Emmett's New School

Emmett is attending the Tucson Country Day School for pre-kindergarten. He still misses his Four Freedoms Florida school (and his mom's miss the wonderful teachers there) but we are all getting comfortable with the new school. This is a picture from his first performance and lunch party at the school. In the performance, the younger kids were helped by 4th graders. This is Emmett with his 4th grader, neither one of them looks overly thrilled. The performance was cute, relatively managed chaos!

Emmett perked up when it was time to check out the buffet line :) Harrison really wants to go to school too, but with his "bubby". So we'll see how he feels when he turns 3 next Spring.

El Tour De Tucson

My brother rode in the El Tour De Tucson this year. It is a 109 mile bike race that has been in Tucson since as far as I can remember. We are all very proud of his commitment and his top 50% finish out of over 10,000 riders! The boys were excited to see him at a corner stop in the race. We waited very early in the morning in some chilly weather. Can you tell they think their Uncle Marcus is very cool?

Our hawk!

This hawk lives in a tree somewhere near our front yard. He sits on this fence almost everyday. I think it's a Coopers Hawk, very impressive!

Emmett started soccer

This is a picture from his first practice. He's playing on a non-competitive team of under 6 year olds, called the "Wild Things". It is really cute and he is enjoying it so far. We do a lot of practicing in the back yard. One of his classmates is on the team and they are little buddies.

Dining in!

A few pics of the boys in the dining room. You can see the north side yard out the window. We plan to remove the charlie bars and update the window some day.

Gardening in the Desert

A few glimpses into Kirsten's successful efforts to garden in the harsh conditions of the Sonoran desert. We have lots of ambition to transform our yards, but the front porch is a great place to start.