Happy Birthday Shoutout

Twelve years ago today my life changed forever. That was the day we doubled the number a children in our family. Yes, my twins were were born this day 12 years ago. Life at our house has never been the same. I wouldn't trade that day for anything.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAKE and ALEXIS - I LOVE YOU !!

We welcome you to October

October in New Mexico means two things:

1. The weather starts to cool down

and

2. The balloons come to town

It's always so much fun to see all the balloons in the air and welcome back some of our favorites. Balloonists come from all over the world, as far away as China and England. If you ever get a chance to come visit, I highly suggest coming during this time of year. It starts the first Saturday of October and runs for 8 days- you won't be disappointed. We went and got some close-ups this morning.


Isn't the Kangaroo cute?

Our favorite villian:

The Best part -- I didn't even have to zoom in to get these shots.

Bedroom Makover

Remember this Picture? This is what Sierra's room used to look like:



Now it looks like this:

We have a little ways to go yet. But you get the idea. After we got it painted, we just kind of gave up on it. I still have curtains to make and get on the window and we are hoping to put up a chair rail on the wall. It went from purple and lime green to beige and black with lime green accents.

Hopefully I can get back into the mood of working on it. We still want to get more stuff on the wall and get the headboard done.

A quick trip

Earlier this month I was able to fit in a quick trip to Wyoming. While there I spent two days in Yellowstone Park. Here are a few of the sights I got to enjoy:

Mammoth Hot Springs:

The water falls at "the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone"

Can't miss Old Faithful:

And last but not least - some of the local residents:

We even got to see a brown bear in the wild but I couldn't zoom in close enough to get a good picture. And of course I wasn't going to get too close.

Washer Pendant Necklaces...

I have seen these necklaces all over the blog world and we thought it would be fun to make our own. So I went looking for instructions and found a great one here. Soon after we headed to the craft store for the acrylic and to the garage for the washers. It's amazing, the things you can find in the garage to make craft items out of - Who would have thought.

Anyway, here is our version. I actually ended up taking it one step further and made them double sided. How fun is that to have a reversible necklace?

Back To School

Well it's back to the books for us. School started this past Thursday-the 12th. Sierra started her junior year at the high school. Jake and Alexis headed off to the middle school this year for 6gth grade. It's their first year there. They were pretty excited about the change this year. It means they get to ride the bus.

Here are Alexis and Jake on the first day. Sierra leaves too early, so we didn't get one of her. Early morning seminary can be a killer you know (according to her).