White Sands

Last weekend we had an awesome family adventure. Hyrum had Friday off and at about 9:30am he said, "wanna go to White Sands?" Did I ever! In an hour we were on the road and we booked our hotel on the car ride to Las Cruces. We met up with our good friend Janae. She lives down in Las Cruces and is a fellow dietitian. We had dinner with her in the old town area. It is Billy the Kid territory. Then on Saturday morning we hit White Sands. It was really amazing!

Spotting Hyrum while he does a back flip.

Scottie and Hyrum leaping off the dunes

Our family at the top of a high dune.

Janae, Hyrum, and Grant leaping and James watching.

It was the coolest thing ever, really. When you drive in you feel like it is a ski resort because everything is white, except that people are warm in t-shirts and bare feet. It was in the 70s in November people. If that doesn't convince you to come visit me, I don't know what will. We bought some sleds and sledded for awhile. I think our favorite though was jumping off the dunes. It was a kick. Definitely a must see in New Mexico. The boys had an absolute blast in the biggest sand box they have ever seen. Scottie loved not having to wear shoes and getting as dirty as his heart desired. Fabulous!

I will leave you with this adorable picture of Grant buried up to his waist in sand. He isn't too sure about it but overall he had a good time too. One last fun fact, all that sand is gypsum, think plaster. Yeah, cool.

Happy Halloween

Mummy dogs for dinner

One Spider Man

One Space Man

One cow

Lots of Fun

Scottie is 5!

Scottie had a birthday on the 27th of October. We had a fun time at the park. We had pizza bagel bites, a pinata, some chocolate cake, lots of friends, and some awesome games. The highlight of the day was watching all the kids take on Hyrum single handedly in a tug-of-war. It was funny. Those kids are strong!

Lunch!

Tug of War

Scottie wacking the Bat pinata

Solids

Grant has started solids and he is interested but not for more than a few bites. He does like to smile for the camera though. Hey good looking. What you got cooking? Those tufts sticking out of his head are actually some pretty flowers that I got for my birthday, not crazy hair.

What are you looking at?

Pumpkin Patch

In October we went to the pumpkin patch with a bunch of friends. We got a couple of pumpkins and had fun in the corn maze, on the hay ride, going down the slide, and petting some farm animals. October is such a beautiful month in Albuquerque.

Here is Scottie with two of his buddies. The girl is Scottie's only real friend that is a girl. She is so cool she came to his birthday party and was the only girl there but didn't care at all or maybe even notice. She also plays a mean game of cars, trains, or super heroes so we like having her around.

Grant's Baby Blessing

Back in July we had Grant's baby blessing in Monroe, Washington at my parents house. Here is a cute picture of our third munchkin. He is nearly six months already so I guess I better post something more up to date soon.