No, I'm NOT Kidding!

Yep, it happened again. When is this going to stop! So, this is the aftermath of Mason's latest trip to the ER (are we up to 5?) and his 3rd broken arm. Same arm. Different spot. Blue again. He insisted on either that or bright pink. This break wasn't as bad, luckily. Yes, we have had tests done to make sure his bones aren't weak. Turns out he is just very accident prone. This time he tried to climb up a cement fountain and pulled in down on top of himself. It landed on his hand, and we are just glad that the growth plate in his hand appears to be okay - that was the doctor's initial concern. Only three weeks in the cast this time - hooray!

Balloon Glowdeo 2009

The balloon glow was really fun! A little crazy with all the kids and Russ out of town, but tons of fun! I didn't realize how close they let people get to the balloons, and they are so huge when you get right up to them. It was fun to watch them get all set up at the beginning too! We love to watch the Pepsi can fly - it just doesn't look like it should be up in the air.

Balloons everywhere - all week long!

So, one of the funnest parts about balloon fiesta week is that you see balloons everywhere all week long! About half the days just walking Cole to school we would see them all over. These are just a few of the ones we saw from our house. The bunny flew right over our roof - you can hear the sound of the air blowing to fill up the balloons. Ask the boys and they'll give you a sound demonstration:) Apparantly, the fish landed in the road near our house and blocked traffic for a while. We've heard lots of interesting ballooning stories this week, and we've seen some rough landings with the chasers desperately trying to hang on to the baskets. Russ may have thought when we first got here that it would be fun to get into ballooning, but I think we're all convinced we'll just settle for one ride sometime - and even that could be risky!

Our First Balloon Fiesta Week!

So, this is the biggest event that happens in Albuquerque, and it definitely lived up to all the hype! What a fun week! I've heard some people say they love balloon fiesta week because it's the beginning of all the fall fun and the holidays, and I can see why they feel that way. There's lots of excitement, and then we've got Halloween and Thanksgiving and Christmas right around the corner. I have so many pictures of the balloons, I'll just have to get some them on in a few posts.

This first one is of all the kids in the back of the car stuck in traffic for maybe an hour. We left the house at 5:30 a.m. Apparantly, we should have left earlier because we didn't even get into the park that morning by the time the balloons went up around 7:00. We ended up watching it from a gas station parking lot with our new friends the McEntires who were so nice to show us the ropes and let us tag along. Here's me with Amber and the two babies born on the same day!

So, I don't know the numbers for sure, but I think there were somewhere around 600 or 700 balloons. It was so fun to see so many at once! The boys were talking about going to watch hot air balloons with Kirra for weeks after, and I learned a great new way to make breakfast burritos (thanks Amber!) - they were delicious, and I wasn't going to get up early to make them the old standard way. What a fun way to start off the week!