My birthday

I had a great 32nd birthday!

 Dara and I!

Boots

My grandpa, Papa Van loved to wear boots he was a true texan!  My parents keep two pairs of his boots by the door as decoration and my kids LOVED trying them on!

Garden and Worms

My parents have a beautiful garden and the kids enjoyed picking all the veggies.  This year they had tomatoe bugs eating their tomato plants so grandpa gave them a dollor for finding tomato bugs.  It wasn't easy but they did find a few. 

HOT AND STICKY!!

Even though Louisiana was a tad bit cooler it was YUCKY it was so humid you sweat from every pore in your body.  But with all that moisture did bring lots of greenery.  As we were driving into their town I asked the kids what was different here than in AZ and Reagan immediately said..."There are trees here!"  We really enjoyed the greenery!  But it was still too "sticky" as Tyler put it to play much outside.  One day Grammy got out the sprinkler for the kids to play.

Louisianna here we come~

We left July 7th for LA.  We made great time both days of driving.  On the 12 hour day we only stopped 2 times.  The kids were great and Dara was too!  She made all the meals in the car so we would gas up every 5 hours and take our potty brakes at the same time.  The second day was even better because we had half the amount of driving than the day before.  We surprised my mom by getting earlier that we had said!

The next day they had a ward water party.  the kids had a blast!

Chickens and our first egg

I will start the post with the sad part of the story.  On June 11th we were working in the front yard and our dog, biscuit, ran in front of a car and got hit.  It was a horrible day.  Now you are wondering why I started with that?! Well the reason we did not have chickens was because of Biscuit.  We were afraid she would eat them.  So to help the kids get over Biscuit we went and got 10 chickens... what is better than one pet well 10 of course!  

The kids named every one... Z, Zig Zag Goon, Fluffy, Flutterfly, Scooby Doo, Big Red,Mr. Petty Bones, Lacey, Brownie and Skinny!  do I know which is which... No, I had to ask Reagan just so I could post the names!  Do the kids know which is which... they think they do but they all switch them up all the time.

The next day we even got out first 4 eggs!  We were really excited and these pets don't pee on our carpet.  We still miss Biscuit but it really helped the kids not be so sad.

Cars 2

Tempe Market place had the cars from cars 2 so we headed over to see them.  The kids didn't really care much because it was soooo hot so we just played in the water .