Eleven months and growing!

Young Rembrandt

This is a picture Caleb drew in school the other day during 'Free Time'. He had a little help spelling 'Ponderosa', but 'Lidojo' (Little Joe) was sounded out all by himself. Right above the word Ponderosa is a cat and a mouse. To the right of it is the map burning (from the opening credits of the tv show). Above the map is a rattle snake and to the right is a King Cobra snake. Little Joe is riding his horse and shooting coyotes. The coyotes have blood on them from where they have been shot and the bullets are laying underneath the coyotes. The rest is fairly self explanitory - the thing in front of the horse is a scorpion. Caleb is really proud of this picture and has hung it up in his bedroom over his dresser. In case you couldn't guess, he loves the TV show Bonanza.

Hiking in Cave Creek

We went hiking in Cave Creek on Labor Day. It was pretty warm (102), so we didn't go as far as we would have liked to. On the way down the mountain, we met two girls who took their dog with them to hike. They had already hiked several miles and the dog was exhausted and wouldn't go any further once she found a patch of shade. Upon closer examination, the pads on the bottom of her front paws were raw and shredded. Needless to say, we had to help because there was no way the dog could walk any further and the girls couldn't carry her down the mountain by themselves. Caleb, Myah and myself headed down to the car to get our emergency kit and Rob stayed behind to help carry the dog down. Rob carried the dog (all 100lbs of her) the rest of the way down the mountain to the parking lot.

My hero - plus it's always nice to know that if something happened to me while hiking, Rob would at least be able to drag my sorry self down the mountain for help. lol