Shooting with the Nunez's

We have been out shooting with friends a few times since we have been living here. This particular day we went out with Evie, Luis and their family. We knew the kids would have fun doing it so we got them a gun. They are naturals.
























































Haha! I make myself laugh. I have a lot of practicing to do.

Still enjoying Christmas break

While the kids were still out of school and my Parents were still in town we just played and played. We went to our Community Rec center and played tennis and we have been swimming there a TON. We have an indoor pool and an outdoor pool. So far the pool has not been busy at all. 95% of the time we are the only ones there. It's like having our very own indoor pool, so cool!














































We have been checking out all of the local lakes. They are all within a 20 minute drive. And they are all so pretty. My favorite lake is Lynx Lake. It is so beautiful. We spent a couple of hours walking around and skipping rocks. I can't wait to go play there all summer long.



























I have an Aunt that lives in Sun City which is only about an hour and a half away from us. Since none of us have ever been there we decided to make a day of it and go visit her. First of all we had to stop at the outlets in Anthem.





























The only thing we bought was a BUNCH of clothes for the kids. What's up with that? I'm definitely going back for myself.
The next stop was Aunt Diane's house....
She has a beautiful yard that we loved so much. They let us pick all the oranges and limes we wanted. We wanted A LOT!!


















After hanging out at the house for a while Chuck and Diane wanted to show us their club house. The kids hopped into the golf cart with Chuck and we all met up at the golf course.
The kids couldn't believe it when they saw the grass. It was REAL grass. They played and rolled around on it for quite some time. I'm sure everyone thought we were crazy but we have really missed grass. Everything around here, even the soccer fields are turf.




















On our way home from Aunt Diane's house we promised the kids we would do a picnic. We stopped and got some food and went to a park across the street from the outlets in Anthem. It is the most amazing park. I wish we lived closer to it. I think we would go there everyday!










And then it was time for my parents to leave. We were all sad and a few tears were shed but we knew they wouldn't stay away for too long.

During our break we also went hiking with our good friends the Nunez's. This is a beautiful hike and the weather was amazing!!























































We really enjoyed our Christmas break! It was really hard to send the kids back to school when the weather was so nice. I thought I was going to miss the snow at Christmas time, but I DID NOT!! I love the weather here.
If anybody wants to come visit us, please do! We have lot's of fun!!

Merry Christmas!

We had a lot of fun this Christmas. It was definitely different then in the years past. But it was a good different.
I made 40 caramel apples for Tyler's work, friends and for ourselves. They were so good!!










Then we had a little Christmas party at our house a couple of days before Christmas. We invited all of our friends and of course my family and had a blast!
Tyler just had to where the singing Christmas tree.










My Grandma, Parents and Brother came a couple of days before Christmas. We shopped, ate, shopped and ate some more. Then it was Christmas Eve.









































































Of course we needed a picture in all of our new Jammie's.









I requested a silly face picture......some people forgot to make a face. I won't mention names.









Christmas morning. Looks like we all got spoiled....AGAIN!



























































































Shayna got a pedicure set for Christmas. She was giving everybody a pedicure and made tons of money doing it. This is the one and only pedicure Britton has had. He is WAY to ticklish.


















The kids made home made gifts for everyone again this year. When the kids called Grandpa to see what he wanted for Christmas he told them he wanted his two front teeth. So that's what he got. Haha!









And since I love this picture so much, and I know Dad does too. we made him a copy and put it inside his home made picture frame.









We had a great Christmas this year. It was hard to be away from our extended family members for Christmas Eve but we made do. And it turned out to be a very fun relaxing Christmas. I'm excited to see where we will be in another year!