Lisa and kiddos come to Eagar!

Its just to darn hot in Queen Creek, AZ!!

Lisa needed to come to the White Mountains to enjoy our nice

cool weather and get the kids out of the heat! We got lots of rain this week, which really cooled things off nice! The kids had their little rubber boots and umbrellas, all ready for the rain! 

 

 The rain has brought out lots of frogs. At night, after the rain, we can hear all the frogs making lots of noise! One little fellow even made his way into my house!! He was just hopping across my carpet one evening when Lisa and I were watching TV!

Lilly and Lucy thought he was pretty cute. 

Lilly named him Mr. Froggy 

 

 

They loved going down to the chicken coop and gathering the eggs then seeing the horses!

 Landon LOVES being outside!

 They all love the rabbits too.

 And playing in the playground.

 

 The water in the ditch was pretty cold, but Lilly

still wanted to at least put her feet in!

Riding on the 4-wheeler is always a hit!

And a trip to Dairy Queen is always fun!

Its been fun having them all here!

APRICOTS!! First time ever!!

LaVerl planted lots of fruit trees around our house 35 years ago! 

 Some years we get lots of apples, a few pears, always lots of pie cherries, and sometimes a few peaches and plums!

This year we got lots of sweet bing cherries and

APRICOTS!

The big one came from the HUGE tree in the orchard, which had about 10-15 apricots on it!! Everyday we go and pick apricots off the ground that have fallen!

Then I wash them, pit them and put them in the blender to make

fruit leather!

It takes about 12 hours in the food dehydrator.

I roll it up and its finished! LaVerl and the kids 

LOVE it, so its worth all my time to make it!

 Yay for apricots! We ate lots of them and gave some away too!  YUMMY!

July 24th PIONEER DAYS IN SNOWFLAKE

Saturday, (which wasn't the 24th), we took the kids over to Snowflake to watch the really big 24th of July parade. We met Chad and Luann there along with her parents, Jim and Kathie.The kids were super happy that at this parade they also throw candy!!

 

 They had lots of neat floats- the Theme was

"Its a Good Life" Chad & Luann's Ward was the best.

I didn't get picture!!  Darn!

 Look at those full bags! They got frisbee's, otter pops, and 
lots of candy!

 Jim & Kathie Maner

 Chad & Luann

 

Going over to Snowflake worked out really good for Bret.

He was on his way home from a High Adventure Activity with his Ward young men in Colorado and was coming almost right through Snowflake!  That saved him having to drive up to Eagar after he arrived home in Queen Creek and then having to drive back home on Sunday.  

Still Partying!! More grandkids!

Saturday, July 13th, Bret brought his kids to Roosevelt Lake while we were still there. He needed me to watch them for a week because he was going to be gone. They were hoping to go out on the water so the kids could play, but we needed to head home and LaVerl didn't have the battery for our boat. They were sad!

Roosevelt is only an hour and half drive for him instead of a 4 hour drive bringing them all the way to Eagar. 

They've been enjoying our cooler weather,  playing with the rabbits, going to the library, getting out all Gma's 'vintage' toys and helping pick pie cherries!

 Dempsey & Kingston in the tree picking

 First Ivory spilled her cherries!

 London helped her pick them up!

 While trying to get a picture, London dropped her bucket

twice!!!

 Cherries are a lot of work, first you pick then you pit!!

It was great having 4 little helpers!!

Yesterday I took the kids to the outdoor swimming pool in

St. Johns. My phone died, so no pictures!

 

MORE FUN AT ROOSEVELT LAKE!!........ July 11th-13th!

Since Tami & Ryne live in Utah they don't get to go to Roosevelt Lake much, so they asked us and Barry and Lisa (they have the new, cool boat!) all to go to Lake. We left Thursday after noon. LaVerl needed to haul our boat back anyway because it was here after he went fishing at Lake Powell.

I went with Lisa and the 3 kids to help her on the 3 hour drive.

We arrived about 6:30pm and Tami's family got there about and hour later. 

Friday morning everyone headed to the lake in Barry's boat except the 3 babies stayed with Gma & Gpa and took their morning naps.

We worked around the place, watering, hanging fans outside and putting picnic table coverings on. 

Landon was the first one to wake up.

 Gpa even took a little nap too.

 Then all 3 were awake and had fun cooling off in the little pool.

 Then we took the babies out to the lake.

Lilly

Lucy

 Landon LOVED the water!!

 

 Sisters!

Adlee was a little dare devil.  She wasn't afraid to jump off

the boat or whatever the big boys were doing! 

Floaties make you fearless!!

The Peters family, without Adlee!!

 Ryne tried surfing for the first time and did good. 
Lisa and Barry made it look easy!!

 The water was perfect! So much fun!

Blake

Colter (that's his 'I'm having fun face!)

Adlee

Getting off the lake got kind tricky! The wind and clouds came so we decided it was time to get off the lake, so Ryne swam up to the ramp so he could go get the truck and trailer.  Barry tried to get the boat on the trailer, but it was just too windy. He hollered at Ryne to go to Windy Hill to the dock there and we took off. The only problem with that was that Ryne had no clue where Windy Hill was! The ride over was WAY bumpy and wild but Lilly slept right through it!

 Also there are two ramps at Windy Hill, but Ryne did eventually find us! FUN DAY!!

After the lake we went to 'Bostons' for their BBQ wings,
So YUMMY!