A Hike Up the Mesa

I finally remembered to bring my camera on one of our many explorations!  We've had such a nice winter so far that we've been able to get out quite a bit.  Yesterday, the girls and I headed up the mesa by our house.  We can get on the OLD road to town very close to our house (not really a road, but wide dirt trail) and can easily follow it up to the top and look down at our house and the mountains.  Joe had taken the girls up the same way last weekend, so Gabi thought she needed to draw me a map so I would know where to go! 



A little rest stop along the way...Maya is holding the map.

 We built a couple of cairns along the way...and fixed the ones they built last weekend.

Half-way up or so...you can kinda see the "road" in the bottom right of this picture.  You can also see Dave's cows as well.



Lots of big rocks along the way.

At the top looking over the edge and our house!

Things around here have been going well.  Joe has been extremely busy with work...seems like he comes home at midnight each night and has worked through the weekends as well.  We got to spend some quality time together this morning, so that was nice.  His big deadline is this Friday, so he should be able to return to "normal" after that.  I have survived my first semester of teaching.  In fact, I'm posting this instead of grading my final exams...procrastination at its finest. ;) 

The girls are doing great!  Luckily we have all stayed healthy this year (knock on wood) and they have made lots of friends at daycare and school.  They really like to spend Fridays with Papa and Grammy.  Papa even lets Gabi drive the feed truck (very slowly of course), so she thinks that is super fun!  Gabi is starting to sound out words and is very interested in starting to spell and even read.  Maya can write her name with some assistance and still loves to color and do puzzles.  She is becoming quite the diva as well...loves to dress up and be....sassy.  oh. my.

We hope you all are doing well!  Thanks for checking in on us!  Tara