Home Sweat-y Home

After three weeks of fun with family, we returned home.  I was a bit nervous to actually be going it on my own with three children and a newborn, but we have survived!  I even ventured to the library and to the store with all four kids!   Back in AZ, we only had three weeks until school began again.  We swam as much as possible, played with friends, tumbled, and went on a few outings.  The girls had a summer "Challenge Chart" of goals to complete in categories like reading, memorization, and cooking.  They worked hard to finish before school began.

Curly last swim meet

We gave the girls a tumbling mat for their bday s- hours of fun!

Every night we take Lou to the bathroom before we go to bed.  It is almost impossible to wake her up and hilarious to watch her stagger or sometimes just stand in one spot and sway as she tried to navigate herself to the bathroom.  She usually can't make it back into bed on her own and when she does she flops over as soon as she reaches the top of the ladder.

Lou's legs

 The weeks before school began we took a day trip to the Sedona area to go hiking and enjoy the scenery.  Why hadn't we gone there before?!?  It was very beautiful AND 20 degrees cooler.   We hike about 2 miles to a creek and enjoyed a picnic lunch in the shade.  Even with the change in temperature, it was still in the low 90s and we were very hot by the time we finished - especially the backpack toting adults.

Ready to go

Time for lunch

  

Fisher rigged up a cradle for baby boy

Wading in the creek

 

Cool Ocotilla and the view isn't bad either

Too much hiking for Berry

Cathedral rock

Cooling off with a slushee

Finally, a few shots from around the house - 

Sweet smiles

Father and Son snooze

A rare scene for Lou

Berry's first pigtails

Ice cream cone leftovers