Last Sat. night

We celebrated Dave's birthday last Saturday night. I really like this picture of Kaylene.

Someone is waiting for someone to drop something!

Callifornia visitors

Martha and Augie came for a visit last week and Zach came for a short while as well. Augie and Kaylene are busy bonding over K's shoe. We sure enjoyed having them together. The photos below are of Dad/Uncle Zach playing baby wrangler.

While in Albuquerque we visted UK's sister Karen. Had a great afternoon. We're sitting outside a little deli, owned and operated by a friend of hers. Good time.

Look at what we'e celebrating today!

Congratulations! 13 years!

Mass Ascention begins

Dawn Patrol

Albuquerque Balloon Festival

One of the reasons for visiting New Mexico was to attend the annual balloon festival. The festival lasts for a week and early every morning they launch many balloons into the air all at once. On this Sunday, they launched 600. It was quite a sight. It all begins very early in the morning. We were up at 3 am and at the launch site by 5am. They send up about 12 balloons just before daybreak. This is called the Dawn Patrol and because it's still pretty dark the balloons are all lit up in the night sky. Then at dawn the launch all the rest. We both got kinda teary, it is really beautiful. So much color. I'll just post a bunch of photos, though you can't really do the event justice. You really do, have to be there.

Hoover Dam

On the way to New Mexico from Las Vegas, we stopped to see the progress of the new bridge across Hoover Dam. It was incredible and quite lovely. It is quite an accomplishment, almost as much as it was to building it in the 1930's. It is due to open later this month.

Happy 39th Birthday, Dave

Las Vegas

The second leg of our trip was to Las Vegas. We hadn't been there since the mid 70's. Things have changed. =) We walked a lot, ate a lot, saw a show and saw the Bellagio fountains go off to music. Was pretty warm.

Me, in front of the "Brooklyn Bridge" at Hotel New York New York.

After breakfast at the Luxor in the "MORE" buffet. Don't know about more, but there was certainly a lot to chose from!

This was in the Wynn hotel. The color was incredible.

The backyard looked wonderful!!

Beginning of our trip......

We have just returned from a two week, 4000 mile road trip, which began in
So. Cal. for a visit to our daughter, s0n-in-law and grandson. Here are a few photos from the first few days with them. We celebrated Augie's first birthday with a fun party in their back yard. Lots of friends, food and little people. Good times.