Here we are in the Chiricahua's
on Memorial Day. We stayed in Rustler's Park.. apparently the rustlers used to drive stolen cows all the way up this mountain to the meadow and rebrand them and drive them back down.
If I were a cow, I would rebel, it was a long haul up to this place in a car .. on four hooves, forget it!!!

What a fabulous place, this camping area was at about 8000 feet. The camping is in the forest, but just below us was a meadow filled with wild IRIS!

It was amazing..

There was lots of wild life (although we didn't see any bears!)



Here is a fawn, we saw it and 3 other dear.. the next picture is of Max chasing the fawn.
He claims he was going to make friends with it and perhaps bring it home.















In case you didn't believe me before, here is a picture of the wild IRIS in the meadow.














We took a good hike up the mountain and discovered we could see the wild fire burning to the east of us.














A bush filled with lady bugs ( many of which made the trip back to Tucson with us.)



















A historic fire watch tower














and thousands and thousands of pine cones!!!!!

Boys riding on their bicycles!! YAHOO!! We are working on that two wheel scene.

Whipple Observatory (see that little road??) you have to drive it to get up here -- it is a long way but what a view huh???

Pima County Fair ( Daddy and Max are in the front car of that roller coaster!!)

Ruby Arizona (March)

Here we are at the Civil War Reeactment at Picacho Peak!

Papa and Grandma come for a visit.

It has been a wet spring, the wash is really running and there is TONS of snow on the mountain!

Zane was a SARSEF science fair winner.
He won two awards, one from Tucson Electric Power and one from Sky Island Alliance.
Apparently every one was impressed with his project, "Why don't Birds get shocked when they sit on a telephone wire??"


Max did qualify for SARSEF but he didn't win any awards with his project "Where do Fibonacci Numbers Occur in Nature?"; there was some heart break over this, especially when Zane got a $25 check!!!

Here are the kids (Addie, Max, Zane, Kaylie and Aden) on our tour of ASARCO Mine.

This is the big loader truck and below is a picture of the copper extruder machines, they are like giant mixers that somehow get copper out of all that dirt.

Here is the mine, it is HUGE, not terribly beautiful, but useful.

Here we are at the AIR SHOW!! YAHOO!!!


Zane working on gunning down the crowd.

Max also worked on his gunning skills.

Yes, that is a P51 Mustang !!!!!

The Maxwells also made an apperance, we were on our way out as they were on their way in!!