Arizona Days

This has been such a fun week so far!!! The desert is so amazingly beautiful. I forget. It's monsoon season right now so we are getting rain almost everyday and in the desert you can see it coming in over the valley or pouring down on the mountains in the distance! The best part is you can smell the rain here! I love it. It has to be my favorite smell. There is so much to write about. Some of it will be for a post of it's own so for now...

My brother in law took us out to go horseback riding on Monday! It's one of my all time fave things to do besides go toobing behind a boat! The ride was awesome. The weather was good and the scenery was beautiful. This is Bella and Desi before our ride.

Bella and Destiny again, this time it was right before Desi said "Aunt Mandy, I want off!" So she went back home and we traded her out for...

Cali!!! Bella and Cali rode this horse and it was good until the end when they were both complaining that they were squished in the saddle!

Kensington looking so hip ready to ride her horse.

The mountains are so pretty. Let me just tell you a little about my horse. He likes to be in the lead. He likes to run DOWN hills and UP hills. When he starts to trot the horses behind him like to trot too. He hurt my butt, my legs and my back muscles SOOOO bad. For two days straight! haha Ouchie, my ...

Braelyn was in the second group to go out. I, of course, was in both (hence the soreness). My brother in law, Noah, thought this older group would like to trot, run but Braelyn wasn't so happy about that. She was pretty ready to go home about half way through.

I love this little man! This is Aiden and he's a complete handful. My sister stays so busy with him.

Today, I met my girlfriends at McDonalds. I have known them since kindergarten. I had my first sleepover at Melynda's house (pink shirt) and Gayle and I go way back (borrowing her parents' van without them knowing before we were legally old enough to drive). Oh yeah! Fun times. It was really great to see them for a bit.

A preview of what's to come... Friday we are going out on the lake to do some of this!!! I can not wait. And I even more can not wait (does that even make sense, well it's after midnight so who cares if it does or not) for Saturday when Blake comes into town for five days! He's in for such a culture shock. :) It's a different way of life here. I will blog about it as soon as I get a chance. It's so nice!

More to come...