The cool mountain air

Okay - these took FOREVER to get posted, but better late than never, I suppose!

On July 3rd we and our beloved friends, the Swope family, used the holiday to play in Flagstaff and escape the incessant heat of Phoenix!

Our first stop was the park to let the kiddos burn off the steam of being strapped into the car for almost two hours:



Check out Lauren's "swinging face":



LOL! Paige was loving all the climbers this day and was happy to go up the steps and down the slide about a hundred times!



Lauren and Porter waited very patiently for a turn on this bouncy-seat dinosaur while three big kids played on it. When it was said that these tyrants, er- children were not going to be done with their turn any time soon... here was the result:



But, she was easily distracted with the phrase, "Let's go play in the woods!" The woods being a small section of trees just south of the play area which was for BBQ's and picnics.

Harper is already quite the outdoors-man!



And Paige did her fair share of romping in the rough...



A building a rock tower -



I was pretty impressed. ;)

After lunch we headed up the mountain to go for a little walk. It was just beautiful!



There were ladybugs, so Lauren was in heaven!!!



Here we go out on our little "walk":



Did you notice the dark gray sky looming above us? Nah, we didn't either!



Well, after a few minutes of playing in this field, we got drenched! It started out as a little harmless hail, but quickly turned to sudden bursts of downpour!!! We hid under a tree for a while, since the car was quite a jaunt away - but after we realized we were getting wet anyway, we decided to make a run for it. R.U.N. At like 8500 feet... riiiiiiight. I think my lungs are still burning 10 days later. :)

But, it was an adventure! And we dried off in our cars and were none worse for the wear!



It was an all around fabulous day in my book!