April 1st, my pink claret cups bloomed!
4/3, I went to Tucson Botanical Gardens and Pima County Cooperative Extension gardens. Nathan's soccer team had their 1st home game against Red Rock Elementary. He wore #35. They lost 1-2.
4/4, My June Noon hybrid bloomed. I also went to Tohono Chul Park.
4/5, Nathan's soccer team had a home game against Academy Del Sol, Star Valley and they lost 0-2.
4/6, My flying saucer bloomed. My windshield got cracked :( Nathan's soccer team had an away game at Academy Del Sol, Roger Rd and they won 14-0! Nathan wore the #3 jersey.
Easter was 4/9. Nathan now knows there is no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny and that mom makes his Easter baskets. He had a nice basket full of otter pops, some books, candy, etc... He and I went to church together while Paul went to his church. Then we took a drive to see the flowers at Round Mountain Park in Globe. We also got to eat at Grimaldi's in Gilbert. The flowers along the way were amazing as well.
4/10, I went to see the irises at Tucson Botanical Gardens, Green Things Nursery and Pima Prickly Park.
4/11, Nathan's soccer team played an away game at Academy Del Sol, Star Valley. They lost 3-5. I drove through Saguaro National Park on the way home and caught the sunset there.
4/12, I went to Pima County Cooperative Extension Gardens, Catalina State Park to see the mariposa lilies, Oro Valley Hospital to see the cactus flowers, the Lambert Lane claret cups and my own white cactus and flying saucer bloomed in our yard.
4/13 My Argentine Giant Big Bertha bloomed. I also went to Pima Prickly Park.
4/15, I photographed the prickly pears in the River Rd median. I am the crazy median lady taking pictures every year!
4/16, My Argentine Giant Big Bertha bloomed.
4/17, I went to Tucson Botanical Gardens and Pima County Cooperative Extension Gardens. Nathan's soccer team had a home game against Academy Del Sol, Roger Rd and won 10-1! Nathan even got a goal!
4/18, I went to the Reid Park Rose Garden and Pima Prickly Park.
4/19, I went to Bach's Cactus Nursery, Pima County Cooperative Extension Gardens, Green Things Nursery and Pima Prickly Park.
4/21, I went to the Pima County Cooperative Extension Gardens, Pima Prickly Park and Tucson Botanical Gardens.
4/24, My First Light and June Noon cacti bloomed. I went to Pima Prickly Park, Pima County Cooperative Extension Gardens, Reid Park Rose Garden and to Tucson Botanical Gardens to see the irises. Nathan's soccer team had an away game at Red Rock Elementary and they won 3-2!
4/26, I photographed the saguaro flowers on a low arm across the street from Mountain View High School. Nathan's soccer team had a home game against Red Rock Elementary and they tied 1-1.
4/27, I went to Bach's Cactus Nursery, Pima Prickly Park, Pima County Cooperative Extension Gardens and to Tucson Botanical Gardens to see the irises. At Pima Prickly Park, the stars of the show this day were the cholla! There were so many in bloom and this park has every color imaginable. I've never seen so much cholla together in one place. The prickly pears were a close second. The unique colors I saw this year were amazing.
4/30, It reached 100 degrees! Yuk!
5/1, I went to Pima Prickly Park, Tohono Chul Park to see the pink ocotillo and their unique prickly pears, Pima County Cooperative Extension Gardens and Lowe's to see the flowers. Nathan's soccer team had an away game at Legacy Traditional, NW Tucson. They lost 1-5.
5/2, Nathan wasn't feeling good so he stayed home from school and I took him to the doctor. His throat was hurting. Strep test came back negative. She noticed wheezing and asked if he ever had asthma, which he hasn't. But that is another thing we have to keep an eye on. We treated with over the counter meds and eventually the bacterial test came back negative so it must have been some kind of viral infection or allergies (pollen).
5/3, Nathan decided to go to school so that he could play in their soccer game. It was an away game at Coolidge Junior High School and I also drove Kayden and Berto. They won 6-2. Earlier that day I went to Saguaro National Park where I saw a deer (only had my phone with me, though).
5/4, Nathan's soccer team had their last game of the season away at Desert Wind Middle School. Once again I drove Kayden and Berto. They won 3-2! The team went to Barro's in Maricopa after the game to celebrate. Kayden wasn't feeling well and ended up throwing up in my car. That was a fun hour and a half ride home! So their record for the season was 5 wins, 5 losses and 1 tie.
5/5, I went to Tucson Botanical Gardens and Pima County Cooperative Extension Gardens.
