Phoenix to Flagstaff

Twice a year I make a trip from Phoenix to Flagstaff to recruit at Northern Arizona State and I finally brought my camera to share with everyone my trip. It is only about a 2 hour trip but you travel from under 2000 ft above sea level to over 8000 ft about sea level. Below are some pictures of the transformation of the landscape from the desert to vast evergreen forests. These pics do not do not do the landscape justice but I still thought that you would enjoy.

Elevation under 2000ft

Under 4000ft

about 6000ft

Evergreet trees! 8000ft

The Who's Tommy

This weekend Heidi got tickets for us to see The Who's Tommy on Saturday night. This is a rock opera that follows The Who's album Tommy. I thought that we were going to see the Who's Tommy (not THE Who's Tommy)as in who is Tommy; a show about finding out who is Tommy. This was not what ths show was about at all so I spent most of the show trying to figure out what was going on. I am not a Who fan but reconized one song "Pinball Wizard" so I got into that song but spent the rest of the time just watching and trying to put everything together.

The show was really good, the acting, singing & dancing were all done really well it just missed something since I had no idea on what show I was watching. Next time I am going to do some reading about a show before we just go and show up.

Lilly Dog

Well now that we have our camera charger we are back to taking pictures so get ready for more updates.

It is almost a common rule that when you get a house you have to get a dog to go with that house. Well the McDows are no different. We got the house and now got the dog! Ladies and Gentlemen I give you Lilly the Dog.

Lilly is a 5 year old Australian Shephard.

She enjoys long walks to the park and

playing with her red toy.

She will get her first taste of farm life here the next couple of weeks. Until next time

What does $700 get you these days?

To the McDow's it is a man to dig a hole in the ground and have it fill up with sewage, a plumbers snake to pull roots, an optical camera to see the city's running sewer line, and the same man to fix the hole he made and tell us that we should not have our bathroom flood again within the next 5 years. Who says the dollar does go as far as it used to.

I raise my glass to everyone who has ever had sewer line problems.

Interfaith Cookout

I know that this is a little late but we were waiting on pictures because I am learning that everything you blog HAS to have a picture.





A couple weeks ago Heidi and I along with about 8 other people from our small group got together to host a cookout for the residents at Interfaith Housing. For those who remember this is the place where we first met and then proceded on to our first date and well you know the rest...we are all married and stuff.





We served a total of about 200 hotdogs and hamburgers the residents of Interfaith. Normally we don't get a chance to interact the families as we we spend most of our time setting up their apartments. Our jobs as volunteers is to do all the "grunt" work that Interfaith needs to stay up and running. The things that I end up doing most are moving couch beds, cleaning stank friedges, and bathrooms and hanging paintings under the direction of the women who get mad because my "eye level" is higher than theirs. Things that Heidi ends up doing most...decorating homes for the new residents and total apartment cleaning preping the apartment for some potential new family.





We really enjoy the work we do their and had a good time serving them. We look forward to doing this again in the spring.