The girls recently received some adorable hair accessories from their Grandma. Here they are showing off their favorite new styles.

A. gets ready to build some sand castles in the backyard while Mommy pulls the weeds.

This is how P. likes to do yard work.

Ah, the dirndls Grandma Sue brought back from Germany live on to grace the toddler bodies of yet another generation.

Likewise, Grandma Sue's exquisite needle and ribbon work create the same adorable, cotton- candy perfection on P. as they did on her aunts and Mommy three decades earlier.

A. attempts to stay cool at the Sonoran Desert Museum--an beautiful desert zoo and garden in West Tucson. It was 101 degrees in the shade that day.

August is monsoon season in Arizona--huge microburst storms originated off the gulf of California roll through the region. Here, A. enjoys a romp in the rain.

Daddy and his girls!