A Few Lemons and a Cactus.

This weekend we were graced with the presence of Grandma Judy and Marks niece Jaders (aka Jade). Jade had never been to Arizona so we showed her a few of our Arizona favorites. We hit up the Midwestern Orchards for "just a few" lemons that we made into lemon pie and lemonade. YUM! Grandma filled her trunk FULL for everyone back in Utah. It was a beautiful day for fruit picking and we had lots of fun. Zina and Wilson have converted all the lemons at our house into balls and are constantly throwing them around. I just know that one of these days I'm going to find a rotten lemon behind the couch courtesy of Wilson.

We also go up early and headed to Thunderbird conservation park for a little hiking. We found a friendly cactus that needed a hug and when we got to the top of the trail we also found Santa!! We thought it was funny to find Santa at the top of our hike but didn't stick around for pictures because we had to get back for a little Elders Quorum flag football.

The reason behind Grandma and Jade's visit was Mark's White Coat Ceremony.  We left the kiddos with Brenda (bless you Brenda) and walked over to the Ceremony.  It was a fun evening and we were all proud to belong to Mark because we think he's pretty awesome! 

He gave us a tour of some of his labs and yes, this is the cadaver lab. We were all doing pretty good in there until one of the students uncovered his cadaver and started showing his family all the parts.  Needless to say - we left in a hurry!!