Things to do in Thatcher, AZ… gotta love it!!

Go running, Hike the mesas, Mountain bike in the desert (these are my personal favorites)

View from the top of the mesa....

Longboard!!

Explore natural caves at Red Knolls


Hiking, Picnics, and Mtn. biking on Mt. Graham

Floating down the river or just playing

Module Hopping

Shooting


Go to EAC basketball games

Hang out at Sonic

Go to Walmart at least once a day, if not more.......hahaha

Go out to eat at R&R Pizza Buffet or one of the many local Mexican restaurants. Which one is your favorite? You may like one so much you go there twice in one day! Ok so I didn't do it on purpose.....went out to lunch with a friend then to dinner with the family

Not to mention Fry Mesa, Fishing, Bonfires, 4-wheeling, Hot tubs, Mud-bogging, Crawdad fishing, Floating down the canal, plus much more! I didn't get to do any of these last week, hence no pictures. As you can tell I really packed the fun in!

Thanksgiving

Early in the morning of Turkey Day my family woke up at the crack of dawn in the pouring rain to run in a 5K out yonder in Pima....also known as the Turkey Trot. My Dad got a little spunk in him or something and just signed the whole family up one day....without consulting us of course! No, I'm glad he did. I enjoyed it. And I made it sound worse than it was. It wasn't really that early, just meant that I couldn't sleep in till 9:00 am....dang it! haha. And the rain didn't start really coming down until right after we finished the race and boy did it come down! I was drenched. I did stick around though for the raffle and won a gift certificate to a local Mexican restaurant. My only comment on the actually race is....boy, am I out of shape! hehe

Here's the family in an action shot....

Then we had a delicious Thanksgiving dinner later in the afternoon with the family. Deeeelicious! My mom really went all out.


I really enjoyed the Thanksgiving break. It's the most productive and the most exciting trip home I've had. I think I enjoyed it so much because 1) I was in Spain last year so I didn't get to celebrate Thanksgiving at all and 2) we did a TON of stuff! I packed so much into the week I can't even believe it!

It was fun to see former students and their excitement. "Hey Miss Anderson! I miss you!" That was shouted to me while I was running the 5K. hahaha. So I just shouted back! "I miss you too Logan!" Thatcher was my favorite place to teach.....great students!

Thatcher, AZ

Ryan Shupe….again!!

So if you have been reading my blog, you’ll know that I went to a Ryan Shupe concert a few months ago. So it was perfect timing...meant to be. They had a concert tonight in Thatcher! So of course we had to go! They never cease to amaze me...such talented performers. And this time we got a picture with ‘em!! I got to stand next to Banjo Boy...bahaha!

Snowb and I went with my parents and on the way home, just as we turned onto our street my dad got pulled over by a cop. Sonya and I were laughing the whole time cause my dad just chuckles and my mom says she’s going to walk home. Oh man.....haha! That would sure look good! Turns out the cop was a friend of the family (that’s the good thing about living in a small town, but bad thing for the cop) so he just told us to slow it down. Great ending to the night!

Squeak Squeak Squeakity Squeak

I’m hoping now that I’m back in Arizona where there is warmer weather my voice will have a chance to recover a bit. It’s been awfully squeaky lately, but is bound to get worse. So sometimes when I’m talking a certain word or phrase comes out in a high pitched squeak. The weird thing is that this only happens in the winter….the colder it gets the squeakier my voice gets. This has been going on for years. It’s not the best situation for teaching or coaching basketball either. The other day in practice a girl asked me if I was losing my voice….. nope, not at all! At least I can laugh with them!

So here’s the story…… Five years ago I went to Mexico with my older sister to study Spanish for 3 weeks. We were living in Cuernavaca, right outside of Mexico City. Well, I got a cold while I was there and after that I have been squeaking ever since. The Mexican air must have done something to my vocal cords ;) Kinda strange…..