Vacation 2013

We went up to Pinetop 2 weeks in a row for 4 days each this year.
It was really nice to spend time with Coco, Kyle, Talmage, Naima and Kylia. 

And enjoy the beautiful area that I miss so much. 

E'lyse, Faith and Gabby had gone up to Snowflake with the Young Women in our ward to do Baptisms for the dead early Friday morning. 

Before we left I took a picture of Nellie. She is not found of me leaving her. 

 We loaded up and headed out a bit before 6 am Saturday morning just Alan and I . 

It started to rain. LOVED IT!!

 Almost into Superior 

Snap the rain stopped but the sky was pretty.

Alan wanted to visit Seneca Lake. 

It use to be a popular camping spot but not so much anymore.

I thought it was really pretty though. 

 The dock

Another view 

 and another 

and another across the lake 

 This is some of the old buildings that use to be a flourishing business here but since closed down. 

I like old buildings. 

This is driving through Salt River Canyon

 Another view of a cool mountain. 

Long story short. Coco & Kyle had a bet on when we would actually leave. So we didn't let them know for sure when we headed out. We wanted to surprise them. It turns out Coco needed to go pick up the girls from the Snowflake Temple. So we met up with Coco and I went with her to get them. 

Coco being silly as we wait.

 Here we are at the Snowflake Temple

Coco, Me, 

Faith, E'lyse holding Kylia and Gabby 

Gabby being silly 

 Gabby and 2 of her friends (sorry I don't know their names.)

Moroni on the top of the Temple with a beautiful sky behind him.

 On our way back we went to look at some property and we spotted this back yard garden.

I love gardens and I love raised beds so of course I had to take a picture. 

The old Shumway Schoolhouse 

 This is Cali she is a cat that is suppose to live outside but tends to find her way indoors. 

Storm moving in and making me smile!!

We did this a lot. Sitting on the porch, watching the storms roll in and rocking. 

 Naima being cute 

Naima and Cali 

 Pretty Petunia 

Talmage, Naima and I went out on the porch to have lunch one day. 

 Kyle playing baseball

Talmage and little Smokey the cat

 Naima and a flower she picked

E'lyse playing ball with Coco

 Coco and E'lyse 

Smokey chasing bugs in the grass 

Naima racing her bike on the porch

Coco with Talmages pants on her head (don't ask!)

 Coco resting in the grass

 Coco showing her great jumping skills. I was impressed. 

Talmage with Waffle Ball ears

 Naima and Talmage 

The waffle balls had to be duct taped together and Talmage and Naima requested to have their hands bound 

 Crazy kids 

 And tape on their mouths. Coco was thinking this was great!

 They like playing prisoners. 

Kylia enjoying the porch time with her Mommy

 Naima and Talmage trying to get loose .

Kylia just being cute.

E'lyse with Talmage on her shoulders.

Kylia, Alan and Gabby  ( I love this picture)

A friend of Coco's brought over some clothes for her kiddos and this cute little lady bug costume was in it.
Kylia was not fond of it at all. 

 Gabby was 

Talmage was too

Kylia liked being a fairy better

We were outside and Naima started pulling up the rug on the porch. I asked her what she was doing and she said she was covering her motorcycle. Her Dad (Kyle) has a cover on his too, but a real one. he he Silly girl. 

This is Gabby holding Smokey. We were all quiet fond of this sweet little guy. 

E'lyse helping Kylia walk. 

 Kylia enjoying it outside

Talmage and Kylia sitting with Aunt E'lyse 

 Naima being a cowgirl 

I bought these glasses to get a picture of Kylia in them. 

She refused to leave them on .

Naima 

Talmage

Gabby

Faith 

Even Kyle had them on for a while. 

On Tuesday it was Kylia's 1st Birthday.

Coco got her a cake and she didn't know what to do with it. 

She just kept smiling 

and smiling 

She is so silly, finally Kyle helped her have a little bit. It was the first cake she had ever had. 

