So, I was looking through some ABQ photos and I found some gems! These were in a Sept. - Nov. file. By then, of 2003, we had settled in quite nicely. Micah started a Mother's Day Out at a local preschool. He went only on Fridays for a few hours and loved it! I loved it because it gave him time to play with other kids. A few of those kids were in his kindergarten class the next year.
September and October were busy in Albuquerque. We went with Grandmomma and Grandpoppa to the fair. This must have been our first time there because we have a lot of fair pictures from a different trip. This one rained. We spent a lot of time dodging showers, taking cover, and doing activities when there was a break in rain. It was fun to be together though!
We had actually been to Balloon Fiesta before and since we lived here now, we didn't have to get up at the crack of dawn for everything. Aunt Winna took this picture! I'm not sure how the timing worked out for her with school, but she's in another picture from this batch.
The following picture is from an early zoo trip. The boys did discover the jumping area right away. I love that we went to the zoo so much in ABQ. We had an annual membership and we used it well. Levi and I would sometimes go there on early release (school) day and he even had a birthday there!
Picture proof that we did do pumpkins and costumes with our boys! Again, this was our first year in ABQ. The other year, I found matching spider sweaters at a second hand store and Aunt Winna made spider masks out of black paper plates and pipe cleaners!
That Little Tikes car got a lot of use! The black truck (from Gigi - it had belonged to cousin October) and gas station were added in Kentucky. The infamous duck boots are in these pictures too!
These kinds of pictures were pretty typical of M and L's early years. Fairs, special events/places, visits from Aunt Winna, pumpkins.
A final shot - M's beginning of photography. (At this point, I don't think I had even considered the boys would be taking pictures on their phones one day!)