Well, we thought soccer was over and then we got the news that they made the playoffs. The playoffs were in Glendale on 5/6. They lost 0-4 and Nathan was pretty upset that he barely got to play that day. He didn't get to play as often as he wanted the whole season. It was a coed team and 4 girls had to be on the field at all times. Many of them played defense like Nathan so he got less playing time. After the game, we went to Grimaldi's in Peoria. Then we went to a George Strait concert at State Farm Stadium in Glendale. Chris Stapleton and Little Big Town opened. They played long sets. When George finally got on stage it was already pretty late. We ended up leaving before the concert was over because it was getting so late. We were so tired from the soccer game earlier in the day and we still had to drive a couple of hours home.
5/8, I went to Pima County Cooperative Extension Gardens, Pima Prickly Park and to see the saguaro flowers on the saguaro across from Mountain View High School again.
5/10, I went to Tucson Botanical Gardens and to Pima County Cooperative Extension Gardens to see the hollyhocks.
5/11, My hot pink cactus bloomed with 2 flowers. I went to Bach's Cactus Nursery where their ironwood tree was in bloom. I also went back to see the saguaro across from Mountain View High School.
5/12, I went to the Pima County Cooperative Extension Gardens and to see the saguaro across from Mountain View High School. . Nathan had his music recital at school that evening. He wasn't happy about going, but it was part of his guitar class grade. Only 3 out of 10 in his class showed up! He did a great job, though.
Mother's Day was on 5/14. Paul made chicken kebabs for me, per my request and he got me flowers. Nathan went to church with me. My mom got me 2 massage gift certificates.
5/15, My June Noon bloomed. I went to Pima Prickly Park, Pima County Cooperative Extension Gardens to see the hollyhocks, Tucson Botanical Gardens and to see the saguaro across from Mountain View High School.
5/16, I went to Pima Prickly Park.
5/17, I went to Pima County Cooperative Extension Gardens to see the hollyhocks. I went to Starbucks at River and Stone and photographed the saguaro flowers there. I found a crested saguaro at River and Sabino Rd. I went to Sabino Canyon and it was amazing with all of the flowers in bloom (prickly pear, cholla, saguaros, palo verde trees). I didn't have a lot of time at Sabino Canyon so I stayed close to the visitor center, but I had plenty to take pictures of!
5/18, My hot pink cactus bloomed. Nathan soccer team got their awards at school. He got a certificate for Most Versatile. He played pretty much every position during the season, but mostly defense. I went back to Sabino Canyon and took the tram up this time. Then I walked down most of the way until about stop #3 and got back on the tram. I saw lots of cool lizards.
5/19, My hot pink cactus, white cactus and June Noon all bloomed!
5/22, I went to Tucson Botanical Gardens and Pima County Cooperative Extension Gardens.
5/23, I went to Tohono Chul Park, Pima County Cooperative Extension Gardens and Pima Prickly Park. It was also Nathan's last day of 7th grade! He got an Honor Roll certificate. He's happy to be done at Academy of Math & Science. Next year he will be going to Legacy.
5/24, I went to Tohono Chul Park, Tucson Botanical Gardens and Pima County Cooperative Extension Gardens.
5/25, Right outside our garage was a gecko. It looked like it was surfing because it was on a leaf. I don't think I have ever seen a gecko like that in our yard before. My Apricot Glow bloomed. I went to Tohono Chul Park, Tucson Botanical Garden, Pima County Cooperative Extension Gardens and Green Things Nursery. Lots of cactus flowers were blooming at Tohono Chul Park. Unfortunately, they had many of them blocked off due to Cooper's Hawk nesting. I snuck in and took some quick pictures anyway. I was shocked they would keep visitors away from all of those blooms. That area was adjacent to the nesting area and I think would have been safe for visitors. Or, they could have moved some of the pots prior before the blooms because it was evident several days prior that they would all be blooming together in just a few days.
5/26, My June Noon hybrid and my purple hedgehog bloomed.
5/27, My white cactus, purple hedgehog and First Light bloomed.
5/29, I started doing 10k steps including 30 minutes on the elliptical again.
My grandma turned 105 on 6/2! We were not able to go to Chicago this year to celebrate with her. Maybe later in the year. We're getting ready to go on our own vacation up to Canada the end of the month (if we get Nathan's passport card in time).
6/3, Nathan did a baseball lesson at The Hitting Factory since he wants to join the baseball team at Legacy next year. He's never played on a baseball team before so he has a lot to learn.
