A trip down memory lane…
My husband and I met eight years ago at Thanksgiving Dinner in New Mexico at his parents place. Yes, I’ve known my in-laws longer than I’ve known my husband.
My mother-in-law jokes that it was an arranged marriage.
A return to New Mexico always sets my heart aflutter as I remember the days we met and fell in love there.
A nice place to return to…
While in New Mexico we visited with friends and met many wonderful animals.
We enjoyed riding horses,
petting dogs, and
gathering eggs and naming chickens.
This chicken’s now called Ka-lot thanks to our daughter.
Thank you to our New Mexico friends and family for inviting us into your homes and helping us create these amazing, formative experiences that we shall always treasure.
Another post in our First on Friday series where we share a new experience from the week (or, in this case, from last week!).
Here’s my daughter playing with Uncle Lee’s band, The Honey Gitters, at a brewery in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Yes, she’s really playing. Well, Lee and her are both holding the drumsticks, but she’s holding on tight!
Earlier in the evening, cheering with Gramma from “back stage:”
Singing along or, more accurately, making up her own lyrics:
When she wasn’t hanging in a brewery, she was playing pool at Uncle Lee’s house:
Where else can you climb upon the pool table?!
Good times with the Leyba boys. She loved it!
A trip down memory lane…
In our recap of our Colorado trip, we’re still at Garden of the Gods. (Day 2 of our trip!)
Two years ago, when she was nine months old, my daughter was not yet walking and she never once looked up to notice the giant rocks surrounding us:
Movie: Garden of the Gods #2 (Colorado Springs, Colorado) from Carrie on Vimeo.
This time she saw the park from a totally different perspective and loved the red rocks. Some things didn’t change though. Here is she enjoying the same spot, the exact same rock, in the park:
Movie: Garden of the Gods 2010 from Carrie on Vimeo.
A trip down memory lane…
In 2008 at Garden of the Gods in Colorado:
Last week, almost exactly two years later (this time with Gramma):
My, how she’s grown!
And, yes, we’ve been away on vacation! More on that soon…