Last week we took a family vacation to Pinetop, AZ. An obscure little town with not a lot to do except relax and enjoy the outdoors. We had even more fun than we planned on. We filled our time with fishing, swimming, hiking, swimming, bowling, swimming, reading, swimming, movies, swimming and overall just relaxing and spending time together.

I knew with not having any grass that we'd be doing a lot of mud this summer. This little girl is so great at finding mud, puddles of water, anything to make her filthy. She started playing in this big mud puddle left from the boys the day before. Before long, her brothers jumped in to help.

She was so sad when I had to spray her off with the cold hose.

It's a good thing that Grandma lives close and has plenty of grass for all the kiddos. Maybe by next summer we can host a pool party in our own yard.

Kessia really likes the boys' goggles. What a cutie.

Look at that girlish figure!

It was a little cold at first.

I just think she's so adorable.

So I'm finally getting around to Memorial Day weekend. We tried to do a big friends campout, but we must be pretty unpopular because nobody came. So then we told me family they might as well come up. We were really glad they did. I took so many pictures and had a hard time deciding which to post, here's a bunch.

On Saturday when it was just the 5 of us, we decided to hike to a waterfall that I had been to in highschool and never since. Well, we had a beautiful hike up the wrong canyon. I guess we were in Dry Wash canyon and the waterfall was in Allen canyon. So when our family showed up on Monday we all hiked it together. Colby and Haven even came up to do the hike with us. It was a little hard for the kids, but they were all troopers and all made it.

At the top.

Isn't it fun that in preschool you get to "graduate" every year, whether you are actually moving on to kindergarten or not? Parker sure thought so this year. He had a really fun year at Lana Lee's preschool and will miss all of his little buddies there.

Parker was so proud of himself the whole ceremony. He picked to sing the song "Little Bunny Foo Foo". I wasn't surprised that he picked to sing a song about bopping field mice on the head. That sort of a thing would totally appeal to him.

Parker with his teacher.

Steve felt really bad that he got stuck at work and couldn't make the graduation. Grandma Einerson also got stuck in Cresent Junction as couldn't make it. But mom was there.

His little class!