Day trip to Payson

Martin wanted to take us up to Payson for a day of adventure. We started off by having a picnic lunch at a little park close to town. Then he took us to Tonto National Forest to see the largest natural travertine bridge in the world. After an ice cream stop to refuel we finished the day exploring Woody Canyon Lake.

Graduation!

Hadley had a sweet graduation celebration at school. All the returning students have red caps, the young man in the blue is headed for kindergarden. They did a couple of performances then the teacher called them one by one to receive their diploma's. Hadley was really excited about having cake.

Mothers Day

This Mothers Day Hadley and I attended a performance of The Wizard of Oz at a community youth theatre.  They put on full scale productions featuring actors ages 8-19.  Hadley so loved Dorothy she couldn't wait to give her a hug.  She was pretty leery of the Wicked Witch but after meeting her came to understand there was a young girl under all that makeup.

Vacation

We just returned from a week in Santa Barbara, where we had lots of fun visiting friends and playing at the beach.

Zoo Day!

Hadley and I had an opportunity to visit the Phoenix Zoo.  She loves animals and knows a great deal of facts about them from watching her favorite program "Wild Kratts", to which she kept referring to all day. We were there no more than 30 minutes when she took a spill and scraped her knee pretty bad.  I had been waiting in the shade when she ran up to tell me.  She wasn't crying & just a little stunned. After that it was time to check out all the animals!

Checking herself out in the mirror (above)

Then laughing about it (below)

The following pictures were taken when most if not all the people left the zoo.

The animals were really out and about then.

These road runners where at my feet running around.

This owl standing a few feet to the left of the road runners.

Just didn't seem to mind us at all.

Beautiful wild turkey... good eats.