A few catch up pictures

We have been playing trying to get in all the fishing and camping we can before we go back to Las Cruces. Brandon has it all planned to use up every weekend with either camping or fishing. Good thing we all like it.

Father's Day breakfast. Anyone care for o.j. from a sauce pan. I left most of my kitchen stuff in Las Cruces for the summer. That was the only other container I could come up with.

You can barely see the little dots if you look really close. We did not have our camera with us when it happened so we took this when we got home. Allie was stuck by a cactus while we were hiking down to Grape Creek. We are still not really sure how it happened. We did not even know it had happened until about 10 min after the fact. I noticed that she kept bending down to rub her leg so I went over to look at what she was doing. That is when I noticed all the cactus needles. There were a good 30. She was fine until we had to start pulling all of them out. We did find the culprit on our hike back up, it was pretty hidden in betweeen rocks.

Allie and Tyler and I and my sister Becca drove to Utah to attend the sealing of my foster brothers to my aunt and uncle that adopted them. That was such a great experience. Families should and can be together forever. I am SOOOO grateful for the Temple and the blessings it brings to our families. I know that if I do my best I will be with my family forever. How neat it was to see those boys that came from such a hard life become an eternal family with my aunt and uncle. The older one Devin was just baptized and is so excited to be a member of the church. You can see his little testimony growing so quickly.

All of my family minus my parents and one brother and his wife. We are at the Strawberry Days Rodeo in Pleasant Grove Utah. I forget how much I LOVE a GOOD rodeo. We had SOOOOO much fun!!! Allie and Tyler were every bit as excited as I was. Allie's favorite was the bull riding, surprisingly. She was also VERY cute cheering the cowgirls in as they rounded their last barrel. Tyler just couldn't get enough of it. He just sat there and took it all in.

I drove home from Utah on my own and what is supposed to be a 9hr trip took 12hrs and 11 stops. Some of the stops were just to pick up a pacifier that could not be reached while driving. Overall I think we did good. And we would do it again. Of course we would rather have Brandon if we can.

This is a picture from our hike to Helen Falls in Colorado Springs. It was very pretty and a very kid friendly hike. Which was good for me too, we had not planned on hiking and I was in a skirt and flip-flops. The falls were MUCH bigger but this was the only picture we got.

I did already talk about Tyler starting to talk but this is a picture of him saying ball. Probably is first real word. He holds his lips in a complete circle. He is still not using that many of his words for communicating but we are working on that. He will usually point and make noises then if you tell him to say what he wants, he will say it.