Monday, September 20, 2010

Waterfall Hiking, Garden, and more



Here's a couple funny pictures of Jada. the first is her patiently waiting for the paper maiche mask to dry....she waited almost 2 hours then I had to blow dry it. She wanted to be a musketeer for Halloween but has changed her mind and wants to be a cat again. The second photo, Jada found a long piece of white fabric and got some wild idea to take permanent marker and draw a face on it. She sat in the hallway meowing at me. She was being Mario...she sure fooled me, I had to go throw "Mario" back in the bedroom before the dog got him...after getting his picture of course.












These are some pictures of how crazy the tomato plants have gone...they are so huge they killed off my strawberry plants and bell peppers. Next time we decided only 6...not 18 problem is they come in those 6 packs and we got quite a few varieties. We couldn't even find our onions! In the bucket is the harvest every 2 to 3 days! I'm ready to plant for fall but i still have so many green tomatoes out there.













So fishing turned out to be too expensive so we decided to explore one of the mountains waterfalls. It was a long hike jumping over many logs rocks and strange bugs. I almost went face first into a spider the size of a half dollar and bright orange...whew I would have frieked out! But I saw him right before my nose was going to hit the web. Jada was a trooper, I think it really tired her out she begged to go back just before we got to the end. We also found a huge sheer cliff where people apparently go rock climbing, as there were hooks drilled in the rock. Might be worth a try someday. We made our way back to camp but then got swarmed by about 5 big families trying to fit on the spots 3 picnic tables. We decided to leave, too many people to enjoy ourselves.














Sunday, September 12, 2010

Sunday Adventures...

So again we went to the mountains for a little Sunday family time (no hiking this time).
We found some strange things along the way...right by our campsite hidden in the brush Jada thought she saw a turtle shell looking rock and when she touched it she immediately jumped away....it was just a very large strange looking mushroom.

Then as she was playing on a nearby hill she discovered a "lucky" horseshoe. so we nailed it to the tree but later had to hide it away, Jada didn't want anyone taking it...
Jada and I decided to try and make up some games to play. She came up with pinecone golf...


And i built a ski ball sort of rock tossing game out of a pile of rocks we found...

Then we climbed trees and walked around all the campgrounds exploring...

When we came upon the Mt Graham red squirrel. These are ONLY found on this mountain range and they are on the endangered list. Arizona was even going to install covered squirrel bridges over all the roads to protect the species, but ran out of funding. These little guys were not afraid of people one came in arms reach of Jada and I as we walked and rubbed his face in a leaf.

And finally on the way home a tiny tiny little glimpse of a rainbow appeared. It was a bit bigger than this but by the time I climbed to the back of the truck and got my camera it grew smaller. After I snapped this it disappeared altogether...what i thought was odd are the beams of light coming down because the sun was actually setting behind us, unless it reflected up and then down off a white cloud...it just didn't make sense to see beams over here.

Next week we decided to go fishing for the first time, depending on how much a fishing license will be. Till then...

Friday, September 10, 2010

How did she fit in this box?

A few Random pictures


Cant believe the carrots got so big last fall! I need to figure out when things are done growing.













Just one of a few pictures we took when we went camping right before school started. Every picture i took Jada has a fudge brownie in her hand...I think she ate almost a whole pack that day unbeknown to me!





Sunday, September 5, 2010

Jada's school offers after school clubs, I asked Jada if she wanted to join the "Cultural Dance Club" and ever that conversation she has been inventing her own "cultural dances." It took some convincing but she finally did it in front of the camera.