Arizona Travels

Yesterday Jodi and I spent the day together, we went for a scenic drive through central area up the Bush Highway and State Route 87. We had a blast. We even put out a smoldering fire that some irresponsible doof left. The first picture is a view looking north over a place called Mud Springs (great 4wheeling place).

The next pictures is a cactus flower that bloomed. The cactus was really small, about the size of a one liter bottle of water, and the flower was the size of a silver dollar. Cactus flowers in the desert are awesome to see, they are really colorful. Most of the cactuses were in bloom, except for the ones where the birds had eaten all of the flower seeds and buds off of it. But it was a very gorgeous site to see all of the different kinds and colors of flowers in bloom.

This little guy on the rock is the guard dog for Mesquite Wash (another great 4 wheeling place, camping, a day playing in the water). Jodi took this picture, we laughed about this little guy. He was defending his rock from what ever came down the road.

This last picture I took was cool. I was walking along the Salt river bank and saw this guy fly fishing out in the middle of the river. He was doing good out in the middle. He caught 3 trout while I was standing there.

A Great Baseball Game

Yesterday, Jodi and I went to a great baseball game. And No it wasn't the Arizona Diamondbacks, since they aren't that great right now. We went to the Arizona State baseball game. Currently ASU is in the post season again for the 23 year in a row (NCAA record). They played against Oral Roberts, who is a really good team as well. We sat on the lawn on the first base side of the field (which is the visitors side). The game was awesome!!!!!! It was a pitching dual. The ASU pitcher had a perfect game through 6th innings. Being at the game was fun, lots of little kids playing their own little baseball game behind the lawn seats, which was funny to see them play. We had a few good laughs. Sparky was great too with the kids, he was giving high fives and taking pictures with every little kid that came up to him. ASU won the baseball game and they are currently one win away from going to the super regional. We are cheering for ASU.

Happy 4th Birthday Hayden!!!!

HAPPY BELATED B-DAY JAY! SORRY THAT WE FORGOT TO POST FOR IT! GLAD TO HEAR THAT YOU HAD A GOOD TIME! YOU ARE SOOOOO OLD!!!!!! LOL

And the verdict is?

Tuesday my little sister found out that she is having a GIRL!!! Total excitement for a new little one. This is the first grandchild for my Mom with her biological children. The shame is that I now have to wait until October to meet my new little niece. I want to see her cute little face and smell the goodness that a brand new baby smells like. But she still has to roast in the oven called Leslie!! I am proud to say that I will be getting a total 3 new Nephews and 3 new Nieces in the fall!!!! Yeah me and my love for babies!

Canoeing with the "Minons"

I don't have any pictures of the day that we had on Saturday before I had to go to work. We woke up really early and picked up Camron and the Canoe, and made our way over to Dobson Ranch Lake. We had a lot of little "Minons" ( Scott's way of saying little people, that are his little friends) waiting to go out on the lake in our Canoe. This is one of our favorite past times to do, we inherited this canoe from my Step-Dad Delbert. It sat in his back yard for like forever, and then one day my mom called and said do you want this huge canoe. We jumped at the chance to own a canoe. It has brought many joys. We have found a fondness with taking it out at Woods Canyon Lake and fishing with it. Scott took out all of the kids in the canoe many many times. They all pretty much wanted a chance to use the oar. That was a great scene to see a little child under the age of 6 trying to row the canoe forward. Three of the "Minons" wanted to help with the taking of the canoe out of the lake. They pulled with all of their little 3 year old muscles. They pulled it out with Scott at the helm. Then they wanted to put it back in, and scott said no we were done with it in the water, so they plus all of the toddlers crawled into it to play in it until scott pulled the canoe to the SUV. Fun times. We will have to do this again, but the next time we need to do it up north!!

Peach Season

We went out to Schnepf farms and picked organic peaches right off of the tree!!! It was a lot of fun, especially to see all of the peaches that had grown "funky" so to speak. One of them had grown together with three other ones, Scott said that it looked like a Butt!! (Laughed my butt off !! LOL) We also purchased a jar of their homeade Peach Jam. YUMMM!! I plan on dabbling my hand in making peach jam sometime this week (we will see how this goes), I get the pleasure of using my husband's late Grandma Greenhalgh's cookbook that I have a copy of. I am told that she was an excellent cook. I have tasted some of her recipes made from his mom and sisters, and I have to say that it was so yummy! So hopefully sometime down the road I can post that it was a success with the making of Peach Jam!!!

Yipee!!! School and Work Fun

Today is one of the most joyous days in a long time. SCOTT GRADUATED SCHOOL!!!!!! He passed his final and got his little diploma. And to top off the Graduation, I myself got a raise at work, and I am now the department head!!! Yeah Me!!! We leave tomorrow to go on a mini vacation up to my Mom's. We are going to be going fishing , hiking, playing in the water and possibly going Quading (so sorry Kat, but we can't fit you in our suitcases, so you will have to go next time!) Now it is just a waiting game on what is going to be happening in our lives in the next couple of months, hopefully he is going to get hired to full time status here in the next couple of weeks. And if everything all pans out the way we think it is going to pan out we may be moving!!!!