AZ State Fair 2010

We are hoping that our pictures' for this years AZ state fair will do good. This year we are putting in 12 pictures all together. Jodi with 4 and me with 8. We think at least 2 will get honorable mention and I hope at least one will place. Any winning picture's might get posted on our photography blog. We will see.

Longish post about summer happenings......

Another year has flown by so fast. We celebrated our 8 Year anniversary on Aug. 2! Wow 8 years together and still lovin' it! We are looking forward to many more crazy years together! It has been a very busy summer for us, all of my side of the family and some of Scott's side all have birthdays within a a couple of weeks of each other through out the summer months so we have a lot of parties to go to. We went to my Sister(her 25th) and her husbands(his 30th) combined bday party at a pool center that they rented out in Gilbert. It was a blast just having the people that they invited at the pool and not anyone else. We played again at a water park for our Nephew Morgan's 10th b-day, loved it but did not like the pool after I got a huge owie on my knee from the bottom of the pool, but had fun with all 20ish nephews and neices on scotts side! While we waited for another party or b-day to come we just worked, worked, and worked some more. We spent the 4th of July up at my mom's in Prescott Valley, we will probably continue to go there for every 4th of July until we die, b/c you cannot beat the lower degrees of heat or more and of course the Rain! Then my dreaded 31st b-day came (it means that i am another year older and still it is just me and Scott living our daily lives, with no children added to the mixture) I got a new DVD player and a couple of seasons of The Big Bang Theory.(love , love , love that show) Then a week later it was off to the 24th Pioneer Festivities in Safford, Az. We stayed with my aunt again and had a blast this year, It poured really, really good. And the best part was that we saw and hung out with my sister and her family most of the weekend! Then the next weekend was Scott's B-day weekend and our Aniversary. We left on Thursday night and headed back up to my mom's for a 4 day mini-vaca away from the heat! We went to the movies, explored alot of the mountains that are in prescott area, ate at some of our favorite places (one of them reminds my husband of the food that he ate while on his mission in Toronto, Canada. So we go there any time we visit my mom), oh yeah and did i mention that it rained on us the entire time we were there, we love rain! I also went mud boggin in the SUV, so much rain had fallen that I got mud almost all the way up the tires and part of the suv (needless to say it really needed a bath). The sad part was that we had to come back to reality that the summer is almost over and that there is not more traveling going to happen and that the busy months for Jodi are coming up ( not looking forward to them, but love the paychecks) until the next summer for more traveling! Oh how we will miss you, You Traveling Bug!

"FIRE"

On our way to Prescott Valley this 4th of July weekend Jodi and I saw 2 wildland fires. This picture is from the second fire. I had Jodi pull of the highway so I can take some pictures. I think it was kind of cool to see the helicopter dropping water.

AZ Game & Fish Expo

We went to the Arizona Game and Fish Expo a few weeks ago with other family members. We had a great time seeing all sorts of birds of prey and others. This is one of my favorite pictures I took there. It was fun seeing the little kids trying to cast their fishing lines into the water. They just don't have it down yet but soon. It was a good day to get out of the valley and enjoy the cool pines.