Rally Day

Arizona is in the unfortunate place of being in a budget crisis. For a booming state the past few years, it is embarrassing that this happened but it did. Anyway, they are looking to make cuts, big cuts in education. This is not good for me or the many other teachers out there. So today we went to our first rally. It was held in downtown Phoenix at the State Capital. Wayne, the girls, Cari and I headed down to show our support for not cutting education. I have to say I feel good about actually doing something and not sitting on the sidelines. Here are a few photos of the day.

Going Green

We have been diligently working in our greenhouse the past few months. We have planted many different things such as carrots, lettuce, tomatos, green beans, sunflowers, cilantro, basil and oregano. After much hard work, we were finally able to eat some of the fruits of our labor. The lettuce is ready for harvesting! We celebrated this past Monday night with a delicious dinner of lettuce wraps!Then the following night by having a nice yummy salad. The babies and Jessi have truly been enjoying this little side project, diligently watering and checking almost daily on the new happenings inside. Taylor gets a little overzealous after watching Wayne pick weeds and thought a few plants were weeds and pulled them! We have decided to keep an eagle eye on her while we are in there. It has been fun to watch their reactions to everything growing and helping them to understand where food actually comes from. Here are a few pictures of the greenhouse and what is inside.

In this picture you can see the tomato plants (back left), green beans (back right), lettuce and carrots (center).

Besides gardening we have been enjoying the Arizona winter by hiking and daytrips. We went down to the Gila River to do some exploring one day. We took this drive down a long wash and at the end we came to a nice beach area to play and picnic with thr babies. Enjoy some photos of our day.