Lake Day

TUESDAY OF SPRING BREAK

Kayaking at Canyon Lake

I told the Clarks, who were visiting from beautiful Colorado, to have an "open mind" as to what beautiful was as we headed to our desert lake. ha ha. But guess what, it really was.

Look how cute Sophie was helping bring in the boats.

Great Day.

Hospital Tour

MONDAY OF SPRING BREAK

Since the Clarks knew us when we were in Vet School...

the next thing on the agenda for their Spring Break Arizona visit was a tour of Bruce's hospital.

Dr. Vernon (my husband) and Dr. Jennings (my cousin who works for Bruce) gave us the tour. They are so funny. I told Bruce not to be LAME on the tour, but to make it like an official tour. ha ha, it was awesome.

Dr. V is showing us gross stuff he has in formaldehyde jars... like worms he's gotten out of dogs, body parts, etc...

Passing around the goods...

Eyeball.

Bruce took us in to the surgery room and did an ultrasound on Logan, ha ha. He even identified some of his inner organs.

Dr. J showed us some interesting X-Rays, like crazy stuff inside dogs tummies that had to be surgically removed.

(Doctor in Training)

Overall... Bruce and Casey's tour got an A+.

They are so funny, I'm jealous of that work environment, you know they have a good time. Casey graduated from Vet School at CSU last May, so he's worked for Bruce for almost a year. (I posted pics on my blog of his graduation last May, that we flew to Colorado for and stayed at the Clarks house!) He's a great Doctor.

After the tour we took them to Joe's BBQ (of course)...

then to Freestone Park for some good ol' Arizona "Summer Sledding"

...even though we have awesome "summer sleds", Logan had to try it out in Sophie's stroller. ha ha.

Then Monday night we took them for a Laser Tag challenge:

CLARK FAMILY VS VERNON FAMILY

Guess who won???

The Clarks.

Trailer Park Reunion

SUNDAY OF SPRING BREAK

Once upon a time we lived in a trailer in Colorado, and I loved it. We were students in Vet School... and had lots of great friends around us in trailers too. And Jen was my BFF (and Christine and Lari). Then we graduated and moved here... and I left my BFF Jen, and I cried.

Then after 13 years... the Clark family FINALLY came to stay with us for Spring Break. We planned a great agenda, and had a grand time with them. (They were here with us before everything happened with my mom)

We ♥ The Clarks

Since they were coming all the way from Colorado... we had a "Trailer Park Reunion" and the Statens came up from Tucson, and the Hunts from Mesa.

Dr. Christine Staten and family:

Dr. Hunt and family:

Dr. Vernon and family:

When us 4 couples moved to Colorado,

we had just these 3 children between us:

While in Colorado, we gave birth to these children (some of us were at each others births of these babies):

When we left Colorado after 4 years, we had this many children between us:

And now, 13 years later... us 4 couples have THIS many children, WOW:

The kids got along great.

Dallin and Maddie got to sing the long awaited song...

...and the adults hung out all day laughing and chatting,

just like trailer park days.

Times goes too fast... I can't believe how many years its been. Come visit us again!

Family Walks

Building a house 1/4 mile away, means there's always something exciting about a family walk...

...even when it was just a pile of dirt.

Sometimes we stay on that big empty street even after dark.

Then finally last week...

they poured the cement foundation for our new house.

Now the neighbor houses have framing up,

and wednesday they started framing our house too.

Can you see Sophie is jumping for joy?