Summer Vacation

Both Eric and I had been itching to go camping and just get out of town so we decided to head to the mountains of New Mexico where we wouldn't sweat to death.  It was a really nice trip.  The kids did much better than I expected spending 5+ hours in the car for 3 days in a row.  I got them little surprises to open every hour while we were driving and the transformers were definately the favorite.  They were entertained for hours.  Here they are playing with them at the rest area.

 We spent one night in San Antonio on the riverwalk.  Nothing to exciting there but it was the kids first time in a hotel and they were in heaven watching Tom and Jerry on tv and jumping on the beds.  Next we headed to Carlsbad, NM.  We went to Carlsbad Caverns.  The kids were impressed for about 2 mins.  About half way through the 1 mile walk Dustin cried to be carried and fell asleep a few minutes before the end.  Mitchel was a sport and made it the whole way....although complained that his legs hurt half way through.

 Next day we headed to Santa Fe, NM.  Its an interesting town.  I would have liked to walked through the shops but the kids were uninterested in that so we quickly walked through the town square, got some yummy french desserts, and then headed for the hills.  We camped I think at 8000 ft and the weather was almost perfect.  It was in the in the 70s during the day and probably got down into the high 40s at night.  They air was dry for the most part.  Except that it was the rainy season there so it rained the second night.  Not so much fun rolling out of a wet tent at 27 weeks pregnant to use the restroom several times a night but I survived 2 nights.  The kids had fun playing in the tent and exploring with their binoculars.

 We went for a walk along a creek and had lots of fun throwing rocks in the creek.  Luckily we didn't see any bears or cougars.

It was a nice trip before school started and also nice to be in cooler weather. 

Old Pictures

Just thought I'd do atleast a post of something. I was just looking through old pictures tonight and thought I'd post some about 1 yr old pictures of everyone.

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I'm back....Here is 2011 in review...post trek...

First we celebrated Dustin's 1st birthday



Then we took a trip to Galveston.

We celebrated Mitchel's 3rd birthday were this was the only picture I got of his party...other than blurry pictures of kids jumping around the bounce place.

Then in June we thought we'd try selling our house and moving closer to Eric's work. We price our house too high...which resulted in 6 months of cleaning and...playing on the vacuum...

An playing in the horrible Houston heat....

And staying in pajamas for a good part of the day while I cleaned.

Then we took a short trip to Washington on the Brazos where we learned of this great country of Texas...and the rooster kept "cockawoodadoodooing" at us at the living farm.

Mitchel started preschool...which resulted in kicking and screaming...and better independent play times at home.
Then Super Dut and Super Mit saved the world for Halloween (Thanks Bah bah)

When I wasn't cleaning I was knitting...13 Christmas stockings for all of my family...all year.

Then we finally moved the week after Thanksgiving.

At our new neighborhood Santa came around on a firetruck and we watched from a distance and about had a melt down when they blew the horn 5 ft from us.

And we celebrated Christmas and over loaded on junk food.