The Last Few Weeks, Hello October

Happenings in the last few weeks- Hello Fall, Hello October!

Pumpkin patch fun with friends

Corn Maze

San Diego Vacation 

Grame's Birthday!

Airplane Flying

Zoo trip 

Saying good bye to Papa

Lab Snuggles

Sibling game fun

Learning new games

New recipes

Wildlife sightings

Broken arm

We visited Mortimer Farms with our homeschool friends and had a blast...play equipment, jumpy, zip line, picking pumpkins, corn maze, tractor ride, tons of fun! http://www.mortimerfarmsaz.com/

 Strawberry picking....and eating!

San Diego Zoo trip

Fort Rosecrans looking out to San Diego over the beautiful water.

 We love you Papa, you will forever be in our hearts and missed.

 The best kind of sleepover...

Game time

New Recipe - Pumpkin Sweet Potato Bisque - http://www.laaloosh.com/2011/09/19/pumpkin-sweet-potato-bisque/ 

We did swap out the greek yogurt for coconut milk instead and it turned out great!

Most our ingredients came from our local farmers at the farmers market!

Prescott Farmers Market : http://www.prescottfarmersmarket.org/

The boys playing video games or our son attempting to. 

Our son broke his arm from falling off a slide at the park...he's in his temporary cast here and waiting until next weeks visit to the Pediatric Ortho specialist for his permanent one.  His agenda is to rest, elevate, and ice for the next few days. They want the swelling to go down before re x-raying it and doing something permanent.

The dogs are having such issues not being able to snuggle close and having to stay away from the arm! 

October has been a whirlwind so far...we are looking forward to the upcoming holiday months when school slows and we can focus on family and breathe a bit from all the activities!

Falconry Class

Saturday we spent the day up in Flagstaff. It was the Flagstaff Festival of Science. We had pre registered for a Falconry class specifically for our son, a lover of all birds especially raptors.

The nearly 3 hour class was amazing and entailed: biology, history, governmental policy, cultural heritage and live demo's with the birds. 

Our son was in heaven. He's only 12 but has talked off and on through the last few years about career in working with birds whether it be at a zoo, in conservation efforts or even running a bird rescue. He soaks up any information about birds he can.


There were so many awesome classes and events offered, next year we have plans to make several trips up to join in on many more events-
Science Festival - Flagstaff

 Beautiful day for a beautiful drive to the mountains.

The group that put on the Falconry/Raptor class -
International Raptor and Falconry Center

They brought in 3 birds - Finley, Kieran and Coral. A kestrel and two Harris hawks. 
Meet the Birds

 A family project - our son wants to build some nesting boxes to help the kestrels in our area.

 Kieran and Coral

We didn't take too many photos but just enjoyed the experience, learning and seeing the beautiful birds. Our son said it was a great day and he definitely wants to explore learning more and even wants to start saving part of his allowance to donate to help the facility, and the birds.