Visit to Albuquerque

A couple of weeks ago, Lucy, Jenna and I got to go see my sister's family in Albuquereque, and meet our newest cousin/niece, Kaitlyn. It was so much fun and the girls were great travelers. We wish we could live closer to all of our family, but it makes the visits that much sweeter and more precious when we go. Here are just some of our many fun moments in New Mexico.

Jenna got her own seat on the airplane (a first) and she made sure that her bear got to look out the window.

Jenna loves her cousins backyard. It has a great swingset and so many fun things to play with, not to mention fun people to play with too!
Jenna isn't quite ready to fly like Mikayla in the background.

We also took the train to Santa Fe. Here is everyone waiting for the train to come.

Riding the train

Me and Lucy

This is little baby Kaitlyn. She already has more hair than Lucy. I took more pictures of her, but I'll post those separately.

Lucy took cue from Kaitlyn and decided that the train was a great place to sleep.

The train

Mikayla and Tyler running down the tracks- good thing this was the end of the track!

Ready to explore Santa Fe.

I love the adobe buildings here. You can really see that Mexican influence everywhere you look in Santa Fe.

One day I did Audrey's hair like Jenna's. They both wore striped shirts and were little twins.

And of course when Mikayla came home, she wanted in on the action. She told Jeremy that doing hair like this was one of my best talents.

I also got to spend a lot of quality time with my sister. She is such an amazing person and the best sister. I always look forward to the time I can spend with her and learn from her great example. I love you Rebecca! She also took me to this excellent restaraunt, the Flying Star, which totally earned her five more gold stars in my book. Good food + good company= good time!

I also taught the kids a new song while I was there - Aroostashaw (I have no idea how it's spelled- c'mon it was a girl's camp song!) They looooved it. So did Jeremy, but he tried to not let me catch him on camera. Here's the end of this silly song...

Gonda family, we had so much fun seeing you guys. We love you and can't wait to see you guys again soon!