We arrived in Iowa on Friday night, December 19. I always love returning to my hometown and being at either of our family’s homes. It’s such a warm, relaxing, and happy feeling to be home and with people who know us and love us so much! We’re so blessed to have both of our families…
From December 18-19, 2014 How blessed we are to have an extra long Christmas break! I don’t know if I will ever say that phrase again, but at least I know that we took advantage of it and enjoyed it as much as we could! This year, we did our “reverse snowbird” thing again and…
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year From our family to yours! click to enlarge! Our year began with us back in Iowa with our families, celebrating Christmas in 7 different homes, traveling with Curtis’ family to Michigan to see family, traveling with my family to Missouri to some basketball tournaments, and surviving the -30 wind…
It’s beginning to *feel* a lot like Christmas! Here in Arizona, you can’t go by looks, because it always looks the same in the desert. So I guess you could say it always looks like Christmas… 😉 Anyway, it is becoming quite chilly down here. It’s only 60 degrees right now, and I’m sitting here…
Veteran’s Day Hike! November 11, 2014 Picacho Peak Happy Veteran’s Day! We are thankful for all who have served and are currently serving. Tonight we talked a bit about how different next year’s Veteran’s day will be, after Curtis has begun his service. For today, we were thankful for a day off from school so…
November 8, 2014 Carr and Miller peaks Arizona’s 20-20 challenge – 20 diverse and prominent peaks and canyons throughout the state of Arizona. We have hiked the #1 peak – Mt. Humphreys – and the #11 – Mt. Wrightson. We’ve also been to the peaks of Heliograph (#6) and Mt. Lemmon (#17), but those are…