Superstition Mountain Hike

This Friday Tony and I hiked up to Flat Iron and on up to the top of the Superstition Mountains. Somehow we defied death once again and made it down alive. It was an odd day... (meaning it was cloudy out to Arizona people). The tops were in the clouds which I thought would make for a neat hike. It did however one thing I forgot about is how much work you do to expect a view. For the first 45 minutes we saw nothing but a white abyss as we looked over the edge however luckily for us it did eventually clear to give us the views we worked for.

Superstition Flat Iron Hike

Goldmine Mountains Hike

Last Friday Caitlyn and I decided to go take a hike up a mountain. I use the word "mountain" very loosely. Fortunately we made it to the top where we ate cookies, drank out of water bottles and threw rocks. Anyhow Caitlyn is now already to go out and climb more mountains although I think I will be the one who chooses which ones we climb as she thinks she can climb anything.

Goldmine Moutain Hike Pictures

Our New House

Well we have been in our new house for about a little over a month now and we finally got enough stuff unpacked and put away to take a few pictures of it. Its been a huge relief to be done with the whole process and we can almost find where we put most of our stuff now.

House Pictures

Halloween 2008

This year Caitlyn was Mini Mouse for Halloween. She is really starting to get into the trick-or-treating but still doesnt know how to defend her candy from me. This probably will change next year but since we have another one on the way I should be able to take advantage of him/her for the near future. The night before we carved a pumpkin and Caitlyn loved helping clean out the inside. I figured it would be best if I carved the face especially since I bought an electric pumpkin carving machine that I needed to test out. I drew up four different designs to let her choose from. Fortunately for me she didnt choose any of the detailed ones I drew up like the "Cat" Pumpkin and insisted we do the simple "Happy" Pumpkin.

Halloween Pictures

Fall Trip To Prescott

This October we were invited to go up to our friends, Becky and Tonys cabin. It was great get up to the mountains and see the fall leaves as well as do some hiking and mountain biking. Unfortunately I only had two days off and the transmission on my car decided to flip out but it was well worth the trip.

Prescott Cabin Trip

Busy Fall

This fall we have been extremely busy. We finally moved into our new house just in time for some friends from Germany to come for a visit. Work has slowed down so it has given me some time to get a lot of things done to the house. I also managed to do a little bit of hiking and we took a couple trips to the zoo as well as to Schnepf farms for their pumkin festival.

Fall Pictures

Pennsylvania

Last week we went back east to Pennsylvania to visit with my Grandma. While we were there we kept Caitlyn busy by visiting Longwood Gardens, Strasburg Railroad, Choo Choo Barn, Ocean City, Longs Park, Dutch Wonderland, and Thomas the Train. For some reason Thomas the Train was pretty much everywhere we went. They had a Model Train Thomas at Longwood Gardens, a Thomas train at the Choo Choo Barn, a Thomas ride at Ocean City, and Thomas show at Dutch Wonderland, and then lucky for us Thomas happened to visit the Strasburg Railroad. As a result Caitlyn is now a Thomas junky.

Pennsylvania Pictures