El Paso Trip

Last week we went to El Paso to visit my family. We were so busy while we were there. First we went to Andrew's cousin Ryan's birthday party. My sister in law has a costume party for his birthday with a bounce house, pinata, games and lots of fun. Andrew had a blast!

The next day we went to White Sands. This is one of my most favorite places to go. I have gone there pretty much every year since I was born and it is the most fun. This year it was a little wet, it had rained earlier in the day. It actually worked out pretty good for us, since the wet sand made the sand sleds really fast. I have a great picture of Andrew and my mom going down the hill, but I am saving it for my "Wordless Wednesday" tomorrow. Andrew had so much fun! He would run up and down the dunes, got buried in the sand, and of course he had to taste it. After riding down the hill a couple of times with other people Andrew insisted on going down the hill on the sled by himself. One of the pictures is of him sliding down alone. Needless to say he went really really fast and then wouldn't go down again. When we first got there he kept saying it was snow, which is understandable, because it does look like snow. If you have never been to White Sands you should try and go. There is no place like it.

The day after White Sands we went to the El Paso Zoo with Ryan and William. Ryan is 6 months older than Andrew and William is 1 year younger. The boys had such a good time together. One of the best parts of the zoo were the seals. There is a new viewing tank there and you can see the seals swim right up to the glass. Andrew thought that that was "so cool"!

The rest of time we just visited with everyone. "The People" come and stay at my mom's everyday after school so Andrew got his "people fix". He really liked the fact that they would go outside and play with him. Mommy like that too. He loved being at Grandma and Granddad's house has been really missing everyone. He asks all the time when we get in the car "go see John Michael and The People?"

He did really well on both flights. Slept pretty much from gate to gate, which is why we fly out at 6 am. We did use one of those new FDA approved seat belts for Andrew. It was so much easier than lugging the car seat on the plane. This was just a seat belt for him that fit in our carry on. We did have one little incident which I am sure some of you have already read about in my last post.

I will probably post pictures from this trip for the next week or so. That way I am not putting like 20 pictures in one post.