Freebies on your birthday!

Don't you love getting things for free? I do. It is lots of fun when you can get it on your birthday too! I mentioned before about a blog I love - Freebies4 Mom. Well - as part of that blog they have a list of places that give you free stuff for you birthday. So - if you have a birthday coming up soon - or someone in your family does - check this site out http://freebies4mom.blogspot.com/search/label/birthdays and sign up today! Yea for birthdays!

Plumber anyone?

The kitchen sink had been leaking down the hose on the faucet (all in one faucet/sprayer).

It has a lifetime warranty for parts - so we ordered parts and they came today. Doug went to replace them - and they didn't send all that we needed and what they did send - wouldn't work.

His 1/2 - to hour job kept going - going- and going. He finally went and bought a new faucet. Things didn't get any better - he can't get the old one out of there and well - some other problems. He finally gave up about 10 pm. So - no water in my kitchen.

Anyone know a good plumber to call on Monday?

It's My Turn!!

Carson and EmmaLee are learning to be good friends - but they are also learning to fight over toys. Let me tell you - EmmaLee doesn't back down from Carson - she gives it right back, even if she is 6 months younger!

First - EmmaLee got on the little truck to ride - then Carson got her off if it and climbed on. She wasn't taking that from him and started pushing and pulling on his shirt.

That didn't work - so she decided to get on it anyway - she wanted a ride!
Carson wasn't happy with that and got really upset - so Matt is comforting him. EmmaLee got what she wanted - the truck to ride!
Another thing she loves - phones and remotes. She'll carry them around everywhere!

Having Fun with Uncle Vaughn

Vaughn is so good with kids - he can keep them entertained and make them laugh!

Here he is playing with EmmaLee

Has both kids involved now!

Bye Vaughn - come back again - longer next time!

Good-bye to Grandma

Good-bye Grandma! We loved having you and can hardly wait to have you come down for a longer visit!

This is about as long as we could get Carson to sit still with Grandma! He just wants to go-go-go!

He did keep Grandma entertained though!
What would the visit be without Princess? She just took over my spot on the sectional - would sleep there most of the day.

1st Doug Alldredge Reunion

Clear back in July - in fact - July 4th weekend - we all went camping. On Sunday, we had all of our kids there and had a great time and a fabulous dutch oven dinner. We decided it was officially our 1st Doug Alldredge Family Reunion. Here are a lot of pictures. Enjoy!

Here's Kendall working on the buggy. We just got it for the kids to ride. We are still deciding whether to keep it or not. It's fun - but not as fun as the other toys to drive.

Doug as the big fisherman - catching the biggest fish!

Jeremy, Jo and EmmaLee getting ready for a ride.
Carson loved being outdoors. He was dirty all of the time.
Dani helping out with the trench - well sort of anyway!
This is us all loaded down to go home. Notice all the toys? It was a heavy load! The other vehicle had to pull the boat.


They were having a fun time visiting - but seemed to stop when I went to take the picture!

Jeremy brought up the hammocks he got in Venezuela. It was a hit!


This is Jason- hiding behind the helmet. All the boys LOVED the dirt bike. Jeremy even rode it after wrecking on it - going to urgent care - getting a boot to wear. The dirt bike was never idle long!
Helping fix dinner.
The chef - and a good one!
No - he really didn't ride it by himself!
So - there you have it. I have lots more pictures and it was hard to decide which ones to post.

Jo posted more pictures on her photography blog and Mikel has some on her blog. You could check those out too! (of course - they posted those in July, just after the trip!)

We are probably going camping again Labor Day Weekend. I sure hope so. It is so much fun - and lots cooler than Mesa!

We Love our Diamondbacks!

Just in case some of you out there might not know - our family are all huge sport fans - most of us especially like to watch baseball - and our favorite major league team - the Diamondbacks of course! We haven't been able to attend many games this year - too busy of a family. However, we did finally take all the kids the week before school started. It was a lot of fun.

Here are Carson and Kristi all dressed out in their Diamondbacks colors and clothes! By the way - Carson loves to watch baseball and is starting to throw and even bat. Imgaine that in this family!

Kris and Mikel came along too. (The only one not here - Matt - who couldn't move around much at the time with his bum ankle. We missed him!)
Kendall brought Marie along to join in the fun.
Dani just hanging out. She if finally beginning to like a few sports! Can you believe someone in our family not enjoying watching or playing sports? We are trying to convert her.
Jason wasn't too excited about coming. He was more into reading a new book he had just got and couldn't leave it hom-which is surprising because he usually loves watching baseball. The week of August 18th - Mom and Vaughn came to spend with us. Vaughn had the week off (can you believe he actually took some time off?) - and they chose to drive down and visit us. We were so excited to have them here. We took Mom and Vaughn to a game. Vaughn had never been to a major league game before - and only to 1 professional sports game - back in the late 1970's to a Jazz/Sonics pre-season game. He seemed to really enjoy the baseball game.
Here we are after the game. Mom was so sure the D-backs wouldn't win. We got there in the 1st inning with them behind 4-0 - but we won and it was pretty exciting.
Mikel, Kris and Dani came too - but they were in the upper deck. Check out Mikel's blog for more pictures!