Last Tuesday, May 19th, Angie and I took the kiddos for a day trip to Sedona. We had a great time and it was nice to get away for a day. We left Maricopa at about 9:30 and arrived in Sedona at about 11:30. We proceeded onto Oak Creek Canyon, Slide Rock specifically. We took the . . . → Read More: Day Trip to Sedona
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It turns out Onyx would not be a good cougar hunting partner as previously thought. Embedded video from . . . → Read More: Cougar Hunting Last night we went to see the D-Backs take one San Diego Padres, or Pears if you ask Holley. The game was alot of fun. The D-Backs had a 6-0 lead until the 7th or 8th when the Padres got 4 runs. Luckily, the D-Backs only gave one run, a homer, in the top of the . . . → Read More: D-Backs game with the kids Ethan started swim lessons today. He did fantastic! He cried which is expected, but he grabbed the bar as he was instructed to do. He also has great breath control. He takes a breath before she dunks him under the water. He would be under water for three to five seconds before grabbing the bar all . . . → Read More: Ethan’s swim lessons Ethan started his swim lessons today. He is not a big fan right now, but its totally worth it. These lessons are swimming survival lessons. That means the goal is to teach him how to survive falling in the pool if by chance he were to end up in the pool area without an adult. His instructor . . . → Read More: Ethan’s Swim Lessons Started Today We had a party at Eric’s house. Sean, Matt were the only two guys there. Monica, Ann, Heater, Mindy, and Glenda also joined us. The kids were Me, Holley, Jack, Ethan, Mckenize, Briaana, Maddie. First, we hopped in the pool. After a while of that we got and had dinner. We had hotdogs, hamburgers, chips, watermelon . . . → Read More: The party at Erics At the party a lot of little kids came and played with Ethan. They also swam with everybody. After swimming, everybody came in and ate some hamburgers and hotdogs. Then we had homemade ice cream sandwiches. By then everybody was ready to go home. After everyone was gone, we cleaned up and watched a movie, . . . → Read More: Party at the Copes I attended the DBacks game with some friends from work. Duane knew the home plate umpire who let us have his tickets right behind home plate, row 32. Great seats. After the game, we met the umpire who gave us used game baseballs and took us out on the field, see below. It was . . . → Read More: DBacks vs. Reds Carolyn had the idea of taking photos my mom for mother’s day. I decided to one-up her and use them along with Ethan’s hand print for Aubrey’s mother’s day gift. Here are the photos. If you want to print them, let me know and I can send the hi-res ones. Thanks to Riley for the mad . . . → Read More: Mother’s Day Photos I went shooting with three good friends today, Russell, Matt, and Ritch. We left Maricopa around 6:45am, hitting the range around 7:15. We all brought our arms and tried each for ourselves. I loved shooting both the shotgun as well as the rifle. I think Russell is still trying to beat my rifle grouping (5″ at . . . → Read More: Shooting Today |
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