Happy Father's Day!

Jim's Father's Day wish was to just chill at the lake with his fam...so that's what we did! He went on a little swim with his offspring to where the dare devils dive off the cliffs. Hannah and Mason loved that part!



Luckily, our little dare devil, Hannah, wasn't interested in diving off herself!

Daddy...he's a good one.

Randomness

Sometimes I just feel compelled to blog about our weather here in AZ. Maybe it's because I take notice of the little things in life...and I usually find great appreciation in them. Or maybe it's just because I'm getting older and that's just what you do when you get older...talk about the weather. At any rate, for all you Phoenicians out there who might be reading this...have we not had the most beautiful June you've ever experienced? The temperatures have been perfectly warm and breezy...and I, personally, am loving it. It's been FANTASTIC lake weather.

I've been awful at remembering to bring my camera to the lake lately...which means I have no NEW pictures from our fun weekend. So I've dug into some archives to share some random pictures this morning.


This is my friend, Bill's, beautiful daughter Melanie. My kids were having a blast blowing bubbles with her at their house a few weeks ago.

And our other friend's Kelli and Jason also brought their cutie pie Kaelyn over to play as well!

I fell in love with her freckles! I wonder if she likes them?

I've known Melanie for 7 years...I met her when she was maybe 3? She's such a little woman now!

Now THIS is a rare find...my husband in uniform. Doesn't he clean up nicely?

And just one to make you smile :)

The D Family

I had the pleasure of taking family pictures for my friends Jon and Mel yesterday...and their baby "M" is to die for! Those LIPS! We had a lot of laughs that day! Here are some of my favorites:

JMK (just my kids)

My kids get sooooo sick of me taking their picture...imagine that. So I try not to stick the camera in their face too often. This is in hopes that when I DO try to take their picture, they won't just run away from me!

I managed to get a few shots of them today...it's been a while! They're getting so big! Hannah weighs 33 pounds and Mason is following closely behind at 31 pounds. It won't be long before he passes her up! She better learn to run fast...because Mason has a lot of paybacks to dish out!

What's up Cuz?

Cousin Jackson and Uncle Michael came over for a little swim today. Our weather has been unusually cool this past week with highs in the low 90's! It's been wonderful...but the kids weren't as interested in being in the pool this time.

So they did a bit of jumping on the trampoline...

This little dare devil wasn't afraid of jumping off the waterfall a few times...just to show the boys who's boss...
A future hall-of-famer...
Here's a picture of Hannah showing off her mad computer skills to the boys...

Happy Birthday Tom!

This week we celebrated Jim's dad's 67th birthday! Tom and Carol came over and we all feasted on filet mignon and stuffed mushrooms. YUM!


Hannah presented Grandpa Tom with his birthday present...a basket filled with all his favorite treats!

And he even shared one of his Krispy Kreme doughnuts with her...they were both in heaven!

Hannah had so much fun baking Grandpa Tom's cake with me earlier that day. She cracked all the eggs, used the mixer, (licked the beaters, of course) and put all the sprinkles on! She loves to help!

Happy 67th Balkus!

Shaq Attack

Look out Shaq! Give a 2 year old a basketball and see what happens?