Work, School and a Little Outdoor Fun

Well, Brett has really been enjoying being a dentist and bringing home a paycheck...we enjoy it too:) He has been working 3 days a week here in Payson and two days a week in Mesa. It probably won't be much longer until he is here in the Payson office full-time, but until then he has actually had fun working on some familiar faces down in Mesa. Just the other day he got to do some fillings and a "Princess" crown as she calls it for our friend's daughter, Carsyn. She did such a great job for being a 4 year old at the dentist. I'm glad her mom took a pic of Carsyn and Brett.

Brett is seriously in love with this little Payson town. Most mornings he goes out glassing (which I recently learned is scoping out deer/elk with binoculars). I'm not sure what the thrill is or why you would get up super early to do it, but hey everyone has that thing they love and would do anytime of the day...mine would be working out. The other morning he almost stepped on a snake, but luckily it didn't have a rattler...thank goodness. I decided he needs to start leaving me a note of when and where he is headed off to just in case I need to send a search and rescue team after him.

Bradock and Raylee just finsished up their first two weeks of preschool. They both are loving it! They have made some fun new friends and worked on some cool projects at school. I am really enjoying my couple of hours of alone time. I might actually start subbing at the gyms here or find something else to fill my time, but for now it's awesome.

We have also been enjoying our weekly family adventures. So, the other day we decided to find a new place called Ellison Waterfalls with our friends, the Youngs. We all squished in my car and headed out on quite the little adventure. Brett decided to take a new road (bumpy dirt road is more like it) to a place where we could get out and hike in. Well, we ended up at a no-trespassing personal property area and Brett and Tyler thought it would be fine to hop the barbwire fence and hike on in. Mind you there are 9 of us, 5 of them ranging from the ages 10 weeks old to 5 years old. The guys and the kids went on ahead of Cami, the baby and I to see if they could locate the spot. As Cami and I are walking down this hill area we hear Brett and Tyler yelling for us to hide. We had no idea what was going on, but we started booking it up the side of this mountain into the coverage of some trees. We huddled ourselves down and soon our kids and hubbies were hiding with us. That's when we heard the four-wheeler. Apparently, the owners of the property chose that moment to come and show-off their property to someone. We stayed huddled until we heard the four-wheeler take off and knew it was a good distance away. I seriously felt like a teenager again...trying to hide so I wouldn't get in trouble...so silly, but really funny at the same time. We hiked back to our car and went home.

Since, we weren't able to locate the waterfall Brett and I decided to try and locate the area again the next evening with our kids and our dog, Maggie. No worries though, we took a different route that was completely legal to hike. We found the awesome waterfall and the kids had so much fun hiking and climbing the big rocks. Who knew this outdoors stuff could be so fun! I'm still not into camping overnight, but I am loving our hikes and adventures.

This last weekend we headed down to Mesa for my cousin, Jake's wedding. Rachel and I did some much needed retail therapy that day...I sure missed my Scottsdale Fashion Square mall! Brett, the kids and I headed to the wedding reception that night. The next day was my mom's side of the family's reunion in Show Low, so her and my dad took my kids from us at the reception, so they could go to the reuntion with them. Brett and I headed back home after the reception and spent Saturday garage selling, hiking and having a fun night out. We ended up seeing the movie "Stupid, Crazy, Love" Saturday night and enjoyed a nice quiet time at church on Sunday. My mom and dad brought the kids home Sunday afternoon. They had so much fun with Grandma and Papa. My mom said they just played and played at the reunion and were utterly exhausting by the end of the day. Maybe next year we will have to join them, but it was kind of nice to have a little time apart.