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I'm going to stalk my own blog so I can have a follower!  :D

I've been busy. I should write about it. But I think I'll take a nap first!

Home Alone

I'm home alone tonight. Younger kids are all tucked away at Stephanie's house and the olders are resting nicely in Nauvoo, I hope!  Scott is on a campout with the scouts. So, here I am.

I made broccoli soup in a bread bowl. A bit strange since I don't even cook often for the family and it's hot outside. But I've been craving it and it sounded so good. I was going to start painting the "new" boys room, but decided I wouldn't pull out all the paint stuff tonight. I'll get a good start early in the morning. In the morning, is another day. I hope I have some drive to get stuff done tomorrow!!

Beauty on the road to hell. :) Just kidding! Amazing Beauty!

So, we traveled down to Hell oops, I mean Mesa today! (Hell only refers to the heat here!) On the way we got off at the Sedona turnoff and went the opposite direction of Sedona in order to go to a little creek called Beaver Creek. It was Beautiful and we had a wonderful time!!  Here are some pictures from that. I apologize but my camera had a smudge on the lens, so if it looks blurry, it is!

The red rocks were the reddest rocks I have ever seen!!  These pictures don't at all do justice to them, but it was amazing.

It was deep enough in spots to jump off the rocks into the water.

Again, the camera doesn't capture the beauty of the landscape, but it was amazing.

My little lizard sunning himself on the rocks trying to stay warm.

Us under the fuzzy camera lens. :)

Bearizona Fun!

As promised, a few pictures from the Bearizona trip. I wish it was sooner, but the internet wasn't too quick at the cabin and it was driving me nuts!  Bearizona is a Zoo/Wild Animal park in Williams. It is about two years old. You drive a 3 mile loop and see all kinds of neat animals up close and personal. Then they have exhibits that are like a zoo and the baby animals are in pins. And they also have a petting zoo. It was really neat!

These are white bison. the picture is not good as it was taken through the window. But they were huge and pretty cool. In the petting zoo part there was a baby white bison that looked like a tiny little cow. But it is going to grow up to be huge like these guys!  So cute!

These are the crazy bears!! We probably saw 5 or so more than this. It was eating time so they were pretty active. They gave us a show and a couple of them started a little fight. It was pretty cool and scary! 

The baby bears were the coolest!!  They were rambunctious and fun to watch! We watched them for quite a while. At eating time they were playful with the worker and tried to take her buckets, climb her legs and all kinds of stuff.  This picture was cool cause that little guy is on his hind legs begging.

And this was so fun. These little guys got way high up in a tiny tree and played around. It was swaying back and forth and they didn't seem to care at all. Sooo cute!

Williams

We are so blessed to have a place to call home in Williams, AZ! It is truly a home away from home for us. We only come a couple of times a year, so that makes us sad, but we invite people up to use it and hopefully it gets enough love! Since it's summer break we took the first opportunity to come up! We've been here for a few days and finally went out on some great adventures today!!

First off a hike that wasn't too short and wasn't too long and was beautiful! It took us to some Indian ruins and petroglyphrics. Here are some pictures.

After hiking a ways we came to the meadow with BIG rocks!

Carter hiking around.

Brodric and the pietroglyphrics. (Long word, but Kendahl educated us that they aren't hieroglyphics.)

Caves

 Ok, there were some more really cute pictures of the caves and kids on top of the big rocks, but seriously it's taken FOREVER just to get this dang blogger to allow these!  So I ran out of patience.  Maybe another time!!

K, now if I can get any other pictures to download I would like to show the other half of the day. We had a great time at Bearizona!!  It is a drive through zoo, wildlife animal park thing. It is way cool! So tomorrow I'll try to get those pictures up. They are way cute!

For now I'm done!  Worn out from a long day.  :)

Brodric's Baptism

This handsome young man was baptized on June 4th! He turned 8 only two days earlier and was excited about his baptism!

I took this picture before someone told me that I can't take photo's in the chapel.  But it turned out so cute I had to share!  :)

This is Brodric's freind John who was baptized a few months earlier than him. He is a convert and is 10 years old. I think he was a really good example for Brodric!

These are most of the cousins that are Brodric's age. Brodric was the first to be baptized, but the rest will come quickly. In fact, Charli is going to be baptized this weekend!

So, we had a swim party for him, and that is why he is scantly dressed.  :)  He had a music birthday cake. Thank heavens for Costco. I didn't have time to do one!!

Another pict of the cute cousins his age.

And, here's the fam after the baptism. Pretty good day I'd say.

Kendahl Graduated!

Well, here she is, the Graduate!!  And it's all uphill from here. We're proud of Kendahl and her wonderful grades and her admittance to BYU! We love her and look forward to all the exciting things to come!