September iPhone Pics

Girl Scouts fun!!

Creating her own helium

The fish

How cute are they!

Goofball

Sydders and Papa

Syd's new button on her tooth to help pull this guy into the spot where he should be!

Good ol' Addie Gator

Caught Syd stroking her sisters hair and face to put her to sleep. Then snuck a goodnight kiss.

We called Papa and she said "Why does my nose look like a pig?"

Swim practice!

Tucson Zoo Fun

Ami's Birthday Party

We were invited to Ami's super fun gymnastics world birthday party. I was pretty excited to see how Addison would like the things to do there since she's never taken gymnastics. They both had so much fun and Sydney was doing flips into the pit!

Prescott Fun

Daddy went golfing, so the girls went antiquing with me! We went to a few places and then went out to breakfast at Chris's favorite stop St. Michaels.

Found two items from an old barn in Prescott

Shopping and breakfast is hard work

There was a huge balloon festival and the balloons flew right over our heads

Rainbow Trout Farm

On the way home from Slide Rock, we popped into the Rainbow Trout farm to catch our dinner. I barely got a picture before Sydney already had one on her line!

The first one snagged her bait, so Dad had to put the bait on her line again.

Addie's turn and she caught one!

Dad trying to get the fish off the hook

Look at all those trout in the water

I tried to ask if the guys who gut the fish would be willing to fillet them for us as well. They quickly said "nope!"

Back home we went and we looked up a gazillion youtube videos on how to filet these little rainbow trouts. It is NOT as easy as it looks and there are a lot of teeny tiny little bones in it. Apparently everyone on earth has sharper knives than we do because we butchered these bad boys. Still super yummy (what we were able to salvage).

Slide Rock, AZ

While driving to the Prescott house the back way from Sedona, we came across Slide Rock and quickly penciled in a trip there over a weekend in September. That weekend quickly came and we drove up to Prescott and had mini adventures planned for the Rodeo weekend.

Slide Rock State Park took its name from a natural water slide formed by the slippery bed of Oak Creek. Tall red rock formations that are typical of the region also surround the park, which contains a 43-acre working apple farm. The land was first developed by Frank L. Pendley, who arrived in the canyon in 1907 and acquired title to the land under the Homestead Act in 1910. Pendley developed an irrigation system (which is still in use today) and planted an apple orchard in 1912. The state completed a road through the canyon in 1914, and Pendley built rustic tourist cabins in 1933 that in part survive today. Several films were shot in the area: Angel and the Badman (1946), Broken Arrow (1950), Drum Beat (1954), and Gun Fury (1953). The park was purchased by Arizona State Parks from the Arizona Parklands Foundation on July 10, 1985, and dedicated as Slide Rock State Park in October 1987.

Now let me just say that this water was absolutely FRIGID! I would put my toes in and my toes would physically ache and throb from the chilly water. Now, once your body went completely numb, it wasn't so bad, but that initial dip takes a very courageous person.

So cold!

Most of the people were sliding down the little waterfalls. Syd, Chris and Addison were dying to try it. I......was not. I happily volunteered to monitor and photograph. It was soooo cold!

FREEZING

WHOOOOOPSY Daisy

Dad and Addison's turn...as Dad catches his breath from the chill

Here comes the dip

EEEEK!

Sister tries to save Addie

One more time for Sydney

Hiking on the rocks

Picnic lunch

Before we left, we ventured to another section of the rocks and Mom actually got in with Addison. There is good reason that they call it Slide Rock, it's covered in mossy goo. I saw several people slip and fall onto the rocks, it was actually kinda scary. Once you fall, hard to get back up again. We played in the water a while longer and then hiked back up and down the trail back to our car.

Syd the photographer