Catching Up

I'm a little behind on updating the blog!  This is the busiest time of the year for us, and definitely my favorite!  I love all of the Fall activities.  We just got back from a pretty cool trip, and I'll post more on that later.  But first I didn't want to forget some of the other things we did the first weekend of October.

The first weekend of October marks the opening of the International Balloon Fiesta.  On the first Friday, they do something called "Albuquerque Aloft," where the hot air balloons launch from various schools around the area.  We took the kids to Aurora's school first thing on the morning to see two balloons go up.  They got yummy hot chocolate and had an up close view of the balloon crews putting the balloons together, blowing them up, and taking off.  It was fun!

I'm really glad we were able to do that because the Balloon Fiesta was a bit of a bust for us this year.  Since we had our trip planned for the second half of the Fiesta, that weekend was our only chance to go and weather just didn't cooperate.  So at least they got to see a couple from her school!

This is Alex's impression of a balloon with his hands.  I didn't have the heart to tell him that it looks like he's doing the sign for 'poop'!

We also had fun decorating for Halloween.  I'm big on decorating for holidays so we had a great time putting everything out and playing dress-up with some of the old costumes.  Afterwards we watched "Spookley the Square Pumpkin" and read, "If You're a Monster and You Know It."  

Even Freddie got in on the fun!

Since Balloon Fiesta was a bust, we decided to go with Grandma S to see "The Legend of the Guardians."  The movie seemed a bit dark to me but the kids loved it and Alex pretended to be an owl for days afterwards!  It was pretty cute!

Overall it was a great weekend!  I will post about our awesome trip soon!