Christmas, trip to NM, new doggie

Wow--we took 134 pictures from Christmas and the week following. I will post just a few as a snapshot of our celebrations. We spent Christmas Day here with the kids opening their Santa gifts and playing with their new toys. Gran and Gramps arrived late morning and shared a noon meal with us. Then we packed up and left at 5:00am for New Mexico. 1/2 way there in Amarillo we stopped to meet a German Shorthaired Pointer from the Texas GSP Rescue group (from whom we adopted Belle in 2006). This doggie's name is Kass. We fell in love with her and decided on Monday to adopt her. We picked her up in Amarillo on our way home to Fort Worth. We named her Ginger. (I'll elaborate more in a later post)

We spent 4 full days in Los Alamos. Some of the highlights: Christmas with my side of the family; Bandelier's new visitor center; an anniversary night at a B&B in Chimayo; Carter and Grammy going to see "Yogi Bear"; Daddy and Carter going to the Bradbury Science Museum; and 17" of snow! We did the road trip 12 hours each way instead of spending the night in Amarillo as we had in the past. It was very, very long. But we are thankful we got to go and are looking forward to my mom's visit here in early February for Hayden's birthday (3).

Ginger :)

Lego dune buggy

snow!

Hayden opening gifts @ Grammy's

siblings @ Christmas

Lego Wii controller!