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.

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:)

Ok, I downloaded Picasa from google so I can tweek my photos and hopefully be able to size them down so they'll upload faster to blogspot. I'm gonna play around a bit:)

I love this one! This was taken at the park about 3 weeks ago.

Park Day back in April

Here are some of the pics I've been promising. Not sure how far I'll get as it's taking forEVER to load them.

Oh, thank you to everyone for sending your well wishes and concern over my lack of posting. We are alive! Abq is definately growing on us. The first month I seriously just wanted to pack up and head back to Phx. I'm fine now though, LOL.We don't have internet at the house. Don't know when we will. It's just not a priority for me right now. Moneywise or timewise. Frankly, it was just consuming too much of my time. I am a "learner" and got into the habit of running to the web to research anything and everything and it just took too much time. Not to mention my blog-hopping, list reading, email reading, etc....so I'm on a sabbatical for now. I hope you understand! I do miss everyone though!
Here are Hailey's latest pics. She's almost 11 months now. Can you believe it!?!
Some other updates....
We're 3/4 of the way done with school. This year has been a little rough. I have a sneaking suspicion that Brandon has dyslexia and it's really taken a toll on the both of us. I'm trying something new this next year and if things don't improve I'll have to figure something else out.
We're enjoying Abq finally. Haven't found a church yet. And honestly, we've only visited one so far. It's not my most favoritest thing to do you know. There are some "doozies" out there. We've got 2 more in our radar and are hoping one will work out. Michael is STILL traveling to Las Vegas. I've just given up being upset about it and am just rolling with it now. I just feel bad for him, he's "missed" 9 of Hailey's 11 months by traveling. I'm thankful though that he does get to see us on the weekends. There are military people who don't get to see their families for months at a time, trying to keep things in perspective:) He should be done at the end of April and is more than excited to get started in Abq. They are really wanting him to come as well. They are currently without a manager. We have a new doggie, actually she's Hannah's, named Layla. She's a miniature dachshund with longish red hair. She's a sweetheart. My camera got lost in the move, like it's GONE, so I haven't been able to take any pictures. I'm probably going to break down here this weekend and get a new one. Well, that's about all. Again, I miss everyone. I hope to join everyone here again in the next few months. We'll see.
Love,

Friday favorites

I think I've missed the last couple of Fridays so I'm going to post 3 this week.

#1) Babies. Aren't they wonderful....

#2) Sunshine. What would I do without sunshine?

#3) Very cute 3 year-olds and they're verbiage. Matthew told me yesterday, "Mom, me very love you...lots." Now, if that doesn't melt a mamma's heart, I don't know what will.

My new talents

Well, fairly new...

"I can situp by myself!"

"And, I can crawl!"

"And, I look cute doing both!"


P.S. This is the reason I'm still up this late posting. She woke up and I started taking pics of my cutie patootie!