Trip to Flagstaff

We had a free Saturday and decided to drive a couple of hours to Flagstaff...to get some volcanic soil to use in the garden next year, to hunt for morrell mushrooms (epic fail) and to just eat up the cool weather, since Phoenix is already hitting 100 degrees.

I found this patch of snow as we walked near a trail on the road to Snow Bowl. 

Spied some deer

Kayty Goes To Disneyland

She thought she would be in Disneyland on May 4th (Star Wars Day) ...a bucket list item for this Star Wars Fan!!! But, she went with a friend's family, and they planned on California Adventure for Friday. It was a fun time, nonetheless!

Diamondback Baseball Game

Our friends from church invited us to share in their Diamondback Baseball season tickets. We saw the world Champion San Francisco Giants play...and I can see why they won the World Series in 2012...they were awesome! It was fun...and the weather was great! The stadium is air conditioned, but on nice evenings, they open up the top...and that they did!

We had such awesome seats! The players actually looked like people...not ants!

Grammy had to share the fun with her grandbabies. Here she is trying to hear Adam on the phone. Baseball stadiums are noisy places!!!

Ron and Judy Newhouse and Suzzy

This is some sort of race with retired Diamondback Players. 

Uncle Morgan Meets Kaylee

Morgan was going to surprise me and come on Mother's Day, but a friend was in trouble, stuck in Colorado, so he and a friend went off to the rescue and then stopped by on the way back to Texas. Nicest Early Mother's Day present...ever!

Matching Mermaids

Kayty LOVES to shop. She was shopping, and saw a dress for Kaylee...so she bought it, dressed in the one she made for herself, and the two Disney Mermaids posed for a picture.

Bread Baking Efforts

I have had a goal to make awesome bread. I have a pretty good recipe for our regular whole wheat bread, and I make about 3 loaves every other week for our family eating. I constantly try others too. This one was a healthy bread with wheat, flax, sunflower seeds. I liked it, but it didn't like our weather, and just didn't rise right...so this is a one time loaf (I tried twice...second was no better than the first)

He Grew Artichokes

Dee grew artichokes...tons of them. However, they apparently like cook moist California breezes, and lots of water...two things we do not have, nor can afford...Phoenix Water Rates are horrible! So these are the early pickings...and the rest are for the chickens.