You Rock!

We have been doing A LOT of car travel lately. Leo is an awsome kid in the car. I seriously think that we could drive straight through from California to New Mexico in one shot with him. He loves to color or just look out the window.

Gorilla's in the Desert

The Museum at NMSU has a Family Craft on Saturday afternoons. The craft is based upon the current exhibits. Right now there's an exhibit from Diane Fossey, including many of her own personal photo's of the gorillas. The craft was making gorilla masks and Leo enjoyed it very much. Aaron lost interest quickly and just wanted to jump in the puddles.

This is a Pagemaps sketch but I can't find it to show you.

Ways to have fun

Martel's dad was from New Mexico and still has lots of family there. One afternoon we went to his cousin's house. Leo and Aaron played Guitar Hero with Martel's cousin's daughter. Leo thought we was doing a great job, when in reality Revee was playing.
This is another A Page 4 All Seasons layout

Aaron

One of the many places we went on our whirlwind tour was Albuquerque. We had to get up at 5:00 am to go to the Balloon Fiesta (we were in Santa Fe that morning) and afterwards we went over to the Albuquerque Plaza for a little bit. Aaron was getting pretty tired (read cranky) so I set him on a short wall and played a game of peek-a-boo with him. He was so stinkin cute that I just had to snap some pictures.

This is an old A Page 4 All Seasons layout that I hadn't had the right pictures for. These were perfect!

Santa Fe Children's Museum

Here's another layout from the Santa Fe Children's Museum although, it's really more about my husband and our boys. As I was flipping through the 300+ pictures I took while we were there, I noticed that Martel was in 2/3rds of them. I got to thinking that I really love how he loves to do things like this with the boys. He's at his happiest when hanging out and playing with them (or when working on his cars, but that's another post). We spent hours at the museum and he just patiently followed them around and let them do whatever and play wherever. I had to drag them all out of there because I was hungry and it was past lunch time.

This is another take on a layout posted in a magazine.

Bubbles!!!!!!

Here's another A Page 4 All Seasons layout. The title, "Explore your world" is perfect for some of the pictures from the Santa Fe Children's Museum. It was truly amazing. If you have small children, and are in Santa Fe, I highly recommend going. Plan on getting there when they open and staying a while.

They have this huge table and all sorts of tools to make giant bubbles. They also have a cut out tractor tire with the bubble solution so you can make a bubble around you. Leo and I tried but our bubbles popped before we could get them over our heads.

Who needs snow?

Another thing we did on our trip to New Mexico was go to White Sands National Monument. I had been wanting to go there for years and finally got the opportunity. We bought sleds at the Visitor Center and headed out to the Heart of the Dunes, where the best dunes are. It was amazing! They can get pretty high, around 30 feet. That makes for some great sledding! We got there early, and it was a weekday, so we had the place to ourselves. The best thing about sledding on the sand is that it's not cold. The downside is that that the sand gets into everything!

This layout was based on one I saw in a magazine. Sorry I don't have a picture of it to post.