Mom's Birthday gathering!

Clearly we are not moving fast enough
to entertain Kris...

Hello, Family--
It just dawned on me that I did not post anything about Mom's birthday, when all her kids descended on her house in Tucson and celebrated for the weekend!

I really like this one of Mom:
Happy Birthday! :)

Mostly I want to share the pics. Our activities were not grandiose, but it was really cool to see each other and chat, and Kathi/Kim/Kari took a couple of walks on the golf courses in the mornings.

(If you click on these pics, they will show up bigger...on your computer, )

Mom n all 4 kids

in one line

sitting in cactus in the backyard

family temple trip!

birds in the backyard

tiny baby quail, camouflaged but so cute!

backyard visitor

uninvited guest Sunday

fire dept came and took him away
(no fires in Saddlebrooke this afternoon)

the coyote's after you...

2 javelinas on the hill

eating bird seed? really?

The weather was HEAVENLY, in the 80s and 90s while I was there, quite unseasonably cool for June. It even rained one evening! About 12 hours of a cool, steady rain.

Before I left, Mom said I must have seen almost all the animals that frequent her backyard: deer, rabbits, quail, hummingbirds, roadrunner, coyote...just not a javelina or bobcat.

We had a rattlesnake visitor, too, which the fire department came and took away.

THEN, on the last morning about 5:30, I looked out and there was a javelina pig-creature, eating the bird seed in the backyard :0 Who knew they liked birdseed, right!

So I only missed the bobcat. Next time, right!

feeder outside on the back porch

Avery and Grandma Kay

Highlights of the trip included all of us going to the Tucson temple, for the first time for me. They have some artwork on the walls that I have never seen before...like, ALL the artwork except maybe 2 or 3, was new to me! It was so nice. And to be in the temple with siblings and Mom...it was a good day!

Jessica and Avery came the next day, after Kris went home. Again, fun to hang out and we caught the new Incredibles movie, too!

The Girls before The Incredibles 2