great grandpa

we visited great grandpa's grave site. the headstone was new.

on the way to santa fe

it was stunning.

san juan river

was a good place to fish until johnny hooked himself to the bone after pulling out a large rainbow trout. mark had ziggyman on his shoulders and ran towards the car when thwap, a branch slapped the poor kid in the forehead. john rode home with a fish hook lodged in his finger, no pants on and a poopy blanket on his lap and ziggy survived with nothing but a few scratches on his head.

more exploring

too much new mexican mexican food...ow!

flying

in the bluest sky ever.

halloween

crying bear went trick or treating and scored on a fat bag of candy. even though he despises his wig, he kept it on once he saw the candy rolling into his bag. sarah was a german maiden lady, hannah a pirate, ammon a grey ninja and john...well i don't know.

exploring

and of course we went around the town to explore. we went to a flea market where i tried navajo food (mutton on fry bread, and posole) in a make shift tent. to shiprock, the nuclear power plant and the aztec ruins.

great grandma

the highlight of the trip was seeing great grandma. she's a gem and everything you'd imagine a grandma to be, loving, kind, warm, cute and sweet as pie.

farmington

we ended up in farmington to stay with mark's uncle gary and aunt annie. gary & annie have 7 kids...7! we only got to hang out with 4 of them though, sam, hannah, ammon and sarah. they were a barrel of fun and ziggy's best friend for the past week was ammon who is in seventh grade. his favorite word right now is ammon, he can't stop saying it.

cuba

heading north we saw a lot of this. we stopped in a tiny town called cuba where mark's grandma grew up and ate at bruno's a new mexican restaurant. the food was the new mexican version of mexican food, kinda like how texans have tex-mex and california has mexi-cali. here's a picture of ziggyman dusting the snow off a patio chair.

albuquerque

we arrived in albuquerque. there was snow on sandia mountain and it was hella cold. we spent the morning exploring downtown where native americans were selling silver/turquoise jewelry for lots of money. don't i look cold?

we're back

safe and sound from new mexico! we had so much fun hanging out with family, sightseeing, halloweening and eating new mexican food. lots of updates coming soon but for now i'm going to bed.