{"id":2854,"date":"2017-03-31T15:17:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/?p=2854"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:03:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T22:03:34","slug":"2017-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/2017\/03\/31\/2017-march\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 – March"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

March!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We kept going with Arabella’s birthday theme for the first small part of March (as her birthday is at the very end of February). We were able to go see Dobbins lookout in South Mountain Park (if in Phoenix, it’s worth a visit) to see some city lights light up the night. A few days later, we took Arabella who always liked Belle (pronounced Bell-e, or Belly) from Beauty and the Beast to see the new movie. The new edition was live-action (vs cartoon) and she was yet again a fan. She did however mention that the cartoon was probably better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The top lookout marker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ara and Grampy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Beauty and the Beast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pin the tail on the… pig!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Face Swap! <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ara and her hat\/envelope<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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In the bottom photo, you can see when we played some games, including pin the tail on the piggy (as part of her birthday shenanigans). The next photo is something that I wouldn’t normally post but I find it to be comical. I did a face swap with Arabella on one of the photo apps. She use to love doing this with me but now for some reason, now she’s like “uhhhh dad that’s weird.” The last photo seen is our silly girl wearing one of those padded envelope mailers as a hat – because why not?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also took some time to go to another Blazers game, this time back in Phoenix. If you look at the photo of the screenshot image of a recap of the game, you can actually see us! We had pretty good seats. One of the reasons I didn’t totally mind seeing Blazer games in Phoenix was that the tickets were almost always pretty affordable. You can see Ara with her Blazers bear at the game in the photo below that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This month also saw Domi (Sky’s childhood friend) come to visit us for a week. We took her all over town as much as we could and even to places out of the city like Sedona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you look at the photo of Arabella giving me a flower you will also see she is holding a VTech Chicken. Why? Well, we were in Goodwill.. (by the way the Goodwill’s in Arizona are far better than I’ve seen anywhere else in the country) and they offer a different percent off each weekend for their items. On some weekends they have items that were 90% off! Well anyway, we ended up getting that toy for pennies and she just adored it. She kept it for years – to be honest. We didn’t get rid of it until some time later. It was so well loved that the next kid even played with it for a while!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The last row of photos are Domi and Ara in Sedona, Ara posing near the Fountain Hills fountain, and finally, a photo that was sent to us on March 15th! Emily and Nam had their baby, a sweet girl who they named Breanna. What an adorable moment that was shared with us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

just Pray<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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note: this post was published on 07\/26\/22 but moved the publish date back to the end of March 2017 to keep chronological order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

March! We kept going with Arabella’s birthday theme for the first small part of March (as her birthday is at the very end of February). We were able to go see Dobbins lookout in South Mountain Park (if in Phoenix, it’s worth a visit) to see some city lights light up the night. 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