In a Nutshell...

Ok, so I got this new camera (thank you soo much) because I hear I have to post pics more. So, here are some pics we've taken with it so far. Bryce and I went to Las Cruces for my last training, YEAH!! Here's us in the car.. (Thanks G & KT for babysitting Eva, and Karen for babysitting Isobel so we could go!)

Then after the training was over, Bryce took me to the place where he and the girls went hiking on my birthday. So here's the fin of rock, some really tall banana yuccas (which are everywhere), and a roadrunner.

(The fin of rock they climbed is right behind him.)

I was taking this picture for the reddish pink flowers - when I looked at the label it read "Spotted Gayfeather" - that's the tall fluffy grayish ones.

Then, as you know if you read Katie's blog, we went to ABQ and took photos of her family. This is Eva ready to go to the park.
Sweet girl. I love having a camera that works! Thanks so much! Anyway, here's a flower to you from Eva. We love ya!

Silly Eva

I got these pics off my camera - since it only takes 14 pics at a time...

Anyway, I hope you enjoy these as much as I do:) I guess I've been missing that cute face because I haven't seen it for almost 5 days...too long!

Oh, and here a couple pictures of the beautiful aspen leaves up by the Santa Fe ski area.

Up, up and away in my beautiful balloon

This'll be very short and sweet. We went to the balloon fiesta in ABQ this past weekend and it was quite the experience - try it once for sure, we'll see about next year. We woke the girls up at 5am to get down to the balloon park. I still can't believe how many balloons there were. Note to self: thank Katie for making breakfast burritos the night before, and go to bed earlier when you know you're getting up at 5am.

Check us out at Katie's blog. http://ktann83.blogspot.com

What would I do without Katie and her camera to update y'all about my life. Good thing we're hanging out a lot or you'd just get lame notes from me without a picture link;)

If you get lost, find a police man

So, we went to the state fair last month with my brother's family. We had a great time. It was very nerve wracking to keep track of the girls. We stopped at the police dept. booth and signed our kids up. We had to write our kid's names, our names, and our cell phone number - then they gave the girls a bracelet that had a number that corresponded to my info. So, we told the girls that if they got separated from us to find a nice police man and show him your bracelet so he can call me. It was a zoo! Thank heaven we didn't lose anyone.

Anyway, we did have fun and my SIL took some fun pics so go see her blog:
http://ktann83.blogspot.com/2007/10/new-mexico-state-fair.html

We really did have a busy, fun month. Sorry for not posting more;)

A Spoonful of Sugar

So I hope you all have seen Mary Poppins at one time or another, if not, you won't really get the full story but it's still good.

Tonight I made dinner. Which if you know me, you know I'm quite the chef. I had planned on making Lasagne and maybe even home-made breadsticks. Isobel complained-I don't like Lasagne. Well, last week our fridge died. It was about 60 degrees inside our fridge and outside our apartment. Well, we didn't notice right away, it took about 2 days for us to decide it was really kaput. Well, then we called the office and had them send someone over. He came and "fixed" it but a couple hours later when the milk was still warmish, I called again. They said they'd send someone over in the morning. It was Saturday, so the guy had to do the work all by himself. I don't know how he got the fridge up to the second floor and into our place by himself (we were at Isobel's classmate's birthday party). When we got home, he'd replaced our cereal boxes and magnets onto our new fridge. How thoughtful.

The point: I went to make Lasagne and our cottage chesse was bad. As I was finishing up making the alternative, I told the girls that dinner was ready. Eva asked, "What are we having?" "Spam pasta" "Spam pasta! I love that!"

So I I dished up the food and then took the cornbread (overcooked) out of the oven. "I love cornbread" was the reply. "Mom is so nice to make us such good food."

Then Isobel asked for a drink of ...get this...powdered milk, "because the other milk is all gone." I told her I had gone to the store and gotten more milk. She looked disappointed. So I told her she could have powdered milk to drink if she wanted. She wanted - and was excited! When I poured the girls their milk. Eva took a drink and said, "Mmm, chocolate!" Isobel quikly corrected her that it was white milk. I told Isobel to let Eva go ahead and pretend. Then Isobel said, "It is chocolate. Yum!" Then Eva said, "Strawberry!" "Lime Cordial, Delicious!"

This continued for some time while their forks talked like sisters who were busy feeding someone. Someone who loved Spam pasta.

"A spoonful of sugar goes a long, long way. Have yourself a healthy helping everyday."

Lesson from little

Hey kids, this is Bryce.

The whole family went hiking at the Santa Fe Ski area today (through beautiful fall aspen leaves), and Isobel taught me a little lesson that I thought I'd pass on.

We rode the ski lift to the top and hiked down, luring Eva and Isobel down the trail with Smarties. (They wanted to ride on shoulders, "back down the chair," anything but walk.) Almost at the bottom, we saw a wooden sign: "Adventure Land."

So we took a little detour. It was a very short loop, just a dirt maintenance road that looped out and back... We were almost back when I rolled my eyes and said, "Adventure Land is quite a place."

Isobel said, "Yeah, like there's these rock stairs," and headed up the side of the mountain. Eva followed right along, delighted. Then they found a few boulders and climbed to the top of those, and Isobel said, "Adventure Land is fun."

Consider the lilies.