Category: Travel Arizona

Two weekends ago I completed one of my goals on my bucket list! I have a few lists and will be posting more about those later.  Cameron & I drove up to Lake Powell which is partially in Arizona and partially in Utah.  It was a crazy trip and took a lot longer due to some road issues we didn't expect, but we tried to look up :) Saturday morning was race day and I met up with my awesome race...

  Mr. Smith and I AND two of our favorite couples went on a canyoneering trip a few weekends back.  What is canyoneering you ask? Yeah, about that.. I don't really know, so I looked it up.  It is pretty much using a variety of outdoor skills (that our husbands happen to be somewhat experts in, thank goodness) including but not limited to, climbing, jumping, rappelling, swimming,...

  Top 6 favorite things: 1. weekends with my boys 2. hiking the great outdoors 3. lakes 4. travel 5. good food 6. dog friendly cities

Happy Memorial Day Weekend! And a very BIG Thank You to all those that serve our country! This weekend we decided to take a hike out to the Estrella Mountain Range for some mid-day hiking.  Don't forget we live in Arizona so it's already at least 100 degrees most days.  We decided since it was so hot we would do a easy 1 mile hike trail for a fun 2 mile round trip hike.  We always carry...

For MLK Day, yes back in January...we went on an amazing hike with 2 of our best couple friends! It was a blast on this 2 mile hike to the peak (pictured below) but it was sure getting hot.  We love being outdoors and discovering new fun places to visit, like the little town of Wickenburg, Arizona where we stopped for lunch at the best sandwich shop! Now go dig up your hiking boots and go...