Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Meet Layla

I realized the other day that I had not shared something on my blog:)

Back in February we added another addition to our family....Layla.

Actually she's Hannah's puppy. We'd been promising Hannah for 4 years that when we "settled down" somewhere she could get her own puppy. Well, back in February we assumed we WERE settled down in Abq so here she is! We're not sure IF we're settled here or not or what our future holds but alas Layla will be along for the ride...

BTW, she is the sweetest dog EVER! And smart as a whip. She learned 3 "tricks" in the first 3 days we had her and she was barely 4 months old....

Petroglyphs

The first weekend in May my sister came down to visit us. Mom also took vacation and came over from Phx. We visited the Petroglyph National Monument about a mile from our house. It was really neat and of course we're tying it into history next year.

It was a fun little trip!

Grand Canyon

We visited the Grand Canyon over Mother's Day weekend. It was a nice trip although the kids weren't really as impressed.

Grandma and the kids.

That's all I'm posting. Most of the photos look the same. Big hole in the ground LOL.

Bedrock City

20 miles outside of the Grand Canyon is a little theme park called Bedrock city. Of course we had to stop! I mean who doesn't want to have a Yabba Dabba Do time?!

All of these were out-takes. This was the best one....

Pebbles, I mean Hailey driving without a license.

Hannah making friends with Betty.

The gang taking the car for a spin.

Our Fishin' hole

Memorial Day weekend.

We caught 1 trout, 5 crawfish, wicked sunburns, and the stomach flu but we had a good time:)

Last Sunday when we went fishing, we also visited the Jemez Indian Ruins.

This was a giant underground Kiva. A Kiva is an outdoor oven. There's more to it than that such as it's supposed to be sacred somehow but that's all I know:) Anyways the kids actually got to climb down into this one.

Family pic!

This was a rather large ruins compound. This was about 1/4 of it....

Anyways, this was a fun day and we're going to tie this in next year to our history.

Birthday X 3

My baby turned 1 on may 3rd. Jake's birthday was 1 week before and Auntie Rikki's birthday was 1 week before that so we did a group birthday this year:) The theme was luau/beach/pirate. I made hawaiian chicken w/rice for dinner. You get the drift....

Hailey's sandcastle cake. Very simple, but I WAS doing 3 cakes in one day...

Hailey "wearing" the family birthday hat. Still not sure what to do with her cake.

Jake holding his sunken treasure chest cake. He loved it:)

Jake putting up with-err wearing the birthday hat and Brandon singing HIS rendition of Happy Birthday.

Auntie Rikki holding her cake.

Auntie Rikki being very polite and putting up with our traditions....

Completely random photos....

Jake lost his first tooth last week.

This is how real ladies get around lol. Actually this is how Hailey crawls in a dress. We call it the monkey crawl.

Jake pushin' Hailey around.

Hailey working on Hannah's Math-U-See. Gotta' start 'em young! LOL

Hailey playing with Hannah's dollies. She was actually rocking them:)

Flowers my honey brought home on Friday night:)