Super Something

Lincoln has decided that with all of his costumes he is going to make a different hero each week. He has also decided that all of the creations shall have the same name.

The name shall be MIX-RYE! This is the first weeks super hero. As you can see, he has put a lot of thought into creating this.
This is Mix-Rye testing out his super powers on Doug. It's obvious that Doug is no match.

Lincoln has been telling us for the past couple of months that he really needs glasses. He even took Doug into the Walmart optical and picked out some blue Super hero frames that he was sure that he needed. (Ssshhh, I think they were Hannah Montana) Doug was beginning to fill the pressure and started checking prices at the optical centers. Luckily, while Lincoln and I were on our date last week, we found these really handsome glasses at Claires. They were only 8.00. Bargain! We bought both him and Brinley a pair and I do believe that was money well spent. He feels that he can see better and he wears them to school. I am asked to clean them often with my special glass cleaning cloth. School picture day was last week and I did let him know that he may want to take them off because of the glare. Wheeew! He told me that he hid them behind Zachary. Lucky us! Anyway, these are my silly happy kids in their fancy glasses. I believe I could make the below pictures black and white and he would look just like he belongs on My Three Sons. (hee, hee)

Kids

This is a fun big park that we found out in Chandler. The ground is covered in wood chips and there is a roof overhead to block the hot sun. There are little covered picnic areas all over that look like small barns and people rent them for birthday parties. The parties are huge. I think we will end up coming here on a regular basis.

This is Brinley on the playground. I was sitting over by this little climbing aparatus and every dad that saw it would encourage (or force) their child to try it and they would for about 2 seconds and run off, then the dad's would try it. I'm not sure what was so fascinating about it but the men liked it.

Lincoln was going crazy on this motorcycle. I was cracking up because he tried every move that a guy with a new dirt bike would try. Luckily it was bolted to the ground.

This is a man made rock for the kids to climb. Brinley climbed up and down and up and down and about 10 minutes later and a little courage, Lincoln climbed up.

After Lincoln made it to the top Brinley climbed down as fast as she could and climbed up again and back down. After trying for about 5 minutes, Lincoln was a strong boy and just jumped off.

This is Lincoln showing me how he uses the smart board at school. It is just like the weather mans on tv. He moves all the letters from one side to the other and switches screens with the touch of his finger. It's pretty neat. I was impressed. They have these in all the classrooms.

Lincoln is taking a golf class after school with about 10 other kids. It has been a lot of fun and he has learned a lot. I don' t know if he will do it again because he really wants to start into Karate.

New backyard

This is our backyard before last week. Rocks from the patio to the back wall. Scenic, I know.


This is our yard after last week.
We have grass and it's green and we have bushes, they are small but they will grow and trees that will grow. Yay for us!

This is the lemon meringue pie that Doug and I made from the lemons someone handed out at work from off of their tree. We almost have it perfected.

Happy Birthday Doug

This was our little trip home from Utah. We went to see Doug's mom for Doug's big birthday. There are so many beautiful and different areas that I had to take some pictures. We had snow on the ground in Southern Utah and in Flagstaff but it was warm desert in between the cold. The bridge that we walked across is called Navajo Bridge which is accessed from Fredonia. This was a very fun but long drive. HAPPY BIRTHDAY DOUG!

Princess Party

On Saturday Brinley attended her first Princess Party at the clubhouse. They suggested that we dress them up all fancy. Brinley chose her clothes and asked for makeup, earrings, tights and finger nail polish.

They had a grand entrance and rolled out the red carpet just for the 50 princesses.

All the tables were decorated with fancy tablecloths, bows, sparkles and of course a lot of pink.

They had them sit down and go over the manners of a Princess while letting them frost and decorate a cookie with some punch.

Princess Tiawna from the "Princess and the frog" was the special guest at the party. She read Princess stories to all the princesses. They had lots of activities like; place the kiss on the frog, decorate your own crown, hula hoops and face painting. Very fun day for all the little girls.

Camera Time

This would be the attire that was worn when Brinley went to the Kingdom of Kindness. They studied the letter "K" at school.
This would be the sleeping princess that kept telling me I could only hold her for a minute because she had to get back to her horse. I thought it was an imaginary horse until I laid her down on the couch and went to get the phone. This would be Brinley's horse that I found. It is tied up and waiting for her to get back. Poor lonesome horse.

I asked Lincoln to take a picture of the lake at the park across from our house.

Apparantly he felt that he also needed to be in the picture.
This is the lake from the rain, it's about 2-3 feet deep. Brinley wanted to put her swim suit on and head over.

This is Brinley in her brand new cowboy boots that she got for Christmas. She's running like she has the best idea ever.
This is Brinley after running in the water in her new boots and pants. Lincoln took the picture and I kind of think that her best idea ever came from her brother.

Someone snuck my camera and took these pictures!
Do you know who it was?

Flowers and stuff

These are some of the flowers that are blooming out in our front yard. They are super bright and pretty. It's so fun to see all the different kinds of flowers, bushes and trees that are around here.

This is after the first of a few rain storms that will be coming through this week. There are little ponds everywhere. I'm so glad that they planned well for the rain, no worries about flooding. This is a basketball park across from my house.
This is a very important picture. This has to do with the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. Soooo true. This side is my backyard with all the rocks and the puney tree with no leaves. We hung a hummingbird feeder on the tree for color. Behind us is a beautiful yard with palm trees and flowering bushes, lots of green grass and of course a swimming pool. I could smell the pool smell when I walked out this morning to take pictures. I would take pictures of their yard from our balcony but there isn't anywhere to hide out there. I guess we can say that the upkeep is pretty simple. We will be getting a new yard in the next couple months and we will actually have some green grass. Yay!