Leonard Party of 6

How is it possible that we've been in school for going on 4 weeks already??? Time flies when you're melting in Arizona, LOL!!! But seriously, it's been a good summer. Very relaxing, very chill. Obviously not in the literal sense, it's been hovering between 108 and 114 for quite awhile now! We've had one major monsoon storm so far...I sure hope they are right about the predictions for a very wet winter! It's hard to believe that have a  10th, 8th, 6th and 3rd grade this year! Everyone is settled into their school routines pretty well by now. Bus rides are shorter and overall, things are running smoothly! Aspen is getting bigger and BIGGER! We had to upgrade the crate because she was too tall to fully stand in her old one. We've had a dog behaviorist work with us. I had a lot of high hopes as he was the curator of the wolf and coyote exhibits at the San Antonio zoo for over 7 years. He had some great suggestions and much like Cesar Millan, his suggestion

This summer has been a glorious whirlwind of travel! As you know, we started off the last day of school headed to Disneyland. A couple of weeks later, Shane and I went to San Diego to mix a little business with our anniversary getaway. Recently, he had a conference in northern Arizona so we tagged along and went to Bearizona, the Flagstaff Arboretum and then headed up to Colorado. San Diego was awesome! We stayed in a gorgeous hotel right next door to Seaport Village. We did a harbor cruise (I had not done one of those since before we had kids) and we toured the USS Midway! What a great experience! I really didn't care much about doing it but Shane was really excited so I said sure ;) It turned out to be amazing! Our trip to Flagstaff was great, it was pleasently chilly! We swam, got in the hot tub, hiked all over the Arboretum, saw squirrels and all sorts of beautiful birds. We went to Bearizona which is a preserve of sorts. They have bears, wolves, bison, fox, badgers, mounta