Our trip to the Tonto Natural Bridge

I wanted to share some pictures that we took this past weekend up in Payson.

Back to School (already?!?!)

Yesterday was Isabella's first day back to school. She is now a 1st grader and she was excited to say the least... Here she is with her new outfit and back pack...

Fun with the camera.

Summertime: San Diego 2009

Chacho's Raceway

Happy Birthday to our little Boy!!

Today is your 3rd birthday and you have grown so much in such little time. We are so very proud of you and lucky to have you in our lives. We love you David... Love mom & dad.

Funny clip...

Video Clears Up Obama Photo

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The Death of Michael Jackson...

I can't believe I didn't post about this the day it happened... Today is a week since the 'King of Pop' died, the same day that Farrah Fawcett died of cancer and the day after Ed McMahon. Needless to say last week wasn't a good week. I just wanted to post this video that Matt Lauer had with Jermaine Jackson... Just heart wrenching to listen to him speak about his brother... What a loss for the entire world...

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This happened right outside of my work today... Very very sad

Man electrocuted while working with dad at construction site



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The Stranger

Thanks to Michelle for helping me film this one!

Oh and we can't forget Isabella. The star of the film!

Promotion Day

Today was Isabella's 'Promotion' day, she is no longer in Kindergarten and is now offically a 1st grader (at the end of July when school starts again). Her first summer vacation starts tomorrow... my advice... enjoy every moment of your school years. Once you are out, you'll want to go back! =)

Here is the school Principle for the current year. It will be changing next year.

And here is our little Bella accepting her promotion diploma.

And here they are singing a song about going to 1st grade. That was too cute! Brought a tear to my eye. =)

Isabella's graduation photo...

Here is Isabella in her cap & gown. She will be in 1st grade this fall. How far she has come!! We couldn't be more proud of her.

A little taste of the wedding photos..

I think I'm going to remove the slide show and just post a few of my favorite pictures. =)

This is Jayme, her maid of honor on the left and her bridesmaids.

HAPPY 6TH BIRTHDAY ISABELLA!!!

A very special birthday wish to our Beautiful Isabella...   We hope you have a wonderful birthday!!  

Here is Bella enjoying a donut in her classroom this morning.  I surprised her by bringing Dunkin Donuts, milk and balloons to her class this morning.   Of course she loved the attention!!  ;o)    

We are extremely grateful to have her in our lives and we will be celebrating 4 years of NED status on May 2nd!!!    Soon we will be officially in Remission!!!   Way to go Bella, you are awesome and we love you!!!

Bella as a Flower Girl

Here is our miss Bella as a Flower girl for Edgar's wedding.   I will post more soon so keep checking back!  =)

Edgar's Bachelor Weekend

Here is a video from David's weekend out with the boys... David edited this video and added the song... I think we need to move back to California and have him go work in Hollywood!! =)

Cute Books

While we were in Prescott, a little day trip out of Jerome, we found this cute little shop called Trinkets.  They had the cutest stuff in their store and it had me in there looking around for quite a while.  The kids were sitting quietly at a cute little table just big enough for their little tooshies.    We continued to walk around the little shops that were in this area called Bashford Courts Mall,  a small 3 story shopping area inside a building.  You wouldn't have even known it was there if you continued walking down the street.   We went through all the stores finding something cute in each one of them.  After we were done looking around we decided to sit and grab a snack at the Prescott Brewing Company before dinner at The Asylum back in Jerome.  While I was sitting there enjoying our pretzels, I decided...  what the heck!   I am going back to that store to get that book I saw for the kids.   So when we were done we headed back there and I picked up this book, The Tickle Monster.  It is such a cute book and the kids really enjoy the tickling they receive while we read it together.   Then my mom picked up the other two books for the kids; Illustrated Stories for Girls and Boys.  The book has like 20 little stories in it perfect for little boys who love Pirates and Robots and the other has Princesses and Fairies.   And of course who could pass up the little stickers that you can put in the inside of the book with their name on it...   Love that store!  I gotta go back and pick up the gloves that I totally missed!     Watch the video on this site when it first comes up to see what I mean...   http://www.josiebissett.com/

The Connor Hotel

We went up to Jerome for a few days this past week.   I've posted about the Jerome Grand Hotel before and it's haunted history.   This time we didn't stay there, we stayed in the Connor Hotel, right in the middle of everything.  The room was great!   I would recommend this hotel to anyone who wants to go and stay at a decent place.  It's within walking distance to everything you would want to see and the room we stayed in (room 2) was VERY spacious.   The ONLY downside is...  Room 2 is over their 'Spirit Room', the ever famous biker bar below the guest rooms.  If you want to stay up and party all night with the guests in the bar, this is a perfect room for you.  But if you are traveling with kids and usually go to sleep by 10 or 11...  don't plan on getting a good nights sleep in this room.   Here are a couple pictures of the room we stayed in...

Jim Cramer on The Daily Show

Not sure if anyone watches The Daily Show or even knew about the duel between Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer, but here are the Unedited Videos from the show that aired Thursday night.  Very interesting to say the least...   =)

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

Jim Cramer Unedited Interview Pt. 1

Daily Show Full Episodes
Important Things w/ Demetri Martin

Political Humor
Jim Cramer

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

Jim Cramer Unedited Interview Pt. 2

Daily Show Full Episodes
Important Things w/ Demetri Martin

Political Humor
Jim Cramer

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

Jim Cramer Unedited Interview Pt. 3

Daily Show Full Episodes
Important Things w/ Demetri Martin

Political Humor
Jim Cramer

A fun day at the lake

Here are some pictures of our day at the lake... it started out kind of rough though. When we launched the boat there were white caps on the water. For all you land lovers that means the winds were high enough to make the tips of the water crest. But the winds died down and it turned out to be a pretty fun day on the water.

Stopped in my tracks....

Typical evening of Internet browsing...  go online to YouTube to find the Fun in the Snow video you see below.  I found the link to embed on our MySpace profile, put it on my page and saved it.  I went to my home page in MySpace and saw that my sister had uploaded some new pictures.  I went on to view her pictures and saw some thing I hadn't seen in almost 5 years....

my dad

He passed away almost 5 years ago and I still haven't dealt with his death.  I lived away from him and since I didn't see him every day it was easy to block it out of my mind.  But seeing this picture brought back all of those feelings I have suppressed for the last 4 1/2 years.   I miss him so very much and it pains me to think that Isabella won't know him.  I don't have any pictures around my house, I took this picture from my sister's MySpace, so I asked my sister to send me what ever she may have so Isabella can get to know her grandpa. 

Jerome - The Haunted Hotel

Another very creative Video by David Ugarte... He's got quite a talent!!