Consistently Inconsistent

I love reading the blogs of my friends and family!  How else would I know what is going on in your lives?  (Yeah, no, this introvert isn't good at keeping in touch)  My kids love reading the books made of the old blog entries, and let's face it, it's the only journal I currently keep.  This makes it very sad that I don't keep up with teh blob.  Oh well. The last entry was from before Halloween. . . over 9 months ago.  Time to catch up!

Here's Halloween 2013

red riding hood and a ninja

mad scientist

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First grade field trip

One of the great joys of being a stay at home mum is being able to go on the kids' field trips.  No is still of an age that he enjoys having his old mom around and actually begged me to go with him to the pumpkin patch with his class.  I took my own car and thus got to enjoy the field trip without the added benefit of riding in a bus with 60 howling first graders.    There was a fairly poor corn maze--even No could see over the top of the corn, a sad pumpkin 'patch' where many pumpkins had been dumped on the dirt and an even sadder zoo and playground.  The playground consisted of a cement culvert propped up at an angle to make it a slide.  Imagine, if you will, 6 schools on a field trip to the pumpkin patch and all of those little kids trying to slide.  The zoo was some chickens, a sheep and a zebra/mule cross breed.  Then we got to hike through mud to have our picnic (this was actually most of the boys' favorite part of the day, go figure)

It's fun having a day with my little one, but even more fun to ride home in quiet bliss while he gets to scream his heart out on the bus.

Punkin Patch

Why am I not growing?

we slid down slides

played in a fake gold mining flume

took funny pictures

dug in a corn bin

totally conquered the corn maze

and even got some pumpkins

rode the haywagon

Balloon Fiesta 2013

besides the food and the mountain probably my favorite thing about ABQ is the balloon fiesta.  On the first weekend of October our skies fill up with colorful floating air transports.   My favorite is the dawn patrol, where the balloons inflate in darkness and then you see the burners light up the balloon against the dark sky.  The sight when the whole patrol takes off is enough to get even this night owl up at an amazingly early time to watch the glowing balloons.  

inside the display balloon

Our beautiful watermelon mountains

The crew for the pig balloon--right next to the angry bird balloon

dawn patrol--my favorite!!!!

despite the budget crisis Smoky was still on duty

Noah's ark!

Noah and his ark

Zak's angry bird hat and the balloon it inspired

hat head

12th birthday treasure hunt

It's a clue!

following the treasure trail

Over hill and dale

fending off the mocking trolls

finally finding a present!  And more clues

Hooray!

And then we eat cake

Unless Janette has made a much prettier cake

First Day of School

Now in middle school

bring it on!

first grade

fourth grade

ready to ride his bike down