Then she enjoyed squishing it in her hands 

And cake makes a great moisturizer. 

After she ate some cake Coco got her cleaned up for present time.

 She loved her gifts

 Started to get the hang of ripping the paper off herself. 

 See

And since I have missed the last few Sundays of getting my girls picture 

I took this one of

Faith, E'lyse and Gabby.

We had a great time. It was hard to leave but, home we went till next time. 

Hugs, Bobbi Jo

My Thoughts Are Going 100 MPH

My thoughts lately have been going 100 mph it is driving me crazy.

I have thought many times that I have ADD ( I am not joking here), due to my problem of jumping from one subject to another when I am talking with someone. And how if I see something sparkly it totally distracts me from what I was talking about. 

I am surprised sometimes that I can function in the public at all especially with my job.

But at my job I get into what they call "Your beingness" , kind of like getting into the zone. 

So I thought what better way than to share some of what is going on in my mind with my bloggy friends. I am so irregular on posting lately that I don't know if too many people even bother anymore but being that this is the closest thing I have to a journal I will post it anyway.

The following list is in no particular order whatsoever

Getting out of debt

Paying off the student loan

Getting rid of things

Organizing

Minimalism in my life 

Work and balance in life

Being a homemaker the job I love, but I love my work

(the whole balance thing is an issue in my mind)

Wanting to live up north

Wanting to downsize the house

Wanting to downsize my van to a small economical car 

Going greener and wasting less

Getting back yard done (AGAIN)

Having a full back garden instead of yard

Menu planning & sticking to it

Running more

 Husbands job

Husbands negativity & effects on us

Me looking like Betty Boop now

Husband not like my hair cut or color

Wanting to change some things but not sure how

How do I get enough sleep but still get things done

So these are just a few of the things that are going through my mind. 

Any input? Anyone out there dealing with this? Feeling frazzled and confused? 

Would love to hear from you.

Hugs, Bobbi Jo 

4 Days On Vacation

For out 4TH of July weekend we went to Pinetop to spend four beautiful days with Coco and her family.

We left on Thursday mid day and headed up. 

I was a lame blogger I didn't take a bunch of pictures of our trip.

Thursday night Coco made some yummy meatball sandwiches for dinner and then about 8:30ish we headed to Show Low to see the fireworks.

I bought glow bracelets and glow flags for the kiddos.

This was going in to find Coco, Kyle and kiddos to watch the show of lights 

E'lyse, Faith and Gabby shower their cute patriotism with USA on the bottom of their shoes 

Love these girls they are so creative and fun

These three are such hams

Naima, E'lyse, Faith, Gabby and Talmage

USA 

Gabby as a sloth 

E'lyse and Kylia 

 E'lyse and Kylia 

Kyle, Coco and Kylia waiting for fireworks to start. 

Kyle, Coco, Naima, Talmage and Kylia

Love this family

Talmage, Kylia and Coco

I was lame and didn't take any pictures of fire works. Sorry!!

Look who is pulling herself up on everything. It won't be long till she is walking on her own. 

She is too cute for her own good. 

Kylia with her glowing flag

Faith looking cute 

Naima in her pumpkin costume for the day

Kylia and Faith 

Kylia being cute

Gabby making faces in her water bottle.

Silly face

 Duck lips

Faith with the bottle 

Tiny face BIG eyes 

 again

Coco with the water bottle being silly 

 scared face 

 kissy face 

 fishy lips

Naima, Kylia and Faith 

Gabby 

Naima being cute and posing 

Faith up close 

 Kylia with squishy face 

Gabby squishy face 

Faith in the mirror 

 Faith and Gabby in the mirror

Coco nibbling on Kylia's thigh& Naima playing on the floor. 

I didn't realize that I had very few pictures of my little buddy Talmage. 

He was off playing ball or playing with his Dad. 

We had a great time being with Cooc, Kyle and their family.

It was a nice get away and always good to see our sweet grand babies. 

Hugs, Bobbi Jo