Father's Day

When I asked Devin what he wanted to do for Father's Day, would you believe he said that he wanted to go shopping at the mall? I know, unlikely story, but it's true! We both have gift cards to spend and we both desperately need new clothes. Unfortunately, we never made it there. After a big breakfast, we were too lazy to go anywhere. So we stayed home, relaxed, played with Kayla, and snacked all day long. Then I told Devin to browse through our collection of cook books and pick ANYTHING he liked and I would make it for dinner. That task was to overwhelming for him so he left it up to me to decide. Of course I chose something simple: Penne pasta with bell peppers and spicy Italian sausage. It was super yummy! I'm so glad I finally got Devin to like pasta!

Kayla LOVES to dance! As soon as she hears music, she starts to shake her hips side to side. But everytime I try to get the camera to record her, she stops! This time I got a good 10 seconds of her rocking out.

Then Devin busted out the guitar to play a tune for us. Kayla likes to help strum the strings.

1st Annual Sisters Trip

All of my life I longed for siblings and thanks to Devin, I now have 5 awesome sisters! So last weekend we all got together for some girl time, NO husbands and NO kids (except for one nursing baby)! It was an inexpensive vacation (even after all the shopping we did). Since Devin's Dad goes up to Utah for the summer, we were able to stay at his Arizona house so we didn't have to pay for a hotel. And since it's only 4 hours away, I drove there so I didn't have to pay for a plane ticket. That meant more spending money in my pocket! It was great! We ate out EVERY night! No cooking or doing dishes when you're on vacation...

We hit up several malls every day. Finding bargains is hard work! So we took a 2 hour break to see a chick flick (Letters to Juliet). Here we are, off to do more shopping...

The weather was so gorgeous we spent alot of time outside. Normally, it's triple digits in June in Arizona, but I bet it didn't even hit 90.

Just chillin', not a care in the world...

Enjoying the sunshine...

Who's Mommy? This was our weekend to be FREE...

I really do hope that we do this every year. I had a GREAT time! The best surprise was after I came home and got on the scale, I had actually lost 2 pounds! It must have been all of the calories we burned shopping for hours.

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I extended my vacation by taking Monday off too so I could just hang out with Kayla. I missed her, but I don't think she even noticed I was gone for 3 days.

May Days

So I'm a little behind on my blogging. May was a busy month for us. Here's a recap of some of our favorite moments...

May 2 - All the years that we've been members of the Living Desert, we've never hiked the Eisenhower Trail. So Michele and I decided to finally go check it out before they closed the trail for the summer when it's too hot. The Wilderness Loop is 3.5 miles (5 miles from the parking lot). This view is about a mile up from the canyon's entrance looking back at the direction we came from.

It was a very nice hike. This picnic bench is at the half-way point, elevation 1000 ft.

May 9 - No, I didn't get the breakfast in bed (or even a card) that I wanted for Mother's Day. But that's okay. Maybe next year Devin will get the hint. I was happy enough to enjoy a beautiful, lazy Sunday with my husband and little girl!

Various dates - Just some misc. pictures of Kayla being cute.

She likes to read the junk mail.

May 18 - Happy 35th Birthday to me! We went to Harry's BBQ and had ribs again. We used the money we both got for our birthdays from my family, plus we had a coupon for buy one get one free!

Then we came home and had cake. Yay!

May 19 - The ice cream truck drives down our street EVERY night! We don't normally buy ice cream, we just like to watch him go by. But this happened to be Kayla's lucky day! I was inside washing dishes while Devin was outside with Kayla and our neighbor got it for her.

May 22 - Another Saturday morning at the park with Connor.

Some ducks walked through the playground and Kayla and Connor immediately started chasing them!

Awh, look at that cute face! After the park, she came home and snacked on some yogurt. As you can see, she's still not very good with her utensils yet.

May 23 - Kayla LOVES to watch and dance to Yo Gabba Gabba!

May 29 - Kayla hasn't played outside much lately so she was excited to find her favorite pet rock!

A doggie, a ball, and a rock-what more could a kid want?

May 30 - Since it was Memorial Day weekend, Michele and I hiked up to the top of the Bump and Grind trail at 5:15am to sprinkle some of Pookie's and Zoey's ashes. We used to hike there alot with the dogs so we had alot of good memories to reminisce on the way up. We found a nice spot off the trail and made rock piles and sprinkled their ashes on top.

By noon we were at Mike and Christian's pool party. This was Kayla's first time in a swimming pool! But she loves the bathtub so I knew she wouldn't be afraid of the water.

She didn't care much for the arm floaties, but she loved riding around the pool in her penguin float!

Taking a break to eat a turkey burger. Yummy!

Okay, all rested and ready to go swimming again.

And of course, CAKE! Happy 36th Birthday Devin!