Marci's Village

Prescott - a few more

 

 

The house - simple but comfortable enough

 

 

 
Going out to dinner

 

 

Staying in for dinner

 

Our favorite ice cream shop 

 

 

Cartwheels at the main plaza

Lynx Lake - Prescott 2011

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

We hiked around this beautiful lake (an almost two-hour walk), and stopped to eat lunch after exploring. Phillip and Maya fished for crawdads and got a huge one. Normally they like to catch and release them after a few hours, but this particular one seemed really unhappy to be kept in a bucket. Phillip then decided to release the little creature back into the lake after a few minutes.

 

 

The two pictures above were taken by Maya, our little photographer-in-training.

Now, my favorite picture of the day. In the woods, eating our dessert:

 
 

Prescott 2011- Watson Lake

I will probably have to break this down into a few posts, since I haven't been to work in three weeks and I should probably try not to be late on my first day back. Pine trees, wind, clouds, trails, lakes, huge crawdads, rain... we had it all in these four days we spent in Prescott visiting Grandma and Grandpa.

Should we start with Watson Lake? The rocks are absolutely stunning. We were caught in heavy rain, otherwise I think we would have spent all day in the area. It has the type of natural beauty that our children had not experienced before. And the boulders were fun to climb too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pinetop 2011

 
I want to make sure to write the year on the title of this post because I know in my heart that we will be back. The cabin, the trip, the hikes, sharing this time with friends, watching the kids playing together, and everything else surpassed my expectations.

There are so many moments I want to remember, so many conversations, so many stories, and so many laughs (Silmara and Dani reading the various Christmas cards left at the cabin, for example). There were many tender moments among the kids -- Phillip and Maya really enjoyed following Jonathan around and "taking care" of him. The abundance of pictures of them together is not a coincidence.

Thank you friends for being part of our lives. As you all know well, our children do not have any young cousins. Sharing time with other kids is what they love to do. Watching their friendship (and ours) grow in these last few days makes my heart overflow with gratitude. Thank you!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This makes me hungry all over again! Danielle's enchiladas!!! We combined it with "taco night" for the kids.

 

 

 

 

 

Ice Cave Trail -- cool mist at the end of the trail. The cave is closed by rocks.

 

 
 

 

 

The grill man

 

 

 

Cody - Maya's sweet horse

 

Max - Phillip's stubborn horse - Phillip had to stir him back when he decided to take a long time drinking in the river.

 

Snowball had a mind of her own. Stopped to eat numerous times and knew well I did not have any control over her. The wrangler kept telling me "kick hard, you won't hurt her" in his cute cowboy accent.

 

Sorry I cut Titanic's head from the picture. A big and very obedient horse.

 

Danielle's horse kicked Harlan's horse because Harlan's horse was getting a little too close for comfort. I am glad I wasn't the one right behind her horse at that moment -- my horse was stuck eating.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Mom, can I hug the cow?"

 

Springs Trail - # 633 - their favorite spot to play with crawdads

 

 

 

 

After a walk in the rain