New Mexico Eve

Hi All!

In about 12 hours Blingdaddy and I will be boarding our flight to Albuquerque!  How neat is that?  We are both very excited to be taking this trip, and I am going to take so many pictures your heads are going to spin! :)  I am making up for all of the pictures I neglected to take when you were all little - in my defense, it was kind of costly to develop them all of the time, and I did not have access to an easily-mastered camera like I do now. :)

In any event, we should be able to FaceTime with those of you who have iPhones, as Blingdaddy decided to buy an iPad tonight to take with on the trip. :)  OMG!!!  So exciting!  Tom was working to set it all up for us - added on music, Angry Birds, and lots of other goodies.  It will probably take a while for me to understand how to use it all, but I shall persevere!

We are all still talking about how wonderful it was to have the entire family together last week!!! Thank you so much, Scott, for deciding to take your business trip and bring Julie, Hunter, and Stella along!  I still have to post my pictures from the visit, and I have more than one hundred, so maybe when I get back from Santa Fe I will have a lengthy session with the downloading.

Payton seems to be doing well after mixing it up with a mailbox on Sunday - thank heavens for bike helmets - Aimee and Matt, you are good parents to have insisted on his wearing one.  I know that they had started to come into use when you guys were little, but I never made much of them, since "we grew up just fine without them".  Phooey on that.  I can't even imagine the injuries Payton might have suffered if he'd not been wearing that now ruined helmet.

Now I must gather my knitting together - couldn't take a long trip without something to occupy my hands, now, could I?  Love you all, and wish you were coming along, but we shall just muddle on by ourselves and try to enjoy it! LOLOL