Little bit of this, little bit of that....

Haven't updated in awhile so here's a little bit of what we've been up to..... A couple of months ago my parents and I took the kids to Bullhead city for a night so we could see Russell (he was working there). On our way back we stopped in this little town called Oatman which is inbetween some mountains by Kingman. It's an old mining town and the miners used donkeys to pull their loads and for other things and after the mine closed they just left the donkeys there. Well, all these years later those donkeys have stayed and reproduced in this little valley and so we had to stop and see them.

This was the first one we saw and man was is scary looking

Then we saw it's mama right afterward, can't you see the resemblence?

All of the donkeys are very tame and used to people so you can walk right up to them and feed them carrots or just pet them. Maggie and Lucas loved it.

The little baby ones were so cute, this one couldn't have been more than a few months old.

It's totally a biker town, there were tons of leather wearin', no shower for days, biker dudes and dudettes here. The donkeys could care less, they'll stand in the middle of the road or right next to the store door.


Amongst other things, there was laundry to do and Violet decided to hang out with me while I separated the loads....can you see her?

Maggie got to celebrate her 4 and a half birthday at school since she has a summer birthday. Miss Peggy is so great to remember the summer birthdays. Maggie couldn't stop talking about her candy necklace that her teacher made for her.
My sweet hubby celebrated his 30th birthday last week and honestly was a little depressed to be 30 but we celebrated anyway. There's nothing better than free lunch at Joe's Farmgrill and then free dinner at Joe's Barbeque!

After dinner we had cake and ice cream at home with Russells parents and sister Beth.

Violet's face is priceless, she had no idea what was going on

Good thing he had Maggie to help him blow out all his candles.

The day after Russells birthday was my dad's birthday so most of my family went and ate at Chino Banditos, I thought it was good, just wish it was closer to home. Russ convinced me to ride on his motorcycle with him which was fun for me... my parents and Grandpa? Not so much. They weren't too thrilled about us taking the motorcycle.

You can't tell but here we are cruisin along! It was great.

You can tell how much Violet missed us. She was not a happy girl when we got home but we gave her loves anyway!

Thats what we've been upto.