Since we moved to Tucson:

1. I saw a real thunder/lightning storm and I couldn't have been more excited. There was a bolt of lightning every second! The storm surrounded the whole city. The raindrops were the size of dimes. We have a covered porch in our backyard where we like to sit on our camp chairs and watch the storm. It's an interesting feeling to have it be pooring down rain and it's still 105 degrees outside.

2. I saw a scorpion for the first time...and it just so happened to be INSIDE our house. I was excitedly sitting on the floor in the new baby room going through all our baby stuff, which I might do too often, and looked over and saw it sitting right next to me. He was not welcome to sit next to me any longer.

3. The baby started kicking. Now she loves to kick me all the time. Especially after I eat, but maybe that's because there's usually a lot of sugar involved.

4. I touched a cactus. Kell and I were on a walk one night and I had the sudden desire to touch a cactus that we were passing. Since Tucson is a huge star viewing city they usually don't have street lights, which made this more difficult. But we managed to do it succesfully. No poked fingers. They're much tougher than I thought. That's pretty much all that naturally grows here. But since I've never really been around them it's pretty fun. You won't see one of those growing in Oregon!