Thursday, July 28, 2011

Autrey's Birthday & 4th of July in Ruidoso, NM

The day after my last post, many moons ago, we moved our stuff in and had carpet installed upstairs. On the same day. Everything we own was crammed into the 1st floor. It looked like this: Yikes. Thankfully, Matt and Allyson are good sports about everyone hanging out at their house. Dylan loves to play with Tommy. This is a video of Dylan 'racing' Tommy to Mimi:


...and winning! (But I think Tommy was more interested in watching Dylan.)




3 days later we drove with Mona and Tommy to Nana's in Ruidoso to spend Autrey's 29th birthday and the 4th of July weekend. We split the drive there into 2 days. Everywhere we stopped people were raving about the adorable 'twins'. They do look similar and dress alike. I expected this reaction, especially since Matt and Allyson weren't there, but it happens even when they are. Matt, Allyson, and baby Tyler came 2 days later. These two are pretty funny together. At the hotel they 'talked' to each other on the room phones:Dylan hadn't ever seen a phone like this before and was a little confused at first in this video:








Doug, Lori, Maggie, and baby Joey joined us in New Mexico. This was the first time we had met Joey. Autrey affectionately called him "The Silverback" because he is solid with little neck. He is such a cutie: The boys loved Maggie's shoes for some reason. Look at their feet. Goobers:



The rental house had a nice hot tub:
Cool handle, apparently:

Come on. Gimme a real smile: Too much:


That's better:





We rode bikes in the morning. The hills were brutal. Don't know what I expected. Hello, it's the mountains. Dylan didn't mind, of course:
Mimi and Papa with the 5 kiddos. I'm not including all the outtakes, but they are pretty funny. At the Rio Ruidoso:




















Right next to the river they had pony rides:
Dylan was the only rookie. Took him a minute or two, but he warmed up:
I got a video of all 3 kids riding:



In this one you can hear Dylan say "Yee haw!" and "Howdy!"


Next to the pony rides was a 'train' ride. We thought it was going to be a short one, but they returned 30 minutes later. Autrey and I had gotten an ice cream to share. I had to eat all of it while he was gone. What? It was melting.
We love Nana! She steals everyone's 'sugar'.
And she has amazing baby sleeping mojo:Mimi got the kids the cutest matching 4th of July outfits. Love boys' flag shoes!
Dylan and I flew straight to Utah for reunions and Meagan and Ken's wedding on the 4th. Dylan is a pretty good traveler, I must say.
Pictures of our Utah trip will be pending until my dad compiles the pictures from everyone's cameras and sends me a CD. No pressure. *cough, cough* :)

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