Swimming at Legacy

A couple of Saturday's ago we got to go swimming out at Legacy Ranch.  Bridget was at work so she couldn't come and Dustin brought Jaylen along.

 The water was way too cold for me. I only braved laying on a tube.

 We played 9 square which is a really fun game!

 The kayak was a hit but we were afraid it was going to get sunk with all the kids on it!

 Oh Tylinn.  It was a great day!

Tylinn is 13!!

This beautiful girl turned 13!  Now we have 4 teenagers at this house!  AHHHH!  It's a good thing teenagers are so much fun!

 Poor Tylinn had to babysit on her birthday, which she was perfectly fine with but I was planning on helping lots with things and I woke up that morning throwing up!  I haven't thrown up for years and years.  Some how I managed to make Crepes like she wanted and Bruce cooked them.

 She got to start wearing make up! Mascara is the only thing she wants to wear right now.

 We got a slip and slide a couple weeks ago at Sams Club and they talked their dad into setting it up for them to play on for her birthday.

 Rhett even joined in on the fun!

 Tylinn was so sweet - because I was throwing up I obviously couldn't go to dinner that night so she decided they would stay home and eat hotdogs and go to dinner a night after I felt better.

 She said she didn't care what kind of a cake she got so we did an icecream sandwich cake for her.  Thankfully Rhett and Bridget made it for her!

 Tylinn is a special sweet girl that has a little laugh about everything.  She didn't complain one time that day about anything not being good on her birthday.  She got a pair of converse shoes and the can jam game.  We love you Tylinn!

So a few days later we celebrated with dinner for Tylinn's birthday at Wild Women's It was a tasty meal!

 Tylinn loved her club sandwich with sweet potato waffle frys, Bruce's hamburger, and my buffalo wing salad!

Baby Sitting

A couple of weeks ago there were about 10 families in town that went to Mexico.  That meant the kids who usually babysit these little kids weren't in town to do it so Tylinn and Kaylee got to babysit Emmery and Carter.  It was a super fun week having them. To make it all even better they got paid quite a bit.  They would still get up every morning and water at Bro. Crandells house then hurry home to baby sit all day.  

Bridget All Stars

Bridget made it All Stars for Volleyball.  She was so excited to get to go.  The other girl that got selected from Mogollon didn't go so it was just her.  On the schedule there were lots of team bonding things and enough to keep them busy from Friday at 1 until their game Saturday at 1. There were supposed to be 4 teams but after the people that responded and said they were going there was only enough for 3 teams.  Well after all that just didn't show up there was only 2 teams. Bridget texted me after their first practice and said a bunch of girls are at the mall and with their parents and she was just in her motel room doing nothing.  We had gone with Holli out to Les's house to swim so we were an hour away from where Bridget was.  So she just sat in her motel room watching TV.  They didn't do hardly anything that was on the schedule.  So Saturday - game day.  Bridget went as a Labero and because they were short teams their team had 2.  Their coach told the other girl you will play the first match and Bridget you will play the second and so on.  Well the other team beat our team in 3 so they only played 3 matches.  The way it worked out Bridget only played 1 match.  Pretty lame but whatever. 

 After it was over the teams wanted to play another match for fun but Bridget's coach said "no lets go home" so they ended it and went home.  Bridget is glad she went because she would have regretted not going but it was a big let down.   The past few years it has been at EA and it has been really good from what we have heard but unfortunately this year it was a joke!

The positive about the trip is the girls and I got to spend Saturday night with Grandma and taking care of her.  

NAU Orientation

The girls and I made a trip to Flagstaff for Orientation for Bridget.  She got all checked in and ready to go.

 Tylinn and Kaylee both won a $100 gift certificate to Walmart from Golden Mustang.  So while we were waiting to check into our motel we went shopping.  They LOVED it!!

 And of course had to get pictures by the Lumber Jack.  We found a few NAU shirts at Walmart!

It was a fun trip but crazy this is really happening.  We got to see her apartment and meet one of her roommates.  It made me feel  alot better seeing she won't be living on campus but right next to campus.  I felt pretty good about things when we left but it is still going to be hard!\ to let her go!