Monsoon guard and top of mt elden

Run run run

Practicing our swaddling

In preparation for the new one. It's been a while.

We got a kiddie pool!

Hard at work on something

Probably drafting plans for a custom motorcycle

Not wanting to share the horse at story time today

Our 1st negative electricity bill!

Day 2 of the Celtic festival

Eatin' fries

Spelunking

This cave just opens up randomly in the forest floor and is open for exploring. It's an old lava tube and goes for almost a mile. It's pretty scrambly so we couldn't go far with a big pregnant lady and a little toddler, but we'll definitely be back.

At the Celtic festival

back at the homestead

the pond has been decommissioned.

 and a lower fence installed with a few gates, increasing our toddler friendly rating considerably.

More trucks

She also got to drive the all terrain ambulance.

Then we went for a little walk in the forest and Zeus found a nice mud hole.

Touch a Truck

On Saturday we took Nora to "Touch a Truck," where they bring out a bunch of cool trucks, vehicles, and big equipment, and let kids crawl all over them. It was a hit! Her favorite was the (air conditioned) city bus.

Beep beep!

In the back of the cop car

just playing at the park

i summon the storm

unleash the STORM

and now i go ride a bear

Finally pitching in around here

She grabbed the simple green and wanted to "clean" so I turned the nozzle to off and gave her a rag. What fun!

At the park with monsoon in background

More from Blues and Brews

Scenes from the parade

Scenes #2

Happy 4th of July!

Fashionista!

Relaxing in the shady parking lot after a very short walk to some thousand year-old Indian ruins right here in town

A nice hike on a segment of the Arizona Trail

It was flat, so big mama could handle it. We crossed some open cattle range, and Dakota behaved herself around the cows. We also saw a herd of about 60 elk cows and calves! That was exciting.

Dogs