Happy 1st Birthday Mr. Max!

HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY MAX!

For each of our kids' first birthday, we have spaghetti. It's fun to let them get a little messy for a change.

After dinner we went swimming, which Max loves.

Max eating his smash cake. Poor kid was so tired that he ate the cake in slow motion.

San Diego

Alora's first time at on ocean beach. This was the Pacific Beach in San Diego, California.

Noah with Grandma Frye.

Alora and mom watching the waves.

Noah trying to outrun the waves.

The kids burying Jackson.

Alora and dad trying to outrun the waves.

Alora LOVED the beach!

Alora, Emorysn (cousin) and Max playing in the sand.

Emorsyn (cousin) feeding Max the sand.

Our family at Pacific Beach in San Diego, California.

The Shamu show at Sea World.

You could buy a plate of little fish to throw to these guys. Too bad the line was long!

Alora, Noah, and Max checking out the flamingos.

The Pets Show at Sea World. They rescue shelter animals and train them for this amazing show.

One of the performing cats. This cat ran across a high tightrope.

Apparently Bert was hungry and thought Max was lunch.

Alora was super excited to see Elmo. Even though she doesn't even really watch Sesame Street, she does love the Elmo's World segment.

Status of Our New Home

Less than 40 days and we should be able to start moving into our new home in the Estrella Mountain Ranch area of Goodyear, Arizona. We are super excited to get out of our cramped apartment and into something permanent. Below are some pictures of the house taken just two days ago.

Our laundry room. It has five cabinets along the left side of the room and those awesome huge front load washer and dryer will soon be installed.

The upstairs loft (aka kids family room). We have a balcony up there too!

A view of the kitchen looking into the family room. Where the photographer was standing is the large breakfast nook. All that's really left is the tile, granite countertops and stainless steel appliances.

The current view of our house. We don't know for sure what the exact end colors are going to be.

Phoenix Sea Life Aquarium

Happy 4th of July!

Hot Enough To Cook An Egg

You aren't seeing things... Jackson really wanted to see if an egg would cook in this 112 degree heat and it did! If you look close you can see the white part starting to crackle on the left side of the pan. This was only after about 7 minutes in the hot sun. Unfortunately, it got too hot for us waiting on the yolk part to cook that we decided to go back in.

Watch Out! The Fuls Have Arrived!

We are now officially in Goodyear, Arizona. Summer isn't even offically here yet and already it is in the 100 degree temps. While our new home is being built in the Estrella Mountain Ranch area, we are temporarily living in a 1000 sq. foot, 2 bed/2bath apartment. Luckily the complex has a pool and playground so hopefully that will give the kids something to do in the meantime. I hope Jeremy and I don't go insane from the kids in these tight quarters!

It wouldn't be a move if the rental equipment didn't cause problems. We had to get help with our truck in Glen Canyon.

Jeremy demonstrating what a modern-day handcart is.

As for Jeremy's new district, he currently has 12 stores. The closest one is less than 2 minutes away from our apartment now and his furtherest is still closer than his closest one was in Salt Lake. It's definitely going to be nice to drive only a couple of minutes to return our movies and games. Before it took 30 minutes each way!