Lake Mead

We (including Sheila) were off on our next trip to meet Ben's brother Will and his family, his youngest sister Amanda and Heidi's 2 oldest boys at the lake. We stayed on a house boat for a couple days, Will brought his ski boat so there was lots of boat rides, knee boarding, and skiing. Amelia loved getting in the water to swim even though it made her teeth chatter. The house boat had a slide that the older kids enjoyed. We really enjoyed ourselves and our company but we're happy to be back home from all our travels

Happy 75th Uncle Bart!

A little history about Alamogordo (Spanish word meaning "fat cottonwood") It's somewhere in the middle of southern New Mexico and is home to White Sands and Holloman Air Force Base. I'm sure there's plenty more history than I'm aware of but that's all I got!! This is where my Uncle Bart and Aunt Sharon live and it's where we traveled to celebrate my Uncle Bart's 75th birthday. We were very exited to make this trip since most of my family would be there (minus some cousins, a brother and nephews.) We ate too much, played hard, visited and shared plenty of laughs and storeys to hopefully last us till next time we can all be together again. We had a great time!!

Mozart in the works

I can't take credit for these photos, they were taken by Sheila when we were at the Drew's house. I have it set up where I can download her photos on our computer for this reason! Can I just say, there is no way this kid gets any musical talent from my side of the family (that I'm aware of) now on Ben's side they are more musically inclined. If any of you have been around Carter you know the kid has a set of lungs, pair that with his new found skills on the piano and we may have the youngest American Idol! Just look at his form.

Cuteness!

Kids say the darndest things... We were sitting down at dinner the other night and as always Amelia is sitting on her legs. So we say to her like we always do, (maybe not in this order) sit down, sit on your bottom, put your legs down, she's heard it all. She proceeds to finally listen and we continue eating. Then out of no where she say "my feet are glittering!" Ben and I look at each other with a puzzled look and realise that her feet must have fallen asleep so we try our best to describe this to her and she says "so when my feet are glittering they must need to go to bed." Okay, we laughed so hard and thought how stink n' cute is that!? Gotta love that little girl!