National Parks

It's cool to live in a state that has several national parks and national monuments. National Parks were always something I dreamed of when we lived on the East coast and hoped to take a vacation to one day. Now we can go to places like the Grand Canyon in a day trip. We love Arizona! Here we checked out Sunset Crater National Park and Walnut Canyon in Flagstaff.

Sunset Crater is an ancient volcano that blew a long time ago and the trails are lava flows. Walnut Canyon is a very deep canyon with indian ruins about half way down. We didn't climb down though. We prefered the arial view from the top. We finished the day on the way back home with dinner at our favorite spot in Sedona.

upcycle

I've been wanting to try my hand at redoing an old dresser. I finally found a ugly cheap one. So, here's the before and after shots.

fun with rubber bands

I found some string art boards at a yard sale for 25 cents and bought one for each kid thinking it would be a fun project to do with them. On the way home, I stopped at the dollar store and grabbed a big bag of rubber bands. The string art was quickly forgotten, they've spent hours making really great designs on the boards with rubber bands.