A Long Awaited Arrival
All year we have been eagerly anticipating the arrival of our newest family member, and I am delighted to report that on October 25th, sweet little Patrick James Groft was…
Labor Day Weekend (5)
Sunday morning we were hoping to go to mass in St. Johns, then do a scenic drive, but that plan was abruptly curtailed when we discovered, late on Saturday, that…
Labor Day Weekend (4)
Our next stop was a pretty lake whose name I can't remember. I truly think we would have had a longer day of it up in the mountains had Laurent…
Labor Day Weekend (3)
Saturday morning we met up with Laurent and Grandma in Springerville and had breakfast at the McDonald's. We found out there had been some early morning drama at the hotel.…
Labor Day Weekend (2)
Once we'd met up with Grandma and Laurent, we distributed kids for the ride out to the ranch and headed back, much more slowly as we were now carrying 250…
Labor Day Weekend (1)
It's been several years since we did a whole ranch-Labor-Day vacay, and this year we had the chance to take an extra long weekend, so we were pretty excited. We…
Mt. Lemmon
We've never in all our 22 years in Arizona explored much south of Phoenix beyond Casa Grande, so it was with great anticipation that we set out for a brand new destination: Mt. Lemmon, located just to the north and east of Tuscon.
I was completely unprepared to find mountains tall enough to have a ski area and pine trees so far to the south! What a delight it was to see so many beautiful new sights throughout the day.
Another Birthday!
Today we are low-key celebrating another awesome year of Alyssa - it's her actual birthday, but due to work schedules, we will have the party next week. Today, Alyssa is…
Recovering, A New Addition, and Many Portraits
It's been a busy spring - lots going on, despite my being incapacitated with illness for over 6 months. I finally did discover I was hit with both Valley Fever…
Wildflowers
After a Spring-break week of mostly-stellar behavior from the kids, who cleaned every day, played outside, barely fought, and got to watch tons of Marvel movies too, I wanted to…