Saturday, May 29, 2010

Skull Valley, Our final Farewell

So many good memories of this place. I have early childhood memories of coming up to Skull Valley. My grandpa, dad, and uncles would come up often to work on my grandpas house which was up the hill. That was sad when it was sold about 10 years ago. But we had Grandma Anna Mae still living up here to keep us connected to Skull Valley.This was so sad because our little piece of Family history in Skull Valley isn't ours anymore. This is My great grandma Anna Mae's house. I think she lived in this house for about 35 years or so before moving down to Glendale to be closer to family as she got older.
The home had been taken care of for several years before going up for sale. Sold in April. We took the opportunity to go up during our spring break one final time.



Smashing coins on the tracks. We always love to smash em and try to find all of them.


Out in the orchard. Zachary loved the freedom of roaming.
Great grandpa's wall of tools.
Out Geo caching. just before heading into Prescott turned off the road and found this beautiful place. Saw so much because of geocaching.



Metal Detecting behind Grandma's house.



The Kids thought it was great they could get lost in the backyard.
Loved climbing this huge cottonwood.


Our very first geo-cache ever. Little trinkets in a weatherproof container and a log book. Fun to find with our new hiking GPS.
Taylor pointed this one out for us when we had a hard time pinpointing it.
We will all miss this place. I know it was such a happy place for myself, Jeremy, our kids and for so many members of my family. I'm glad we got to go up here for as long as we did, but it will surely be missed. It will be a wonderful memory when we drive through Skull Valley in the future.

2 comments:

The Pritchard Party said...

That looks like so much fun! And I can't believe how big your kids are getting!!! Ugh! Make it stop :)

Tara Williams said...

Jeremy and his metal detector! haha! Wow that place looks beautiful. That is to bad you can't enjoy that area anymore. Geo caching is fun thanks for taking us up in Safford my kids LOVED it!