Happy Mother's Day!

Nothing says Mother's Day like a ride on an old steam engine train. Today we traveled to Williams and took a ride on the Grand Canyon Railway's Vegetable Oil Powered Steam Engine. The railway was having special train displays, cabooses and model trains set up since May 8th was National Train Day. (I'm sure you all celebrated in you own ways...) Olive of course loved all the excitement. "More Trains! More Trains!" was the mantra of the day. We had a lot of fun and I'm glad to be a mother to such a sweet little girl.

Happy Mother's Day to all of the mothers out there, whether you be a mother to a two legged creature or four legged one!

Playing with Hammy

Olive and Hamilton have always had somewhat of an adversarial relationship - until the last few weeks. Olive is discovering that Hamilton is not such a bad dog. The other night we played in the hallway with Hammy which included Olive covering him up with a blanket and petting him. Hamilton is such a good dog, and lets Olive do pretty much anything she wants to him. We are lucky to have such a friendly pooch.

Cousin Tracie!

My cousin Tracie came out for a visit this past weekend. It was so great to see her and take her into the canyon. We had a wonderful time and Olive is still asking for Tracie. As you can see from our pictures we took a little hike into the canyon and then did some sightseeing on the rim. Thanks for coming out Tracie! Come again anytime!


Tracie looked like the guy in the warning sign but we decided to proceed with the hike anyway.

I also didn't look so good.

Backyard Fun

Today was the first really beautiful day of Spring. We celebrated by going for a bike ride around the Village and playing in the backyard. Olive's new favorite backyard toy is a slide we found at a yard sale down the street.

We all enjoyed the sunshine and getting to wear some summer clothes, but we had to laugh when we saw the forecast is calling for snow later this week.