"A Little Heaven on Earth"

Last Friday on the long four day weekend, David and I were in Phoenix. I had to have some surgery on my right leg and after that we went our to dinner with Ben and Caitlin and then went to the movies. It was a great time and we enjoyed being out with Ben and Caitlin. My leg is fine and I will have the other leg done on March 3. After the movies we went home but before we did we went by a new soccer complex, unfortunately I did not take the pictures that night with all the fog on the fields, it was really cool and did look a little like Heaven. But on Saturday we went back down to Phoenix to watch the girls basketball team play the second round of state, and we went to the fields and took the following pictures. David was in Heaven, he could not believe how nice and how many fields there were. Eleven in all with one field as the premier field, it was done with astro turf, very nice. David wants to see if he can get next years state soccer play offs at this complex. The grass was not bermuda but good, nice grass as you can see.









After we watched our girls team loose in the second round to Pusch Ridge we decided that we would go to Prescott Valley and watch a movie. I guess that was not to be the case. We turned off at Cordes Junction and started towards Prescott Valley and I was on the phone talking to Nathan and I hear a sound like we hit something and then a swishing sound and then we were pulling over with a flat tire. The right rear passenger side tire was totally flat. Of course Dave knows how to change a tire, it is just that we had not had to do it on a 3/4 ton 4x4 truck. Luckily we had a spotlight, because the flashlight we had was basically dead. So as I am freezing and shaking and holding the light Dave and I began the 45 minute ordeal of changing the tire on the side of the road with traffic whizzing by. At least it was not raining or snowing just the wind blowing and about 40 degrees. Just as we were finishing a man stopped behind us and asked if he could help, I had been silently praying for some help. He had a 4 way tire iron and that helped and he lifted the flat tire into the truck. By the time we got over to the theatre the next showing of Jumper was not until 10:30pm and so we just went to Pizza Hut and had a nice dinner. I gues we were just tryint to do to much in one day. So while I was holding the light and freezing I also took the following pictures, David of course did all the work. I am sure glad he was there because I could not have even lifted the tire to get it on or off the truck. It had to of weighed at least 200lbs., or so it seemed. David is up coaching his tournament soccer team in a friendly game with a team from Sedona. He is sick but you know how much he loves soccer. The weather today is clear and blue, blue skies, but cold. We had rain on Wednesday night. Hope everyone enjoys the pictures. Sam and Rachel you need to update your blog, please. Love mom and dad.