

So during one of the innings we were walking around and right behind the jumbo tron/score board in the the outfield there is a little baseball field for kids to play on. Gavin loves it. So as he was playing one of the camera guys started filming him—Gavin made the jumbo screen the whole time in between the inning.
We didn't see it on the jumbo tron, cause we were behind it (but we saw it on a little tv). My grandparents stayed in their seats and they saw it.
I also got a picture of the TV screen that was by us.
and they kept replaying little clips of him the rest of the night.

While the camera guy was following him he was laughing the whole time. Gavin can run drills all day. They filmed him running the bases and sliding at home. Throwing the ball to Ryan and hitting it.

my family LOVED it.
They were in heaven. We even had to stay for the whole game (we never can) at least it was a close game and the dbacks ended of winning in the last inning!
Good times!
We had a lot of fun! We're so excited my family got to come visit us!

my family came to AZ

So right after school got out,
my family came to AZ to visit!
We were so excited to see them and to show them our AZ stomping grounds!
When they came the weather was great. Hot enough to go swimming during the day, but cool enough to go on bike rides to the park in the evening.

Cheetos BOY!
He loves Cheetos but hates the mess afterwards!

of course we had to go to Sonic (everyday) while my mom was in town!
D-Back games Photos to come