Thelma and Louis, I mean Me and Lori, and her brother-in-law Mike decided to conquer the Grand Canyon. We started Fri. morning at 5:45am. We hiked down South Kiabab trail to Phantom Ranch, filled up our water, had a bagel and hot chocolate and started up North Rim. On the way we hit every type of weather you can imagine. There was sleet, sun for 10min. (just long enough for us to get hot and strip off our layers.) Then it rained, hailed and snowed off and on for the next 35 miles.
It was SO much fun though. Lori and I took pictures along the way, mostly to bug Mike (AKA Mr.Grumpy Pants). It was so beautiful! Especially the North Rim. There were these BRIGHT PINK leaves that looked amazing. I have never seen anything like it. There was fog, but just a little....Just enough to make it even more breath taking.
We hiked for about 20 & 1/2 hours, but it took us just under 22 hours to finish, because we stopped at Phantom Ranch for about 30min. coming down, and about an hour before we headed back up. Our goal was 20 hours, so we are pretty happy with our results.
I had such an AMAZING, FUN time! (But...I have been told I could have fun in a cardboard box.) Lori and I are already planning our next adventure. We are just so much alike and love to try new things and challenge ourselves. We keep each other young. I am so glad I took this challenge and conquered it. It was such an AWESOME experience and adventure! Thanks Lori! And thanks Mike for keeping us on schedule. If it wasn't for you Lori and I would probably still be down there taking pictures. And last, but certainly not least, THANKS HONEY for all your support while I was training and taking care of everything while I was gone. You are the most amazing husband and father! I LOVE U MORE THAN I CAN EXPRESS!
Monday, November 16, 2009
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Halloween 10-31-09 Tucson, Arizona
We had a FUN Halloween! We invited some friends over, Maya and Jack Porrino, and Jen, Steve and baby Victoria Hoy. We ate and then dressed the kids up and went TRICK-OR-TREATING. Briggs was a Grim Reaper. Chris painted his face and did a fabulous job as always. Brooke was an ugly witch with a wart on her nose. She was very specific that she did not want to be a nice pretty witch she wanted to be a green, scary, ugly witch WITH A WART ON HER NOSE. I thought she turned out pretty good. I crimped her hair, teased it, and sprayed it black. Then of course I painted her green all over and most importantly made a wart on her nose with eyeliner. She loved it! Mason was a swamp monster. He loved his costume! Maddox was afraid of it for the longest time. Mason would put it on just to torment him. He would come running over and hide behind me saying "He gonna get me mom, I scared I scared!" It was a little mean of Mason, but Maddox sounded so cute it I cracked me up. Luckily I was on the ball this year and bought their costumes early....So by the time Halloween came Maddox was wearing Mason's costume around. Maddox fell in love with this Thomas the Train costume. I tried and tried to get him to be Yoda (just because I had the costume already), but he wanted this train costume so bad I bought it for him. Halloween night we go to put it on him and he wouldn't put it on, he wanted to be Yoda. So Maddox ended up being Yoda. So if anyone wants a Brand new Train costume let me know. I was glad he was Yoda though, because he looked so darn cute in it. Great Halloween! Cheesecake, Chocolate, and great company, it doesn't get better than that.
10/29/09 Red Ribbon Week (Spirit Week) Rattlesnake Ridge Elementary
The kids had spirit week the week before Halloween. One of the days was the 60's. Brooke asked me what I wore in the 60's. I told her I wasn't alive in the 60's. She said are you sure? She says some of the funniest things. I was taking them to school and I looked in the mirror and started complaining about my wrinkles around my eyes. She said "Mom those don't bother me at all, but that mole on your face bugs me aren't you going to get that thing taken care of??" She is so funny, she keeps us laughin'. Anyway, back to spirit week. The kids and I did Tie-Die shirts, which the kids had a blast doing. They loved the shirts, but were bummed, because they didn't have anything with the PEACE sign on them. So when they went to bed I decided to find some old pants and decorate them with peace signs and I put flowers on Brooke's. They were so surprised and SOOO appreciative. It was alot of fun and I think they looked great! Chris had to leave for work before he got to see them all dressed up, so he wanted pictures. I'm so glad we took pictures, because they turned out so cute!
Lori and I got some couples to hike Mt. Boldy with us for part of our training for Grand Canyon Rim2Rim2Rim. It was so much fun and it was SO BEAUTIFUL. I had my sister with me which made it even more fun! It was a little cold at the top, but so amazing! All those in the pictures are Reese and Marinda (my awesome sis. and hubby), Bruce and Shawna, Rocky and Lori, Tim and Leslie (Lori sister and husband), Monty and Robby, and me and my husband in spirit. Yeah, I was the 11th wheel...my hubby had to work. We had a great time though and hope to do it again soon, maybe next time I'll have my hubby with me.
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