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.
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…
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…
July 4th at the Ranch
Ahh, 4th of July at the ranch! This was our first 4th with 6 new Heidmanns, and we had a blast. No, not literally. We didn't even have any sparklers,…
Tonic To My Soul
Today marked the end of another amazingly wonderful week with Vicki. We've known each other 37 years! Her visits every spring are a tonic to my soul. So how did…