Start of the growing season

This year I decided to try a couple of container growing experiments. I found these cool self watering containers that will allow for a bit of veggie gardening that is mobile. I planted already and since the containers have wheels on them I just wheel them into the garage at night and back out to get some sun during the day. I actually only have one so far but it has some arugala, romaine, chives, cilantro and some chard seeds planted in it. A tomato planter of the same variety is one the way with a smaller planter for some misc. things and perhaps some edible flowers. I will periodically update the condition of these plantings until I am eating the deliciousness or it is a total disaster.

Time to post is short these days.

March has seen some interesting times. We took Henry to NM and then promptly down to Tucson for his first "out of belly" trip to the Old Pueblo. He is pretty good for the most part. I do wonder how he is seemingly the only baby in the world that bawls and bawls when he is in his car seat riding in the car. Anne went back to work yesterday so it was my first shift as stay at home dad. All in all things seems to go pretty well. I will leave you with some random photos of happenings around the Pacheco universe.

Just a quick post after returning home from New Mexico. We were able to meet up with my brother's family in Albuquerque for a quick little trip to Turtle Mountain Brewery where I snapped a photo of my sister in law with Henry and my niece with Henry. I also threw in a photo of Henry on my chest and one by his lonesome.

Anne's birthday

Grandma Cindy came to visit for Anne's birthday and we took advantage of the offer to leave Henry with her for a couple of hours. Anne's choice was to go out for a bit of nordic skiing even though the weather was not the greatest. We headed out with the dog and had a good, quick little ski. Today the weather was drastically better and Grandma offered up the option to get out again so we took it. The weather was actually so good that by the time we were heading back to the truck our skis were sticking like crazy but it was still a good bit of an excursion. The dog was loving it as she was the main attraction again if only for a couple of hours each day.

Hiking along Wet Beaver Creek

Today we loaded up and headed down to Wet Beaver Creek to soak in the 60 degree weather, take Henry on his first hike and let Yampa have some fun swimming in the creek. Everything went well as Henry slept the whole way and way back which was approximately 5 miles. Yampa was very excited about the water and was trying to get down to the water at every turn. We finally arrived at our destination and she got to swim a bunch and seemed really happy. As I write this she is out cold on her bed. Henry is also sleeping in Mommy's arms but his m.o. is to rally around ten and then stay up for a couple of hours, feed again and then calm down enough to sleep for a while.

Busy busy

It seems very funny that we have been really busy but nothing around the house seems to get done. Well that's not entirely true we have been managing to keep up with things but not get ahead on anything. We do have a reason for this of course and his name in Henry. Henry was born one week ago today and weighed in at 7 pounds 9.5 ounces measuring 20 inches in length. His first week was filled with normal baby stuff like going to the doctor for the first time but also some more adventurous stuff like going to the Pay n Take, shopping for a pair of jeans for mom, and an expedition to Target this morning. Sleep comes in chunks, the dog is apathetic about anything baby and life is good. We have extremely caring family and friends and are very fortunate. Oh I almost forgot, if you haven't heard already, the week leading up to Henry's birth we had 3 rounds of snow with the last being in the top 5 storms on record. Yampa was enjoying the snow but had some difficulty with it being twice as deep as she is tall. The day Henry was born was clear and sunny though with a pretty awesome view of the peaks from the front of the hospital. Cheers!

No baby yet-might as well go to Sedona

No baby yet so yesterday we loaded up and went down to Sedona. Anne and Yampa went for a little bit of a hike and I rode a short bit. I decided on a couple of trails in the Dry Creek area to connect me over to Lost Watch to Long Canyon/Deadman's Pass back to Dry Creek area and done. It was about 60 degrees and pretty damn nice. It seemed as if town was getting busier due to the upcoming 3 day weekend but I only saw a few folks on my ride. I snapped a few photos and I will point out a powerline in one of them because without that powerline there this trail would be in the wilderness. Funny how that works. The boundary is actually just on the other side of the trail. Over the next week we quite possibly could have a little bundle of joy to add to the family and to make things a bit more exciting Flagstaff is right in the path of 3 big storms. The forecast is calling for up to 5 feet of snow. That should be really nice. Arizona Snowbowl is forecasted to receive 8 to 10 feet of snow. There are all sorts of warnings etc. around the area. Be safe out there.