Halloween

Halloween this year was comprised of: ward Halloween party, trunk-or-treating, carving pumpkins, dressing up (Nathan was a leopard), eating lots of candy (which was mostly the only thing that Nathan cared about). Yum.

Visit from Aunt Lindsay

Last week we were so lucky to have Aunt Lindsay come to stay with us for a few days. She drove up with Great Grandma Dick (Sean's Grandma) who stayed at Tom and Carolyn's house. We loved having her here and also enjoyed our visits with Grandma as well. One of the days they were here we took a fun field trip to the Albuquerque Bio Park. We went to the aquarium and then walked around the Botanic Gardens, which has a fun train display. Nathan LOVED all the sea life. He kept saying "feesh, mo feesh" (translation: "fish, more fish"). There was a big puffer fish in the big tank that just hung out right by the glass. It looked like it was a friendly thing, just happy for all the attention.

We are New Mexicans

We are now New Mexicans. We moved out on Sept 29 and got to New Mexico on Oct 1st. our stuff didn't arrive for about 4 days, so we camped out in the front room all together for a few nights. The kids loved wandering around checking out the closets and the upstairs.
We moved right as the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta was going on. It is the world's premier hot air balloon event. We got up ridiculously early on Saturday, Oct 9th and headed to Balloon Fiesta park. There was definitely traffic, but we figured that we planned it just about perfect (not too early, so we didn't have to stand around in the frigid air for too long, but just in time to get a little snack and find a place to stand to watch the balloons take off). It was pretty awesome! Nathan was a little sad at first (I think he was cold and not quite adjusted to the whole move yet), but he eventually came around and had fun pulling the wagon that we rented. We got to stand right there on the field with all of the balloons that are taking off all around. We saw fun-shaped balloons (Darth Vader, SpongeBob, a GIANT cow, the Wells Fargo Wagon and lots more). There were about 500 balloons that took off that morning. On our way back to the car we stopped and petted the police horses that were all over the park. Nathan thought this was pretty great. Well worth the wee early hours.