A Touch Of Tyrell

Whenever I talk to people about the weather here I always tell them it's HOT until Halloween and then it just becomes less hot. Jake always thinks I'm exaggerating but I'm not. After going to Colorado for the Fall he finally joined my team. Team: 'lets move someday'.  It's still hot. Like high 80's, low 90's. The nice thing is that at least it cools down at night now. It's SUPER nice first thing in the morning. It's a dream. The sunrise this morning was gorgeous.   I LOVE being able to see some mountains from my bedroom window. It fact, we can see mountains from almost every window in our house. I feel super lucky and I love it! They still have a section of neighborhood to build so I think most of our view will go away... but it's been beautiful while it's lasted!  This morning, Roxy and I dug up the dead plants in our front yard and then planted new, different ones. Plants that can survive the hottest hot AZ has ...

We were invited to a breakfast and pumpkin carving party Saturday morning. Jake was still out of town so it was nice to have something to do that was fun. Breakfast was great (breakfast casserole, buttermilk pancakes with THE BEST homemade syrup, bacon, sausage, pumpkin donuts, yogurt and granola... it was good!) and then carving pumpkins. Everett carved a lego batman looking thing into his and Breckie painted hers.  The seeds inside one of our pumpkins were sprouting already, it was pretty cool. They also had a whole roll of halloween drawings for the kids to color. Genius! Plus it was at a park so it was a really fun morning for all of us.  Then that evening was the ward trunk-or-treat. I had the best homemade chili ever. It was so rich and bacon-y and the cornbread I had was more like yellow cake (it actually might have been :). Delicious. There was homemade rootbeer and homemade macaroni and cheese for the chili haters (Everett and Roxy :) There was a ...

Another thing that happened when Jake was out of town was Mother/Son kickball. It was a huge hassle trying to find someone to watch the girls but it ended up being pretty fun.   Plus, we had pizza and Kona Ice so Everett was pretty stoked :)

We have a lime tree in our backyard. It produced so many limes in it's first year! Roxy likes when I break one open and she'll such on it for an hour. She loves them.  I think they're ripe near the end of August... but there are still so many on our tree. Some have turned yellow and have fallen off. The other day we gathered up a handful and jumped on the trampoline with them And still, with dozens more, we made lime-inaide. Roxy isn't ever sure if they're limes or lemons so she calls them "lime-ins" :) I love spending time with this crazy girl!

Jake and Diet Coke have been friends for several years now. Maybe like 6 or 7 years. But lately the kids have been asking (or sneaking) diet coke too! It happened while Jake was on his dunes trip. Everett found a soda in the fridge and then it was a constant fight until it was gone.  Roxy has been trowing her 'terrible two' tantrums lately and she didn't hold anything back when Everett took the diet coke.  Now I'm going to have to wean my whole family off of Diet Coke!

Jake was out of town for his annual boys trip and it seemed like something happened every day that he was gone.  One night we went to the Boo Bash at a neighboring school. Our friend is the PTO lady and invited us.  We had pizza and popcorn, potion and cupcakes, and even had a goodie bag on the way out! Yay for not needing to cook dinner!

Roxy loves her babies and I think it's the cutest thing ever. They each have a bottle and she is always feeding them :) I think she's ready for a minivan! I love spending time with each kid alone... and Roxy and I have so much of that time! She's my little bestie... and I'm definitely hers! She gets so mad whenever anyone else needs my attention or touches me :)