San Diego – Escaping the Heat

School starts back up this week, and the temperature in Phoenix was anticipated to be 115+ this weekend. Since this summer has been a little rough on the kids, combined with the fact that my boss made me take some days off and San Diego was 20+ degrees cooler, we decided to drive over to…

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A day at the lake

It’s Tuesday, so we decided to take the day and head up to the lake for some fun in the sun on the lake. We left by 6:45am to have time to grab breakfast and make the drive up to Lake Pleasant. We rented a pontoon boat from Scorpion Bay Marina (sounds very Arizona) and…

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Can’t Beat this Sunshine

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Another day at home with the family. Today, I started the kids out with reading. They decided they wanted to lay by the pool and enjoy the sunshine and the breeze. Vi decided to put her feet in the pool. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”7842″ img_size=”800″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_rounded”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] After Hayden got through with two books, it was…

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No More Trees

Our neighbors cut down all 4 sissoo trees from their backyard! It took an entire day for the people to chop them down. It was crazy loud, and as of today, I’m not sure how I feel about it. First take a look at a SMALL PORTION of the mess we had to clean up…

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All the changes and updates.

It’s official. School is closed for the rest of the school year. Emergency schooling has begun at home (different from “homeschooling” and supposedly even a little different from “distance learning”). What it means to us is that we just have to do our best to make our kids get through as many assignments as possible…

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