5th of July

So our 4th of July was the pits! I mean we were of coarse proud to be Americans and flew our Country's flag but our "celebration" was lame. I blame myself. We planned to go see fireworks at my Uncle Morris lynn and Aunt Susan's house (we've been in the past, and they have had a good firework show). I don't know what the deal was this year but the fireworks didn't shoot into the air like the normal ones do. This was just like a ground display. And since we were at their house, not the church where they were being launched from, it was the LAMEST show ever!!! Even if we would have been at the church, the show still would have been awful! However, we made up for it the next day.....

Our 5th of July was AWESOME !!! :) Blake had read about this camping place online called Workman's Creek. We decided that we would get up and go check it out. We packed a lunch and after a 2 and half our drive we were there. The beautiful Arizona mountains. Blake had read that this place had several different camp grounds, a creek that is stocked yearly, and a 200 ft. waterfall.... our hopes were high!

When we got there we found the camp grounds. They weren't to big. Each one could hold about 5 or 6 family's (In my mind I was expecting something like Sherwood Forest) There were pretty nice camp sights. They had toilets :)

Maycee loved to be out in nature. After we got out and stretched we set off to find the creek and this waterfall that was on the internet.

Maycee is headed to the creek!

We found this cool little place to take a family picture. Couldn't resist it. it was fun to prop the camera and use the timer. It took a couple of try's. Had a few pictures with my back side instead of my face :)

We came to this little waterfall and hoped this was not what everyone was raving about...


Then we found lots of little waterfalls! This was a cool little place where the rocks were chilled away and it looked like a bunch of little steps for dolls or something..... it was cooler in person.
(if you click on the picture it will enlarge and you can see the steps a little better)

After about a 45min. hike up and back the creek we decided we would get lunch and then see if we could find the fall in the using the car. It wasn't bad to hike in the creek, in fact it was a lot of fun it was just had cause we had to carry Maycee the whole time. She might be a lite weight but she gets heavy fast when your trying to jump up rocks.


Lunch was good. Chicken salad sandwiches :) Made them here at this make-shift table/bench Blake made for us. A plank he found on a rock and a stump. He is so handy :)

During lunch, Maycee found a favorite place. This stump was just her size.

We jumped in the car and took off up the road. Ran into, (not literally), some hikers. They told us the fall was just up the road...... we were getting excited :)

And Then there it was...... Beautiful!




They had a small pond right before the fall and we did see 1 fish in it. Can you see it? Its very camouflaged.... upper left hand corner.... well more middle-left of the picture I guess... kinda green looking..... you can see its shadow in the bottom of the pond, just underneath it.

After admiring this we got back in the car and headed further up the road and found a look out tower. talked to a funny old guy for a while and saw some more amazing sights!

After we were satisfied we headed back down the mountain.

Blake wanted to go see the new dam that was put in at Roosevelt Lake so we went and checked that out and then of coarse had to stop for some fishing. Didn't catch anything so it was more of just hanging out with a fishing pole in hand. We had fun though :)

Even though the water was cool Maycee and I enjoyed it :)

Blake doing his thing....
Us doing ours.....

The ride home was even fun.... Maycee started in on this apple and I was surprised what she could do with those 6 front teeth.

Half way gone!

The whole day was great! It was just fun to get away just us, and for pretty cheap too. Just a tank of gas. We decided we will have to go back to actually go camping with a small group of friends or family..... maybe you will be the lucky ones :)