Life is what you make it....: Travel

Let's see, it's August 1ST and July just flew by. The kids start school in 11 days. I think we are ready. Think being the key word here.

So 4TH of July was spent in Strawberry. We drove down to Payson to watch the fireworks. Parked where we thought would be a good spot...Apparently so did quite a few other people. We had a car load of "older folks" who must have all had a hearing problem. They talked so loudly and didn't quiet down the entire time they were there. I think we finally got used to it somewhat. The fireworks were pretty cool and lasted quite a while compared to the ones at home. I really enjoyed it. The photos however where not anything to brag about. I left my camera at the house so the pics I got were with my cell phone and my little sony.

Hence...

0704092109c by you.

The kids had fun hanging out at the house catching bugs and Steve relaxed a little & read a book. I had fun snapping pictures of the them and the things going on in the yard. :)

IMG_5485 by you. IMG_5518 by you. IMG_5482 by you. IMG_5517 by you. IMG_5451 by you. IMG_5445 by you. IMG_5470 by you. IMG_5508 by you.

The following weekend Steve and I had plans to go to San Fransisco but plans are always changing shall we say...Instead we took a drive to Flagstaff, Sedona, Happy Jack, Camp Verde, and back down to Strawberry. I got to take a lot of very cool photos until my battery died... The photos below were taken by Lake Mary on the way to Flagstaff through Happy Jack.

IMG_5824 by you. IMG_5832 by you. IMG_5843 by you. IMG_5815 by you. IMG_5876 by you.

The photos here are just out side of Flagstaff at a farm I love to photograph. I got a couple of shots and then my battery died. So no pics of the farm as a whole. :(

IMG_5881 by you. IMG_5892 by you. IMG_5897 by you. IMG_5893 by you. IMG_5896 by you.

About the dogone battery, thought I left it at home still plugged into the wall charging, but the next morning when we were packing up to leave I remembered that it was in my smaller camera case. That really sucked! I didn't get any photos when we were in Sedona or any other place we went that day. :( BUT, when I did put the other battery in, I was sooooo glad I did. Because we saw these 2 gorgeous animals on the way out of our neighborhood heading back down to the Valley.

IMG_5902 by you. IMG_5916 by you. IMG_5915 by you. IMG_5924 by you. IMG_5938 by you. IMG_5980 by you.

Don't you just love the "smile" in the last photo? I am guessing these are the bad boys that keep eating the plums off of the tree in our yard every time they are just about ripe for the picking. This year we had a pretty bad freeze right after the trees had bloomed and they didn't produce any fruit. So I suspect the elk have resorted to raiding the bird feeders in the neighborhood to make up for not having any fruit to steal.

Scrapbooking has fit in some too. My sister and I went to the house last weekend and spent the whole weekend making an album for her latest trip and I got 8 pages done for a book I am working on about my school years K-12. I have up to 8th grade done. Kindergarten and the title page can be found here and here. It's very simple but to the point. A photo and a little journaling box to put down what I remember about that year in school. I have also been trying to make atleast one page from each of the Studio Calico kits that seemed to be stacking up like crazy.

Christmas Party 08 with Mom & Tonia copy by you. T & L copy by you. Proud of you copy by you. I love hiking w U copy by you. Sharon Lynn Butler June 1960 copy by you. Tropical Hawaii by you. Beautiful Butterfly by you.