Hulks first park!

Have I mentioned we have the coolest cat ever!? He is a riot and a half! Every week we take a drive just to look and see whats around. A couple weeks ago we decided to go have a picnic at a park then go for our drive. Hulk LOVED it! He went head first into a creek! I didnt say he was smart. I said he was cool. As long as there arent a lot of cars or people around he will walk on his leash and explore. 

We also saw the coolest house that I know my sister in law would love. So its on here for you!

Hulk playing in the leaves.

By the river! He liked the river oddly enough.

The house!

Beauty!

Looking at the river!

Talesin West by Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright began building this desert masterpiece in 1937 as his personal winter home, studio, and architectural campus. Located on the beautiful Sonoran desert in the foothills of the McDowell Mountains in northeast Scottsdale, the site offers a broad range of guided public tours.  Visitors experience firsthand Wright’s brilliant ability to integrate indoor and outdoor spaces.

Shelbi was VERY excited to go see this house. We decided to go and take a 90 minute tour and it was awesome. Here are a few pictures. We werent able to take any pictures of the inside unfortunately.

These were all over the property.

This was one of the rooms that they held meetings in.

The ceiling was canvas. That drawing is one that Frank Lloyd Wright submitted to Phoenix to use as a capitol building. It was never used as a whole. Although parts of it are.

The Front of the house and the area we werent allowed to go in.

The pool! It was only about 2 feet deep if that. And I wanted to go swim so bad!

One of the many artistic things they had on the property.

One of the towers that held water.

Another pool. And they wouldnt let me get in it!

Bell tower!

This beauty blew fire and was hooked to a gass line. But they only turn him on at night.

Statue garden.

And they little beauty was the most well behaved thing ever! We miss her VERY much!

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Cibo

On Monday before Stefen went to school and before we went to the Botanical Gardens Shelbi decided to take us to the supposedly REALLY good pizza place. So we made the trek to downtown and discovered the menu was mostly in Italian and there was NO pizza. But there were really amazing sandwichs and salads.

Typical Stefen

Miss E and Shelbi

My sandwich with brushoto and tomatoe.

Stefens with steak I think.

Shelbis with eggplant

Anns salad

Not wanting sunscreen!

Friends say Happy Birthday!

On Sunday while Ann, Shelbi, and Miss E were here we had a birthday party with our friends. 

Miss E being bat girl!

Miss E getting her head massaged!

Uncle Button found a nice pillow for his head.

Strawberry cake with chocolate frosting! YUMM

Miss E being silly

Jaden massaging his head!

Stefen and Adam chilling

Jaden being a fashion diva!

It was a fun filled night with lots of laughs and silliness!

Bang Bang goes the drum!

Stefens mom Ann, sister Shelbi, and niece Little Miss E came to visit us for a week! And let me tell you we LOVED it! We even got to be tourists in the state we live in and we got to see a lot of fun stuff! Our first stop was the Musical Instrumental Museum or the MIM. It had ALL sorts of instruments from EVERY part of the world. It was Very cool. Here are some of my favorite pictures!

Poor Elsi got cut off. They were standing in front of this GIANT bass thing! This room had the tiniest and largest instruments! It was AWESOME!

Miss E listening to the tour and the music! She loved these Head phones!

Miss E in front of the ALL music machine thingy. It plays all sorts of instruments. I wish I could have heard it play. It was ginormous!

Miss E and Shelbi banging on the drum!

Stefen got really good at these and was playing a recognizable song.

Miss E playing the BIG drum

Miss E bonging away.

Stefen showing me how to do this weird thing.

Miss E just loved this one. She would make a funny noise!

Me doing the bong. I guess it was vibrating real hard. HA ha

Stefen going in for the kill

Introducing....

This sweet little angel was born last Monday the 5th to Stefens oldest sister and brother in law. Her name is Elsi. Isnt she adorable? We cant wait to meet and cuddle with this sweet angel!

Waxing Fun!!!

So Shelbi and Jena brought wax so they could have lots of fun!! Here are some pictures.

 Jena and Shelbi talking

 Applying the wax

 The dobb of wax

 Mustache wax

 Jena and the mustache wax

 Talking

 Grammys turn

 Even Stefen had a turn

 Jena thought it would be cool to do Stefens nose.