chasing light

Sedona

My Mom, Ada & I spent a night in Sedona during my Mom's visit to Arizona after the holidays. This is the the Chapel of the Holy Cross http://www.chapeloftheholycross.com/ built into the beautiful red rock of Sedona.

Everyone told us what a cute little boy we had. Come on people!!

Poor Ada - this is pure and simple boredom after sitting in the car for about 4 hours!

Trying on Grandma's shoes.

Ada LOVES her new boots - and also loves loves running up and down little hills.

A small hike at Bell Rock in Sedona.

No comment necessary here! Simply beautiful and really cold!! This is the view from the Chapel of the Holy Cross.

a friend...and potatoes

Ada, and her friend Ellen playing, and partying at our annual Holiday party.

Want some shoes with your potatoes?

Halloween 2009

Come on!! Cutest witch ever you say? Yes, I think so too.

We went to the Harvest Festival at Ada's friend Ellen's school. It was quite the affair - TONS of activities, food, popcorn, cotton candy, games...you name it, they had it. One of the best Halloweens I've had in a long time, mostly because we got to watch the kids play and see some amazingly cute kids dressed up.

Ada loves her hat now. Adorable.

Do you remember when I mentioned a few posts back that Ada loves to walk. Well, she escaped out the front door yesterday with her glow worm when I ran to get my shoes. We found her walking down the path away from our place (it's an enclosed condominium style place, but still has access to the parking lot!). I wonder how far she would have walked without us?

I believe she spied a carved pumpkin in front of our neighbors front door, which apparently tickled her funny bone.

A good witch

Ada was mesmerized by the soldiers who came to play in a brass instrument band from Ft. Huachuca. They were really good. Ada has a thing for musicians, I think.

Ada, Peter and I having fun petting the sheep and burrow. Ada made her horsey sound "hee-hee" when she saw him.

Ellen dressed up as an Iris. One of the "cons" about not having Ada in daycare is that she doesn't get to play with other kids very often. It made us so happy last night to see Ada and Ellen running around in circles with one another squealing, laughing, screaming and having a grand time. Now, this was of course induced by oodles of cotton candy, but hey, it made me smile anyway.

Ada fishing for a new book with Dad (or as she prefers to call him, "Dat").

Ada has a thing for Clifford the Red Dog (maybe she'll meet a musician named Clifford one day?). I'm not kidding. She stalked him last night. I don't think she had ANY idea that I was following closely behind when she followed him all over the Church grounds. Gotta keep any eye on this one, folks!

A taste of the sweet life

Licking German chocolate cake crumbs off of her plate


More please...

Apple Annie's

Sam, Ada & I went on a drive to Willcox, Az today to visit Apple Annie's Pumpkin Patch with our friends, Michelle, Peter and Ellen. We enjoyed a hayride and picking out pumpkins (Sam picked out the big one next to Ellen in the wheel barrow). We picked out fresh produce (a luxury in the desert), and went to the orchard nearby for lunch and fresh apple pie. It was really nice getting outside together away from Tucson.

Time to carve some pumpkins!