This was the mildest summer we have had since I moved here. Last year was awful, it was hot and didn't rain. This year it was almost closer to Riverside daytime highs than our normal Phoenix weather and we had the most rain we've had in several years.
It was my first summer in 3 years not having school so we went to the community center water park almost every week. We went so much the kids got bored of it. Story about that below with the pictures.
In early summer Natalie and I got a babysitter for the day and went up to Sedona. This was before the rain started and the fires were bad so everything was shut down. I wanted to do some hiking but we couldn't because the trails were closed. I wanted to go to restaurant we had never been to but they required reservations. So we went to our normal spot, El Rincon instead, this being the first time without the kids. Of course, they were out of their most popular margarita, the prickly pear. We went back last week and I finally tried it and it's the only thing I have ever liked with tequilla.
Some pictures from my balcony during a thunderstorm.
A couple months ago we took the kids bowling at Bowlero. This bowling alley is getting high tech. No longer need two lanes to play with the kids so they can have bumpers. Bumpers are set by player and they go up and down automatically. The kids hated it at first but eventually came around to it. The kids were laughing when Natalie got a strike doing the granny bowl.
Adri learned how to granny bowl and started enjoying it.
Zach trying to be Mr. Cool while his ball goes down the lane.
Dean was the one kid that liked bowling from the start.
We had a casualty this summer. I was on my balcony one weekend watching a thunderstorm thinking it would really suck if the neighbors palo verde blew over. Well a week later it happened. I didn't even hear the wind that night but we came out in the morning to a downed palo verde. Our yard will never be the same. That tree shaded the entire trampoline area.
This is a new drink I created. I grow prickly pear in my backyard and had my first crop this year of a whoppin 6 fruits. I juiced them then created a cocktail with gin, triple sec, vodka, lime rum, spiced rum, simple syrup, and ginger beer. Then I put that in an ice cube tray and froze it. Due to all the liquor it doesn't freeze hard. So then I take out the cubes and put it in a cup with some limonade juice and it gets all slushy. Really good drink.
In July my niece moved back to Colorado so the family came out for the weekend. First time we've had all of us siblings at my house. We had some of my new prickly pear cocktail, went to the water park, and the girls came my dad a little bit of a beard trim.
In the first week of August I told the kids to get ready so we could hang out at the water park. They told me the water park was boring. I absolutely lost my ****. My kids have so much compared to when I was growing up. I had to find friends with a pool or play baseball in 100 degrees when I had nothing to do. They have a pool in their backyard and access to a water park whenever they want but it's boring. So I made myself a cocktail, or two, or three. I really don't remember. I just remember they did a few hours of chores to learn what boring is while I yelled out commands and drank my cocktail. From this day on when I said we are going to the water park they ran for their shoes.
Boring waterpark.
Adri is going through the phase where even when it's 110 degrees she wants to wear a sweater. I got sick of her in the ugly Walmart sweater so I forked out $90 bucks on the best sweater on the planet. The Insomnium Song of The Blackest Bird sweater.
The boys playing in the rain.
Decided to take the kids hiking in the rain one even at the New River wash. This wash is normally dry but when it rains it can be a couple hundred feet wide.
Dean loves coffee for some reason and is always begging for it. Every once in a while I give in and let him have some coffee with me.
Zach finally cut the mop off his head.
One of my favorite things to do once it cools off. Hiking in the New River wash.
Gavilan Peak.
My favorite new hat. Let's go Brandon.
Work sent me a new monitor covered in bubble wrap. Dean said he didn't have anything to do. OK, problem solved.
Dean couldn't find his "Percy" train.
I started going back to the gym. I'm on the elliptical one morning and I see this. A guy swimming with a face shield on. Humans are just getting too stupid for me to deal with.
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