Here is a super-adorable video of Matilda singing:

ummm.... coming soon. damn internet

Soocer Season: Trophy Time

Soccer season ended the other day and every kid gets a trophy (isn't that nice?) Griffin was super-excited. Kept talking about it the whole time and asking the coaches when, when when? Here he is before the game with his buddy Marcos:

Another buddy, Jude:

Getting his trophy:

Matilda like to get in on group pictures too, she can't wait to join the soccer team:

Camping in March

I took the kids camping again this past weekend, back to Catalina State Park. Much busier this time because it is their "on-season" but we got to relax and take a couple of nice little hikes.

Wooly-Bear catapillers, they do live in Arizona apparently. We saw about seven

I sometimes let the kids do the camp cooking. Note the secluded campground...

I made Griffin this walking stick years before he was born:

Griffin took this:

Griffin was really into turning over rocks and looking for critters, this was the most interesting one found:

Matilda took this! :

I like to climb rocks:

Parent's visit

Once again I find myself woefully behind in updating this blog. I feel as if maybe the novelty has worn off a bit and with the lack of feedback I wonder if anyone checks here regularly.

Things are going well, Christmas came and went. I just started the 4th semester at NAU and the workload seems heavier than usual. I'll finish my classwork in May, then take a couple online classes over the summer for degree fulfillment. After that I start student teaching in August. I do that for four months and then I'm finished. Yay. I'm trying to get placed a local elementary school that has a pre-school program Matilda can attend. Griffin starts kindergarden, perhaps at that school, maybe another one, we don't know yet.

Mike and Joyce visited Tucson in early December again this year, here are some pictures:

Fake snow (duh) from downtown Christmas festival

Lightsaber battle in Wallgreens:

Grand Canyon Day 1

Here are the Grand Canyon pics! This is sunrise on our first day, we had car-camped on the rim the previous night and cooked breakfast and coffee at the trailhead before heading off. Me on the left, friend Brian in the middle and friend Kyle on the right

Kyle likes to eat honey out of the jar when camping. Took a few of these shots

About halfway down. We lost about 4700 feet of elevation the first day

Nearing the Colorado River:

I was so tired at this point of the day. Probably the only time on the trip I didn't feel great:

Messy campsite: