• Skiing Arizona in March

    What a wonderful few days we spent this week in the high country of Arizona.  There is a ski resort, ran by Apaches, that is still open for business although the snow was icy in parts and slushy in others.  Optimum snow it was not but we had a good time anyways!  I figure if everyone could ski on that snow they would be incredible on decent snow. There was quite a group of us and we got in under a school rate.  A great price for ski rentals, lift ticket & condo made us all very happy skiers. 🙂 Here we’re standing in front of the condo. It was very…

  • Week in Review 2/27/11 – 3/5/11

    We had a birthday here this week. Mine, as a matter of fact. I had a very nice day.  For my birthday breakfast, Zachary prepared a delicious omelet, Russ bought me some flowers and Serenity did the rest.  She’s always so thoughtful to me.  Friends from the south arrived at our place and we gave them a taste of farm life here at the ranch… and showed them the beautiful grandeur of the Grand Canyon. Of course, there’s always music.  We even convinced Seth to pull out his banjo which had not seen the light of day for several years.  We figured he just needed a straw hat and a piece of…

  • Week in Review 2/20/11

    The past week there’s been a little art…   a little hairstylin’ going on… (Audrey wanted my hair to look pretty, so she fixed it all up.) 🙂 (Uhhh, hmmm, please ignore the adverb poster that’s falling in the background.  It has now been rehung. 🙂 Oh, and the socks on the floor and… well why don’t you just go ahead and block out the whole background.  Thank you.  I’m much obliged!)   and a great opportunity to hear a mountain man talk…      where we got to see a beaver skull… (My finger shows where they carry sticks when they’re building their dams. And check out those incisors!))   and saw some containers that would…

  • Shopping List App

    I’m pretty much behind the times when it comes to iPod’s, iTouch’s & iPhone’s.  The rest of my family have iPod’s but not me and I actually have no real interest in getting one.  My phone is a pretty old one passed on to me by my dear hubby.  However, this past summer I was bitten by the “technology bug” when my good friend showed me her iTouch and I fell in love!  The little icons you could just touch with your fingers to use, the versatility and ease of use looked so attractive.  I was completely impressed.   The price tag on those things is not too nice though and I didn’t even know if I could justify getting one off the used market. …

  • Week in Review 2/13/11

    A trip to California, visitors and a big book sale are a few of the things I’ve been up to the last few weeks.  I’ve been very inattentive to this blog, have I not? 🙂  This week we had the loveliest tea party.  Audrey (my 5yo) set it all up.  As you can see, Serenity bedecked herself with quite the finery. It’s always nice to be entertained so we were quite delighted to have this special entertainer show up at our little tea party. In other happenings of our household, the boys have embarked upon a rather exhausting exercise program. They found a Navy SEALS workout book and are attempting to…