Holiday, Anniversary, and Weather

The last few weeks I've remained busy with the day to day tasks of being a wife and a mother, and all the additional things required to get settled into a new home. Things are coming together and I am hoping to get a good number of our pictures hung this weekend. Then it should really feel like home...

(for those of you who don't know - this is the Oryx David shot 2 years ago)

To update on the fun things that have happened since my last entry:

We celebrated the 4th at Veteran's Memorial Park in Sierra Vista. It is a beautiful park with lots of things for the kids to play on (the good ol' stuff like METAL slides, merry go rounds, monkey bars...). I imagine that at least half of the town was there, but the park is big enough that you didn't feel it was that crowded. The kids had a great time playing, and loved the fireworks display (David and I were impressed too).

David and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary last Saturday. We had a wonderful dinner (the kids were angels), but had to forego the candlelight because Tristan kept wanting to see the "fire". We then went shopping at Lowes, Wal Mart, and Target - how's that for romance???

Here are some pictures of our new home, and the views we have from it. It is gorgeous! The weather here is just amazing - of course in other areas of the country you'd look at some of the clouds and say "get to shelter NOW!"

Views from: our backyard (left and center) and our front yard

Pictures of one of the storms that rolled through... it's monsoon season.

The "dry" creek bed that runs behind our house

Tristan standing out in the rain and saying "Mommy, rain!"

Grace has been all about helping these days...


Our little golfer

Helping Mommy in the kitchen Helping Daddy paint her bookshelf

Now that things are getting settled, I will make a more vigilant effort to get back to my weekly posts so I don't get so long winded...