Sledding in Arizona

We loaded up the car Friday morning and headed north to Flagstaff to play in the snow. There is an area that is strictly for sledding with small, medium, and large hills, a place selling hot drinks and BBQ, a campfire burning, and an area to build snowmen. The snow was beautiful and Bryce had fun playing in it. His favorite thing to do was fall down and roll around in the snow. Wayne was a daredevil and sledded down the big hill and after taking a few hard crashes, will be paying for it today. Afterwards, we headed back down here to the valley and to our nice 60 degree weather.

Getting geared up...

Heading up the hill to sled...

Sledding...

Playing in the snow...

Wayne sledding down the big hill...

Beautiful view of the mountains...
Trying to make a snow angel...

Building Frosty the Snowman...

Who knew a plastic spoon could make such a great shovel?

Enjoying a cup of hot cocoa...

Rock Chalk Jayhawk

You read correctly. We cheered on the KU Jayhawks at the Insight Bowl on New Years Eve. (Please note, both Bryce & Wayne wore their purple K-State hats.)

It was neat to see so many Kansas license plates


Trying to keep the sun off his face. It was a toasty 73 degrees at the start of the game. Bryce is working on polishing off a bag of kettle corn.

Beautiful Arizona evening

Wearing our KU blue (but we still bleed purple)

Xmas House

This is a house in our neighborhood with the coolest lights we've ever seen...

Christmas in Surprise

We went out to our town's Christmas party this weekend and enjoyed seeing the Hot Air Balloon's, riding the ponies, and petting man eating...

and then the non man-eating animals....

Giddy-up horsey

Carousel ride

Lovin' Life

Bryce decided one day after school that Life Cereal sounded like a pretty good snack so, he raided the pantry and helped himself to a box of cereal...

Hot Air Balloons

All things Halloween

Bryce has had fun celebrating Halloween all this month. He had a Fall party at his school last week and the kids wore their costumes and got to decorate Halloween cookies and participate in a cake walk and different activities in each of the classrooms. Then last weekend, we went to the pumpkin farm and played in the corn maze and picked our pumpkins. (It was hard to get into the pumpkin picking mood though since it was 95 degrees out!) Last night, we took Bryce to GlendOberfest at the ranch where he got to trick-or-treat, go on an Egg Haunt (like an Easter egg hung only with orange & black eggs) and play games.

Decorating cookies

At the pumpkin farm

Playing in a "corn box"

Pumpkin carving

Trick-or-Treat

"Haunting" for eggs

Playing games