- Taylor graduated from high school - top 5% #16 full scholarship to N.A.U so proud we moved her up there in July she got a job a week later at Barnes and Noble and is rocking the college thing
- Kyley got her permit and has been driving lately (and I am still here)
- update to the update... Kyley got her driving license on 10-1-13 watch out East Valley
- Ty started junior high - American Leadership Academy ALA - a charter school tough decision for a public school teacher, and is playing tackle football for the Special Forces.
- Wyatt started piano and according to his teacher "Wyatt is my favorite student."
- Family moved again in June - we like to pick the hottest weekend and bam lets move, its smaller but it is closer to work, in a Cox neighborhood so we have good internet, good ward and best of all a pool.
Taylor living in Flagstaff was all the excuse we needed to go visit. We left early Sunday morning and made good time, it was so good to see her I just feel complete when we are all together, I kind-of hate knowing the is the beginning of the end, the end of family life as I have known it, but I guess it is the beginning of a new chapter...
We walked around down-town Flag ate lunch then hit the lava river tube caves. So cool quite literally. It was a warmish day but when we walked up to the opening of the cave it felt like someone had left the AC on super low and left the front door open. We needed a jacket and a flashlight. Loren's light went out about half way through the hike so he sat and waited until we were done - it wasn't a long hike about a mile to the end of the "tube" but with out a light impossible. It was so neat. After we hike we pulled over to the side of the road, make a fire with the Sunday paper and wood we found, roasted hotdogs and ate turkey sandwiches. There were mushrooms all around, big ones small ones, red ones, orange ones - Loren really wanted to take some home but we didn't have out "edible mushroom" guide on us and thought we better not risk it. 
The next day Loren remembers seeing a Canyon when he was hunting and when he got home followed it on Google map. He wanted to see what was there - It was Walnut Canyon where the Native Americans lived many years ago and there was dwellings in the side of the canyon (you can see them in the picture behind Taylor's shoulder.) You hiked around the "island" a mountain where one side was cool in the shade with pines, then the other side warm with juniper and more desert life. So much history at this place, we explored the "rooms" read all the plaques talked about how cool it would have been to see this village at its prime thriving with activity. It was another place only 3 hours from my home yet I had never even heard of it. Thanks Taylor for choosing NAU to go to school - we are learning lots.
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