Queen Creek Olive Mill

Yesterday the weather was fantastic.  It was in the 80's and cloudy a few sprinkles here and there.  We decided to head out to the Queen Creek Olive Mill.  With our new allergy free diet I wanted some fun olive oil to replace our butter, mayo etc.  So we picked up bacon and vanilla flavored olive oils.  Can't wait to try them.  We weren't planning on staying for lunch but Maizy woke up and needed fed and it was lunch time so we ate lunch there.  Croix love, love, loved running around through all the trees.  There were some train tracks and he thought it was so fun to walk on them.  He wanted to be a big boy and not hold my hand while walking on them, so instead  he held my bum most of the time to help him keep his balance.  So independent my little man.

Maizy enjoyed the breeze

Croix showing Daddy his "pickle"  aka olive.

He went to get some more water and walked back oh so carefully!

His shoes were quickly abandoned.

"Pickle"

Maizy was so happy I couldn't resist lovin' on her.

Croix promptly joined in, he loves his sister!

I sure love him!

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Croix and his cheesy faces.  You know what the say, if you can't be 'em join

The sky was amazing!  Truly breath taking!

Maizy pretty much hates riding in the car.  She will do ok if I ride back there with her.  It's a good think I'm tiny!  I barely, barely fit!

All tuckered out

Croix and I were bored on the way home, so we made silly faces.

Surprised!

My favorite!

Angry

Tired

That afternoon we went to the park with some friends.  Our children ran and played.  We enjoyed the beautiful out doors.  It makes me long for the days when we can go to the park again.  Thank goodness they are just around the corner!  already the highs are only in the low 100s!  You better believe we'll be outside everyday once that thermometer stays at 100 or lower!!  Come on fall we're waiting for you!

Lucky Number Seven

I've heard of the seven year itch.  No itching going on here.  We are still so in love!  Still love spending time together and being together.  Still learning more about each other.  We are quite comfortable with each other, a little too much at times.  We are learning from each other.  We are growing together.

It been a wonderful seven years.  Who knows what the future holds for us?  I sure don't, but I do know what ever is in store for us we'll be side by side through it all!

Natural History Musuem

When my family was in town we were trying to figure out what to do that was indoors, affordable and something we all (grownups and children) could enjoy.  It was a stroke of genius that I remembered the downtown mesa museums were free that day, so we headed over the the "dinosaur museum".  We called to confirm it was their free day about and hour and 10 minutes before they closed.  So we all quickly got dress (yes dressed at 3:50 in the afternoon) and loaded up and hurried over.

Seth Loved it!

Seth and Croix showing me their scary dinosaur faces.

Travis and Stef

Chelsea and Croix

Everyone watching the flash flood.

The whole family, well minus the two brothers, a sister in law, my sister and brother in law and nephew.  The whole family that was there :)

(Random boy, Grandma, Seth, Trenton, Travis, Chelsea, Croix, Brent, Stef, more random people)

Croix thought it was too loud.

Checking out the gila monster

Roar!

Locking Croix in jail

Seth imprisoned

It was lots of fun, so glad I remembered it was their free day!

Party Time

That blog title is a little bit of a misrepresentation of Croix's birthday party this year. We kept it small, just family and cake and ice cream. Croix loves when family comes so he didn't mind one bit.  We were very excited to have my brother Travis and sister in law Stef come from LA.

My Mom made the cake and did a phenomenal job! Croix loved his Chuggington cake so so much!!

We ended having to put it in the oven to keep it safe from him.

Croix loved all his presents. He got lots of puzzles, notebooks, markers colored pencils and dinosaurs. He also got a watch and a home made bracelet from Aunt Chelsea. When we were asking him what he wanted for his birthday he said "an iPod and a phone". What the heck?!?! I thought he's turning 3 not 13!!

I love watching him open presents, he's adorable! 

 When we did cake and ice cream Croix blew out his candles before we could sing.   So we lit them again and he did a great job anxiously awaiting the end of the song!

 We pulled out his birthday banner and hung it up on the wall.  Whenever he would come downstairs and see it he would say "It's my happy birthday to me!" 

I Love To See The Temple

We were going to go to the Gilbert temple site on Monday for FHE.  I also decided to try to give Maizy a bottle for the first time.  That took about an hour so we decided to wait until the next week to go.  Tuesday morning Croix came downstairs and said, "Mommy we didn't go to the temple yesterday".  So we decided to go that night.  The church website said the visitors center was open until 8 so we headed down.  Maizy screamed the whole way there (She sure hates car rides).  When we finally got there there was a sign on the door saying the visitors center closed at 4.  So we stood in 110 degree heat for about 5 minutes (just long enough to get a few pictures) and then headed back home.  We'll have to try again on a Monday night when it is open until 8!

We love the temple.