Lucky baby

This little sweetie gets to play with her Mimi all day. We are all so lucky to have her here.

Rodeo Break

We went to the rodeo parade with the beautiful AJ this morning. All this time in Tucson, I've never gone before this year. I really liked it. It's like the counterpoint to the All Soul's Procession. It happens early in the morning, in South Tucson, and everyone is alive. It's also completely non-mechanized, which is cool. There were horses, bands, and lots of carriages and wagons.

The parade totally did it's job and made me want to go to the rodeo. It's easy to forget living in midtown that Tucson really does have a strong ranching tradition still and that there are a lot of people who are perfectly comfortable on horseback. I especially liked seeing the little kids riding horses. I'm so impressed with them. 

My favorite part, of course, were the highschool marching bands. Desert View band was playing "Rodeo". I'm a sucker for a drumline everytime.

Saturday Morning

I love these two so much. After this there was sausage, eggs, and coffee. And more Kung Fu.

Muddy baby

Doesn't want to take a bath.

CRM at home

We have this spot in the backyard that really needs a hole, so we looked around and hired the best.

She comes with her own equipment. There was a bulldozer, a dump truck, a mixing bowl, a bucket, and a shovel. She moved that dirt so fast, you'd think she's been doing this for a long time. The whole operation was even overseen by an archaeologist, so no cultural resources were disturbed. 

She dug her hole, then filled it in, then shifted rocks from one truck to the other until she got chilly, then Mama bundled her up...

And we all had a little fire. In true Jones fashion, Amy is in LOVE with fire and was very helpful in gathering sticks. She never went too close though. She would add her kindling to the very edge and say "Hot. hot."
All three of us sat in our chairs and talked about our day until it got dark and we all got hungry. It's too bad that she needed a bath, I could have sniffed her little campfire-y baby head all night long.