Monday, September 20, 2010

Taking it easy


Not to be cocky or anything, but I've been feeling like Super Mom lately.  I'm finally doing all the things I've been wanting to do- cooking dinner every night, keeping a clean house, exercising, doing my hair and make-up, getting out of the house and seeing new places/ things, plus the little things like decorating the apartment, and printing out pictures for refrigerator.  I know these are just common things that most of you moms do already, I just didn't feel like myself when I was in Logan and now I do- It fells great!
We've kept the adventures mild the last couple of weekends due to Todds many field trips.  He has enjoyed wandering along arroyos in the desert of southern New Mexico.  Other than that we visited the outlet stores in El Paso and went to the library. I attempted to take Joseph to one of the museums at NMSU today just to find out they aren't open on Mondays- oh well, we'll try again another day.
Now here's where you get the benefit of checking out our blog, most of the pictures we take with Todds camera don't get published on Facebook but will occasionally get posted on here.
Joseph modeling his new jeans and hat- Calvin Klein baby

Everyone here goes crazy over his eyes- well I guess they are pretty amazing

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Hueco Tanks- Labor Day Weekend


If these look familiar it's because we've been to this place before, we liked it enough to buy a season pass.  It's not quite the right season for exploring here so once we found Todds bouldering area, we just hung out in the shade.
Joseph drawing in the dirt with a rock

Hatch Chile Festival- Labor Day Weekend

This roof is silver, it just looks red because it's covered in red chilies.
Sat. we checked out the Hatch Chile Festival.  We were disappointed.  It was basically your typical cheap town carnival with a New Mexico twist. We bought some roasted green chilies and made salsa and enchiladas with them. We'll go again next year to visit the town coffee shop and buy some chilies, we just won't bother with the festival.
Roasted green chilies

A taste of Mexico. The guy I bought this from started at $65 and dropped the price a couple of times until he was at $20, "because this is the last day and then we're going back to Mexico", I had gotten that exact line from another guy five minutes earlier at a different booth. So I asked him if he'd do $15, I probably could have got him down to $10, I guess I need to work on my negotiating skills.
Tornado Fries
Hot and Dusty
Read the menu- we weren't daring enough to try anything crazy but I'm kicking myself for not trying the Jalapeno Lemonade- Oh well next year.  Joseph wanted to touch the KFC statue so bad but was scared. He'd inch closer then when we encouraged him he'd back up- he's too cute!