Graduation Anyone?

Well about 2 weeks ago Stephanie and the kids left to Arizona for her brother Sterlings graduation. Since Erics sister Loni was graduating the night after Sterling we wouldn't have been able to spend time in Pinetop. So Stephanie and the kids left a week early so they could spend time with the family and Eric flew in the night before graduation.
We had a great time in Arizona. Stephanie just enjoyed being back home in the mountains and smelling the fresh pine air and spending time with everyone.
We had the opportunity to go and feed the horses at the equestrian center which the kids just absolutely loved. Stephanie was okay with the idea of feeding a horse until she tried and saw the horses huge teeth and the she frieked out and couldn't do it.




When eric arrived we went to the Mogollon Rim which is just a short fun nature trail along with Serina and her kids.


Thursday night we went to Sterlings graduation and watched him graduate and friday morning we were on the road heading back up to Marysvale to watch Loni graduate and we arrived at the gym with 5 minutes to spare!! We arrived at Eric brothers house to get ready right at 6 o'clock and it was a race for that hour to get everyone fed, dressed and over to the gym. For both graduations Stephanie and Eric rotated with Jacoby. The little stinker didn't like to sit still for long at all.... We do have great kids though. Stefan and Janine were good through out both graduations. They were really good.

Fathers and Sons

Eric took Stefan and his cousins Aadric and Kaedrin on fathers and sons! They had a blast. While they were gone Stephanie and Janine painted their nails and went out to dinner and then went to Claire's in the Mall and bought Janine som big girl jewelery. Janine came back with headbands, a bracelet, ring and necklace. Stephanie and Janine both had a lot of fun together.


Eric and the boys showed up back home the next morning and boy did the stink like the outdoors. Eric was in charge of breakfast that morning and had 3 little helpers to assist him. They all had a great time. Each boy had their own stories to share about what they did and what happened.

Feel Like Camping?

We bought a new tent this year! This tent is ssssoooo much easier to put up than our other tent! Our old tent is almost 7 years old and has started to leak when it rains...and we broke a pole last summer when we were camping. it was actually pretty funny because we were already tired from breaking camp and just when you are almost done and you just want to get the tent down and in the car SNAP!! there goes the pole! HAHA!
We wanted to buy a tent that was easier to put up and we did find one. This tent is a 6 man tent while our other one is an 8 man tent. but the new tent is perfect for us and will fit in camp sites. the other one was always a tight fit and most of the time we were Squished.




We put up the tent and enjoyed the rest of the afternoon just laying down and relaxing in the tent. It actually did feel like we were camping. The kids were upset when we took it down but Eric promised that he would sleep outside with the kids in the tent before fathers and sons.