Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta

This weekend, we've been down in Albuquerque, NM with the Cobbs for the International Balloon Fiesta. On Friday night, we went to see the 'Special Shapes Glow' - where all the different character balloons glow off and on for about an hour. It was pretty spectacular. The kids enjoyed watching the balloons, swinging light sabers, eating funnel cakes, and watching fire works.

On Saturday Morning, we went back to the fair grounds for the balloon ascension (bright and early - 5 am). It was a brilliant display. The first balloons to go up were the dawn patrol, sent up to make sure the conditions were ok for all the others. Then wave upon wave of balloons went up between 7:00 and 8:00 am. There were approximately 500 balloons. Simply amazing. The kids enjoyed seeing the balloons, being able to touch the balloons, eating warm fresh donuts and hot chocolate, and finally ending the morning with burning off the last little bit of energy by chasing Uncle Daniel and jumping in the carnival jump house.

first pigtails...

Here are Lily's first pigtails. Love them! What's Lily up to these days: she's starting to tell us 'all done' in sign language, she's still working on crawling - sometimes goes backwards, she wants to eat by herself and pick things up to put into her mouth (no spoon feeding mommy), she claps, she bee-bops to music, and she has started to say goodbye.

Jude has started to love preschool (he goes two days a week). He loves jumping, chasing, rolling, spinning, and anything rambunctious. He's really into pumpkins this fall and always loves racing cars.