Monday, August 31, 2009

At The Park



In Praise Of My Wife's Peach Pie

On the breakfast menu this morning:

Homemade peach pie.


Delicious.


Not only is Vada an amazing mother of 4, homeschooling, homemaking,
financial planner/manager, great friend, and all around cool person, she
also bakes tastey peach pies for me to eat for breakfast! - Matthew

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Operation Crawdad


Sam shows off the crayfish trap.

Ready to bait the trap with stinky tuna water.....yuck.



We got some!



We brought them home for further study.




Total catch: 5 crawdads and 3 minnows.


We tried to relocate them, but they didn't like their new home. So we had to move them back into the plastic tub.

Monday, August 10, 2009

Return To Mingus Mountain


Fire and smoke couldn't keep us from returning to the mountain.

On the way home the "controlled" burn had gotten out of control and we had to return to Cottonwood via Prescott Valley.

30 minutes in the woods and our children had gone feral.






Stand back or get whacked!






Friday, August 7, 2009

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

On Mingus Mountain



Grumpy Nature Girl.



All better now, talking with trees.




Heidi shows Sam how to dig a hole in the woods.







First Day Of School

Anna, Gwen, and Sam show off their new clothes on the first day of school.

Thank you Grandma and Grandpa Beach!




Mrs. Taylor in the classroom with some of her students.