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.…
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.
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…
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…
Dobbins Lookout, March 2016
On the evening of March 3rd (which happened to be my esteemed husband's birthday!), we took advantage of our in-house babysitting crew to manage the littles while Vicki, Paul and…
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…