Earlier in May, Tia Marci came all the way from Fayetteville Arkansas to visit us. Nate and Brack adore Marci and they were super excited to have her with us for a whole week
We had nice warm weather so we busted out the pool and Marci had fun soaking up our dry Arizona sunshine while the boys splashed it up.
Marci has a thing for adorable cowboys and these are 2 of her favorites. She decked them out with some new cowboy gear but they had to promise to be good, if they had any fits the new boots, spurs, and hats would disapear. They were pretty good about keeping their promise. Bracken loved his boot so much he slept in them, napped in them and wore his boots for 3 days straight.
Our little Marco took a while to warm up to Tia Marci. For the first few days she was here he fussed when she would hold him. So one day she decided to win him over and persevered through about 30 minutes of fussiness and he eventually decided she must not be all that bad. For the remainder of her visit he enjoyed his snuggle time with Tia Marci and awarded her with plenty of smiles.
We spent one afternoon at Lynx Lake. We went on a little hike and tried our hand at letter boxing but either we couldn't follow directions or the map was bogus because we could find half of the trail markers that were supposed to be there. The boys were dissapointed that we couldn't finish our "treasure hunt" but we gave it our all. I think Curtis stuck his hand down every hollow trunk along the trail.
We enjoyed a picnic lunch near the lake and of course we can't be near a body of water with out tossing a bunch of rocks into it. Nathan tried to learn the art of skipping rocks since Papi and Tia Marci are pros but he doesn't have a keen eye for picking out skipping appropriate rocks yet.
Even though it looks as though Nate is about to whack Bracken, that rock made it safely into the lake with a pleasingly large splash.
Every time Marci comes to visit the boys beg her to take them riding and she is always happy to oblige. Luckily she has connections with a super nice family that let her ride when ever she is in town and both boys were in horsey heaven.
One evening Curtis surprised us with a last minute shooting adventure. We drove out to one of our favorite spots and the kids had fun shooting up cans of soda and some random pieces of garbage we scrounged up.
Nathan is turning into a little sharp shooter. Tia Marci was pretty impressed with his skills.
When all of our daylight was we enjoyed some grilled chicken, hot dogs, Kmart brand pineapple soda, and a whole lot of silliness.
Boot Buddies
Marci was able to catch one of Nathan's t-ball games before she caught the shuttle down to Phoenix.
It was a glorious week having Marci with us, WE LOVE YOU MARCI!
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