Happy Kenzie’s birthday. Cam, Sadie, and Darren were able to go to a birthday lunch with her while I worked at Highland Elementary. One of my favorite things about the kids’ birthdays is the pictures that get sent in the family group text. Such gems.
Morning clouds. Going back to work. Seeing cute Vie Dicus at Greenwood and texting Hannah. Happy Richfield house memories. Chatting with Mason. Seeing Judy Monson. Seeing all my original kids last night and today at South Jordan birthday dinner. Doing a puzzle while listening to an audiobook. Talking Capitol Reef with a co-worker. Isaiah 14:7 - The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.(Reminds me of the desert.)
Some things that made me smile this week:
Thinking of my mom. (Also made me sad - another birthday of hers in heaven.) Saguaro cactus and the amount of saguaros. Cactus blooms. Creosote, palo verde, and ocotillo plants. Everything wants to poke you. :). Coyote yip and sighting. Desert views. Desert sunset. Desert noisy silence. So many new birds - Gila woodpecker, northern cardinal, roadrunner, white winged dove. Knowing Edge of Seventeen lyrics contain that bird. Darren’s skeptical look when I said that and then realizing it’s true. Picnic at javelina picnic area. Finding faces in cacti. Organ Pipe Cactus. And with an arch in the background. The whole Peralta hike. Views with red rocks and green cacti. Weaver’s Needle. A gila monster! Sweet potato tots. ASU vs U of U baseball game. Commentating on the game. Baseball sounds. The view from the stadium. The evening weather at the game. Our awesome seats. Rainbow over a cactus. Burrito Express. Finding cacti that looked like faces.
We had a good Spring Break here in Arizona. The amount of saguaros we saw - so many! Organ Pipe Cactus Monument was kinda cool. Baseball was fantastic. Fabulous Peralta hike. Burrito Express twice was Phoenix good food. Added a dozen or so birds to my life list. We saw a Gila monster! Weaver’s Needle View was awesome and I've been wanting to see that and hike in the Superstition Mountains for awhile now. Good last morning hike after a little rain that included a rainbow.
Darren and I are doing Spring Break Arizona style. We flew into Phoenix yesterday and drove down to Tucson to start out. Last night we failed at finding some good Mexican food which you would think would be hard to fail at but we did. We drove to my choice and quickly changed our minds. Then we went to Salsa Verde which ended up being OK but definitely nothing to write home about.
Today we explored Saguaro National Park for NP #25 for us. We had a fantastic first stop at Valley View Overlook on the west side of the park.
Look at us out here looking at cactus flowers and getting new birds. Morning in the desert is really cool. It's a noisy silence. Like it's quiet yet you can hear bees and birds and things moving. I like it. Saw the cutest little cottontail bunny but make sure you don't step off the trail because out here everything is trying to poke you.
Got some cool birds today - a roadrunner, a gila woodpecker, and cool thanks to Stevie nicks and Edge of seventeen - white winged dove!
Had a good time together today. We had a pretzel and pizza party (including fruit pizza) for pre-Easter celebrating complete with a scripture scavenger hunt for some peeps and snacks. Today included lots of laughs. Here's an example:
Kenzie farts. Rylie says, “Do you want to play that game with me?”
Rainy day walk up the road to avoid mud with the nieces (and Sadie came with us). They are awesome and appreciated the beauty of the snow frosted trees.
