New Room

The jungle animal wall hangings.

Farm animals.

I finally got around to painting Autumn's room. It was Rachel's old room and I hadn't painted since she moved into Kyle's room 2yrs ago and it was jumbled with every ones left over room decor. Yellow paint and brown curtains. But we painted it a couple of weeks ago and added a tree on the wall. Autumn loves the tree and says "my tree". The girls helped make wall hangings which I had seen on Martha Stewart, but the lady who makes them charges $140 each. We made 8 for $20. I am in the process of making her quilt, hopefully get started sewing today the blocks are cut, they are from Autumn's baby receiving blankets. I just hated to get rid of them they were so cute and didn't know if anyone would want hand me down blankets. Hopefully turns out okay. When Karen gets her room clean and her bed made I will post pics of her room which we finally finished! Her and Jack made a nice bookshelf.

Nice day to fly a kite.

We went to the Japanese Festival at Margret Hance Park. Autumn made a kite and yesterday was a perfect day to fly it. We also had her sponge bob kite which Jack put on a fishing rod so it went really high.

It was a pretty warm day while we were at the festival and Autumn was disappointed that the sand and slide were too hot to play.So we went to the Phoenix Central Library and she took her shoes off and went jumping from one air vent to the next, it was nice and cool on her feet. The air vents are in the floor.

April Fools

We were getting Autumn to tell April Fools jokes and she was having fun doing it. After she would say "April Fools" we would all 'laugh' and then she would hug all of us. She would make sure we laughed too! When I first told her to tell Jack a joke and then say "April Fools, joking" she did asking him if he wanted a bite of her 'candy bar' then she told him a 'joke'. Her favorite one is why did the gum cross the road? It was stuck to the chicken's foot. She made up the joke in the video, "why did the poop cross the road? It was stuck to the chicken man foot." Nice!

Rodeo!

David had a Rodeo and we went to watch him. Autumn immediately wanted to ride the horses. She got right on with David and he took her for a ride. She seemed quite comfortable on the horse.

Grandpa Phil was also here and went with to the rodeo too. Autumn had fun getting to know him, he had only seen her once before when she was a baby.

Getting up to date.

At Enchanted Island in Encanto Park. Autumn on the bumper boats. She had fun doing the rides by herself.

Rachel and Karen never miss a chance to do a photo shoot. They don't remember going to Enchanted Island when they were little but we did take them.

I guess it's been awhile since my last post. Autumn keeps me busy and we have had a busy month. I haven't been to work in a few weeks, waiting for them to find us some new clients. Rachel started working at Quik Trip and has already put in her first week. Kyle had springbreak in Daytona Beach again this year and has been dealing with the same cold weather in Des Moines that he always does.He also started playing games, some of them they put on GrandView radio, if I can ever find them. Karen has just been busy doing school work. We have had some nice visits with family from out of town! In 3wks Jack, me and Autumn go to Des Moines for Kyle's graduation. Rachel has prom coming up and graduates May 25. She is hoping to go to ASU after graduating, we sent in financial so we will see what they can do. Kyle is looking to move back to AZ in June.Looks like we have a busy couple of months ahead . . At the Wild Life World Zoo with cousins.

At the Phx Zoo thanks to culture passes again! Autumn got into my lipstick. She does pretty good applying it so had to put up this picture. Cover Girl will be glad to know that it doesn't wear off!

At the Museum of Natural History, also culture pass! Autumn had fun panning for gold and climbing through the logs. She had fun there! It's a kids hands on place. She was so tired after we left that she fell asleep while eating an icecream cone.