Same stuff, different day

Not much to report, we extended here in ABQ for another 3 months. Which puts us here till sometime in May. Other than that it's just our daily stuff. Here's some new pics of the "daily stuff"

Here's what happens when he gets sent to time out. It seems that it's just easier to go to sleep that endure punishment.

Some days we chase roadrunners

Or take trips to the aquarium. Here are the cute door handles to the aquarium. Keegan has fun but because we've been there so many times it's a quick activity. Which makes it great for both of us.

Here is a pic of my favorite little fish at the aquarium. Can you see him?? He's there I promise. It's the cutest little flounder that almost completely matches the sand on the bottom. Sometimes I can't find him.

We took ANOTHER picture in this bubble into the big aquarium.

We went to It'z. Kind of like Chuck E Cheese but with much better food and better games and no smelly sweaty kid smell. This boy of mine loves the skee-ball.

With all our tickets from It'z we had enough for an inflatable chair for Keegans room. Made me dizzy to blow it up.

So that's ABQ for the last couple of weeks.

Hole N'' The Rock

After our fun visit home we left a day early to miss a snow storm. Nothing says fun like Spanish Fork Canyon covered in snow....in the dark. So we ended up leaving and missing the storm. Since we weren't in a hurry we spent the night in Moab. We've driven through 9 times in the last year and never stopped for longer than it takes to eat breakfast.

On the south end of town there is this. It used to be the home of some crazy guy and his wife. He spent 15 years blasting a 5000 sq ft home out of the rock. Part of it is now a gift shop but the rest is still just the way it was when the couple lived there.

He carved this on the outside of the "house"

It's now just a place for tourists to stop and has a "general store" and a bunch of other "Art" around the property

Mater was on display

This golfer statue is made of golf club parts

Here is another example of the metal work here. This jeep is covered with liscense plates. And if you notice the wheels are all made of random metal things

See the "tire"

A front view. Not sure what the huge bone is doing on top.

For "Pa"

"Pa" Wanted more pictures so here they are.

Keegan and I spent the afternoon playing in the leaves. Not sure what that smile is but oh well.

Another leaf picture. He waits till I pile up all the leaves and then runs as fast as he can all the from the other end of the lawn area.

We went to the aquarium last week, here he is on the large starfish that is new.

So there you have it, new pictures for "Pa" I'll post more for you as soon as I take some.

Christmas in Old Town

Last night they lit the Old Town Christmas Tree. While we weren't there last night, we headed down tonight for dinner and to walk around. We went to a new Mexican restaraunt that one of the waitresses also works with Josh at the hospital. The food was good, and it was really festive in there. So festive in-fact, Santa and Mrs. Claus were at the very next table. You should have seen the look on Keegans face, he had a smile from ear to ear.

Old Town was pretty empty tonight, the city was having their big Christmas Light Parade just a couple of blocks over. We did walk over to see what was going on, but we must have been at the end of the route. It was taking forever and Keegan got tired of waiting so we left, it was so crowded we wouldn't have been able to see much.

Scottsdale and Phoenix

On Sunday night Josh asked if we should head over to Scottsdale to visit Tyler. Of course I said yes, so I called Tyler and let him know that Josh has Tues- Thurs off and asked if we can come visit, he says yes, so it's a plan. Monday morning I jump out of bed because I realize Josh is late for work, turns out that he got called off (somehow I didn't hear the phone). So at 8:00 am we call Tyler and let him know we are leaving right then instead of the next day. So we threw some clothes in a bag and we hit the road.

The drive is actually really nice. Once we got into AZ, we took a different route than last time, it was so pretty!!! Who knew AZ was pretty, it was all trees and mountains until about 40 miles outside of Scottsdale.

We got in Monday afternoon and already knew where we were going for dinner. Tyler got off work and we headed straight over to Cafe Rio. Mmmm

The next day while we were just relaxing at Tylers house he and I decided to go get a pedicure. It was so nice!! Right by the pedicure place was

this....

Keegan has his own eating establishment.

Wednesday we headed over to the Phoenix Zoo. It was really nice with lots of shade!! All of the animal enclosures are really big , and they have a fun petting zoo section were Keegan had to pet every single one of the goats in there.

The first thing we did was go to this little animal show, it was pretty cheesy but Keegan had fun. Here he is with a strange smile.


Muscle Man on a huge tree stump

Keegs in a kangaroo pouch

Riding a lion

Keegan on the elephant statues, he looks pretty relaxed

This was in a cute little village area, the animals were off display but I thought it was a cute place for a photo and he is almost smiling normal. (what you don't see is the HUGE bite of pretzel that he is somehow hiding in his mouth)

A lion

A view of the desert in the zoo

And we are done. We got there early and were able to get out of there before it got too warm.

We had a great time in Scottsdale with Tyler, lots of relaxing, lots of good food and even a Sprinkles Cupcake! so good!! And how can you forget a second trip to Rio.

Natural History Museum

We went to the Natural History Museum today. Because of the holiday it was free to get in, all the more reason to go right? Josh had never been so we had a first-timer with us.

Here is a picture of "Stan" chomping on Keegan.

Here is Keegan all the way in the mouth of "Stan" the T-Rex

when we were here last year I took pictures of Keegan in-front of the dinosaur and once I got home I was soooo dissapointed that I didn't think of this "pose" while we were there. I was so excited today to be able to do this one. (I'm a dork, I know)

Cute little painted sauropod


Here is the Seismosaurus that was found here in NM, just NE of ABQ

Keegan told me I had to take this picture too. I couldn't leave him out.

And one more on the way out of the museum because I noticed he had his eyes closed in the other one I took.

Halloween Fun

We've had a lot of fun this Halloween, the weather is great and Keegan is cute.

Our little Ninja waiting for the train to the Zoo Boo

Keegan wanted his mommy to carve a mummy

Josh carved Darth

And Scooby-Doo

It was such a nice day we went to the Botanical Gardens. We found some eggs in the giant tree. Keegan was certain they were dino eggs.

A giant water spigot

Boarded up window on the castle in the Botanical Gardens

Giant terra-cotta pots

Giant spade

the entrance to the castle

Pumpkin Carving 2010

We love carving pumpkins, we do it every year. Most years we carve more than one each.

This year Keegan wanted to do his own. He didn't realize I was going to make him get the guts out. He isn't happy about it.

He is yelling at me "DON'T TAKE MY PICTURE WHILE I'M TOUCHING GUTS!!!"
Really upset that this is "too gross"

The gross part is over and on to the carving. He did it mostly himself, I just helped with the cutting a bit especially the corners.

Keegans pumpkin (we didn't have a candle, so it's a headlamp in there)

Josh's pumpkin

Mine, I wasn't too excited about any of the patterns. My next one will be better I promise.