Spring Flowers

 2/13: I went up to photograph the snow on Mount Lemmon

2/16: I went to Catalina State Park.

2/17: We celebrated our 21st anniversary.  

2/20: I went to Tucson Botanical Gardens.

3/1: I went to Picacho Peak.  I hiked the Sunset Trail.  There was not a super bloom like last year, but there were wildflowers here and there and there was one area that had quite a bit of flowers.  

3/4: I went to Tucson Botanical Gardens and Green Things Nursery.  

3/4 and 3/5:  Nathan had tryouts for the school soccer team.  We found out later in the week that once again he didn't make the team.  He made the intramural team, but he decided he did not want to participate on that team.  We don't understand why he didn't make the boys volleyball team or the coed soccer teams this year when he was on both teams last year at his previous school.  God must have a reason, though.

3/6: Nathan ended Q3 with all As and 1 B.  The B was in English was an 89, very close to an A.  In fact, he had an A in the class up until the last few days when the teacher put in a grade from earlier in the quarter that brought his quarter grade down to a B.  Last quarter he got straight As and he was so close to getting straight As again for Q3.  He got As in Science, Coding, Literature, Social Studies and Geometry.

Spring Break started 3/8.  Nathan had a half day of school.  We didn't plan a trip this year because Paul had to work most of the week.  However, we left the night of 3/8 to go to Anza Borrego Desert State Park the next day.  We stayed in El Centro the night of 3/8.  3/9 we went to see the wildflowers of Anza Borrego Desert State Park.  There was one area of the park that was full of  flowers.  The rest of the park seemed to have scattered flowers.  On the way home we drove through El Centro again.  We were fortunate to catch the end of the Blue Angels performing so we pulled over at a rest stop to take some pictures.  Unfortunately, the next day I woke up at 5:30 with severe vertigo.  I had never had vertigo before.  However, it was so bad that we called an ambulance and I spent the day at the hospital.  They ran some tests, mostly focusing on some abdominal/female issues I was experiencing, but all tests came back normal.  I was released in the late afternoon even though I still had the dizziness and nausea.  So most of the Spring Break I rested and tried to recover from the vertigo.  By the end of the week I was feeling a lot better.  Paul decided to take that Thursday off, 3/14.  We took a drive to see the poppies and wildflowers at Peridot Mesa.  They weren't as plentiful as last year, but they were still beautiful.  It was a nice, cool day with beautiful clouds mixed with the blue sky.  We mostly had the place to ourselves.  Then we went to Odysea.  We saw DK and Kim there from church.  They were celebrating Kim's birthday.  Unfortunately, we found out that Jalapeno the pufferfish passed away two weeks prior to our visit.  There was another pufferfish there named Potato/Lemon Pepper.  We ate at Grimaldi's before returning home.  

3/19: I went to Tucson Botanical Gardens.

3/20: I went to Catalina State Park.  I hiked the Canyon Loop Trail and just off that trail there was a field of poppies and other wildflowers.  I also hiked the Nature Trail.

3/26: Nathan and I  went to church for the Lord's Supper.  

3/29: Nathan had no school on Good Friday so we went to Bartlett Lake to see the wildflowers.  The flowers were plentiful and it's always cool to see the white and pink poppies there.  We also ate a new to us Grimaldi's in Scottsdale.  

3/31:  We went to church for Easter service and then ate lunch at Cheesecake Factory.  I also bought a pack of Honey Baked Ham slices for myself since I am the only one who eats it.  I made deviled eggs the next day.  

4/1:  It was another rainy day, but I went to see the claret cups on Lambert Lane, some more claret cups and a couple of Argentine Giant Big Berta's over by Oro Valley Hospital.  Then I went to Pima County Cooperative Extension Gardens.  I was going to make another stop or two, but it started raining again.