October Fest

Spencer loves to climb the tree in our backyard. He says he's a monkey and then tries to hang upside down... Yes the leaves are still green.

This is my little fall decoration that I made that is hanging on our front door. Just showing it off.

Kyle's parents came this last weekend and stayed with us. We did a lot of fun things and had fun. We went to the famous Albuquerque zoo one of the days. It was fun. We saw a lot of animals and observed some of their lovely animal behaviors....

We also went to one of Spencer's soccer games and cheered him on.

We also went to a pumpkin patch that is about 45 minutes away from Albuquerque. It was super windy and busy, but the kids had a great time.

Spencer waiting for a ride in this bucket-type train being pulled by a little tractor thing. (Yeah, that makes sense in my mind.)

Carly watching Spencer jump on this big trampoline.

Kyle and Spencer picking out a pumpkin at the patch.

The crew with the pumpkins.

We did a lot of things at the patch. This is when we went through this big corn maze. Luckily Kyle is great at reading maps, or we'd still be in there....

It was great to have visitors and we even provided nice air mattresses for them :) So, if you decide to come and visit, you too can have such accomodations! We would love to have more visitors! :)

Why we love Albuquerque

We go from dead lizards (as in the previous post) to live lizards.... this one got into our house a couple days ago. Of course Kyle was at work, so I had the lone privilege of getting it out. The kids thought it was pretty cool, but I think they thought it was even more cool to watch their mom chase it around with a broom. Of course I took a break from the chasing to catch a photo of it... Ah, we love lizards.

This is another awesome thing about Albuquerque. It's Balloon Fiesta time and this view is from our front porch. The kids and I walked over to this field yesterday to watch them land. If you look really close, you can see little dots in the air, those too, are hot air balloons. (above that house)

And we decided to get up-close and personal with the balloons this morning; so we headed on down to Balloon Fiesta Park. We woke up at 5 Am so we could be there for the Special Shapes Rodeo. It is so fun that it's worth waking the kids up that early to go! :)

It's just something you have to see in person to comprehend how many hot air balloons there are! These pictures don't catch the glory.

The highlight of the morning was seeing Darth Vader (not the best pic, sorry). They even had storm troopers there to send him off.

Dawn Patrol- before all the balloons get the okay to go up, these balloons go up to check the wind.
Fun, fun morning! We love the Balloon Fiesta!

Hello again!

So, Spencer was playing outside and came running in, telling me there was a lizard on my chair. I thought maybe he had seen a leaf or something because how could a lizard get on my chair.... well, sure enough there was one- a dead one- that Spencer had PUT on my chair. Somehow this poor little creature had gotten into the kids sandbox and then we must have put the lid on, and it roasted.... oops. Bye, bye lizard.






And this is just a picture of Carly, once again putting things on her head. If she can't find a hat, she'll put anything else she can find.

And this is just a side note- I now have an on-line "store". You can find the link on the side. It's nothing too exciting, but I will be adding to it and am hoping to sell a few things. So spread the word :) And I promise, no more advertising on our blog... how lame am I? :)

FHE

Our kids love Family Home Evening. This week it was Carly's treat and Spencer helped her make banana bread. As you can tell....she is over-joyed.