Thanksgiving Time

I love this season.  The fall colors.  The leaves that start to fall off all the trees.  Where I live I only get a glance of that depending on where a good tree with leaves is, lol, but I still enjoy it.  The cool weather is perfect here in Arizona.  

Thanksgiving always reminds me of my childhood and mainly my Grandma and Grandpa's house.  Cousins would come and we had a great time playing together.  The smells of the turkey, mash potatoes, squash, etc. were so enjoyable while we played.   All the adults in the kitchen working hard while we all played.  Such great memories.  I really wanted something similar for my kids while they grow up.  To my surprise my situation is not even close to mine growing up and I don't know why I thought it would be.  Maybe I just wanted to hang onto the memory and create a similar one for my kids.  Well that's not going to happen.  They dynamics are so different with my own family is a whole new memory for my kids.  I hope I've been able to create a fun time for them so that they'll be able to have fun memories with family during this holiday.  Let us all remember and cherish family and the good times we have together.  Happy Thanksgiving!

Father and Son's camping

I like to try and go camping with my son and daughter a few times a year.  This year I have not been able to do anything till this past weekend.  Mainly it's that I don't trust my jeep anymore now that it's getting old.  I prefer going with someone just in case.  So we (my son and I and Red our dog) went on a Father and Son's camp out.  We really enjoyed our time together.  We hiked down a creek bed that was not too easy and had lots of areas that we had to climb around to keep going.  We would even pass the dog over to each other through some of the boulder climbing or tough areas.  It was a good experience for all of us.  For me just being out there with my son is important.  It gives us time to be with each other in a different way than in regular everyday life.  We make decisions together and are more united.  After our fun hike on a nice cool day, we shot a hand made bow made from tamarisk .  It was not very powerful, but we had fun just playing around with it.  These were good times and I hope we all can create them with the ones we love.  Here are some images of our time together. 

Father and son's outing