Catch up again..........

My phone downloading to my computer has been on the fritz AGAIN!  It is so annoying.  Anyway, I'm all backed up, so here I go AGAIN, trying to play catch up with our life.

Remember THIS shed (on the trailer above)?    Well in a matter of TWO DAYS, it had been entirely taken apart and stacked in the shop. (see below)

It will be entirely re-built, and you won't even be able to tell it's the same shed by the time it is finished.  It's going to take a little longer, and be a little harder, because when we checked out the wet well/pump situation, the water table is TOO HIGH to work on getting things changed out at this point, so we will just have to be patient and wait.  Zac is not a patient person like his mom...........so it will be temporarily built IN THE SHOP..... stay tuned for more updates on this. 

Hannah, Cam, Dave? and Christine
Cam spent a fun weekend in COOL Flagstaff with her cousins.  They had a great time, and it was good to get out of the 120 degree heat of Chandler AZ. 

Our chickens are laying like gang busters...........we have this one chicken though, who is mighty stressed (haha) 

July birthday celebration.  These are the birthday boys.
It would be nice if we could get everyone to look AT THE CAMERA and SMILE........ but we take what we can get, right?
Dad is 83, Landon is 32, Mark is 53, Brian is 24 and Roger D. is 62

Then we grabbed most of the grandsons..........and I totally forgot to get Zac and Landon in this picture (duh!)  Dax, Tag, Thatcher, Payson, Brian, and Devin and Thatcher in front. 

My parents, 83 years young. LOVE THEM !! 

Miss Bexlee Boo loves the swing

Brightyn is sitting on my lap, and I'm sitting in the tube, and we are FLOATING down East Canyon Creek.  Look for a video in the future (when I get some time).  

Landon and Bexlee were quite the pair.  Bex LOVED LOVED LOVED it.  

Another project that was completed, was an early morning cement pour at Zac's.  
An approach, linking the asphalt to the gravel (to the "barn") was poured.........

And under the lean-to out back of the "barn".

There was alot of labor to get the cement where it needed to go.  Good thing we had some muscle !

Rog, Zac, and Treyson provided the muscle, and Ernie and Steve did the smoothing and finishing. 

It is nice to have another "man" in the family who is big and strong enough to help.

As always, it's a worry........will there be enough cement to do the job?  Have I calculated correctly?   Zac was up most of the night before worrying (another trait he inherited from his mom).  Thankfully, there was just a little bit left over, and they were able to use it in front of the chicken run, which is habitually a dirt spot. 

Cam and Manda headed out last weekend for a fun-filled day trip to Jerome. Manda is rockin' her new haircut.  I wish I had her confidence and style.  Love THEM !!! 

More floating the creek, with my friend Angie and her grandson Cooper

The garden is still going strong.  We are going to have a bumper crop of pumpkins and squash.  I'm looking forward to the harvest party we will have in September/October. 

And now for the PINK LADIES........

Bright and Bex had their hair dyed, and it turned out so cute :)

And I sacrificed another sign to the cause (new shed cause).  It is so calming to know that I will have a job for another 4 years, without having to worry about the election.  Hallelujah !!