Final Days of Summer

The last days of summer are upon us. Sunday we ditched church (ya, ya) we headed up to the Jemez Mountains. We did a hike at Battleship rock then let the kids play in the water. We then enjoyed a picnic lunch. After lunch we headed up the mountain a little further. We went on a second hike to Jemez Falls. It was a nice day out in the mountains together as a family. Last night after the kids went to their ice cream social at school we decided to go on a bike ride. We went to the Alameda open space to ride the trails. We had lots of fun & the kids did great. On the way back we passed a farm or ranch with all kinds of cool animals. They had Camels, Ostrich, Donkeys, Goats, Lamas and Horses. Nice evening out. It's been a nice summer kinda sad to see it end, especially the late evenings outside.

Bike ridding pictures

Beautiful sunset in the desert

The kids on the bike trail

Savannah rode her big wheels for over a mile

Griffin with his bike

A little evening painting

This afternoon I went to Hobby Lobby to look at something.
Trevor had a little cash to burn so he decided he really
wanted to buy this wooden Nutcracker. His plan is to paint
it to look like Willie Wonka. After dinner we set everything up
and got started. So far so good.

Savannah & Griffin had to join in too. I had nothing for them to

paint, so I grabbed this piece of wood from the garage to share.

Notice the shirtless kids. I feel so much better if they can't

destroy their shirts. This is not the washable kind of paint.

Fun way to pass the rainy evening while Daddy is at the indoor

rock climbing gym.

Aquarium & Botanical Gardens

Kids looking at the bell tower at the newly opened Japanese Gardens

Taking a break on a cool log bench

The Japanese Gardens were so pretty

A rare photo of Mom & kids (Griffin was getting grouchy)

Cool statue in the pond

Savannah looking at the fish

Patrick, Savannah & Trevor looking at Jellyfish

Griffin liked these long skinny fish

So Cheap It's Free

So I was going to do a cereal deal at Walgreen, but I realized that

Smith's had a much better deal. Certain Kellogg's cereal were 1.50

buy 10 boxes and they take 5.00 off your order. There were some

great coupons in today's paper including for Kellogg's cereal.

I went & got 2 more papers and some paper towels used my

register rewards from last week I had so paid nothing out of

pocket. Went to Smith's with 5 1.00 off 2 boxes of cereal. My

total was 5.00 The best part is there is a mail in rebate. Buy 10

boxes of Kellogg's cereal get 10.00 back. So, basically I get the

cereal for free & they pay me 5.00 more dollars! Yippee ...

Patrick is tired of all the cereal I've been buying though.

On the way out of the store I went to the REDBOX to rent a movie

which was also free. Here are some codes for the REDBOX each code

can be used once per credit card.

DVDONME

THX0708

FUJI26

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