January 2!
On this first Monday of the year, and last Monday of the Christmas holidays, I was ever grateful that, after rising around 5:30am briefly, I was able to get back…
Black Friday Walkabout
[Guest written by Paul] Traditions, it is said, annoy the younger generation. So it is with the traditions that I have started. One of these is to go for a…
Boys Weekend
This was the weekend Dad took the four youngest boys up to the ranch in Tom-Tom (the new truck). It turned out to be, as you might expect, a very…
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.
Into the Wild
All these hooligans were home from school on Presidents day. This meant that daddy, who was working from home, had a choice. He could either mount the monumental effort required…
The Rest of Our 4th Weekend
Much of Thursday was spent running around doing errands in St. Johns. We had a little shopping to do, including buying shoes for Xavier. He somehow managed to not tell…
Weekend with the Winklers
Over the Memorial Day weekend, we took the family (minus Laurent, who had singing obligations, and Geneva, who wasn't yet back from Texas) up to the ranch for some family…
Road Trip!
With a growing family including 10 kids plus miscellaneous other persons, it became incredibly unwieldy to travel anywhere with 3 vehicles. We decided in March to pare down the vehicular…
White Tanks Waterfall Trail
Backing up to review our wonderful week of Vicki, here are pics from the day we hiked the Waterfall Trail at White Tank Mountain Regional Park. It was a gorgeous…
Peeking out from under my rock…
It's been more than a month, hasn't it... Yep. Feb. 2 was my last post. I can't even begin to think about catching up right now, either. There's just too…