DefYing GraVity

Pancake Art

The kids and I made pancake art for family fun night. It was funny to see what we could come up with and then to guess what some of our creations were. Everyone's favorite was my fly/bee, which the kids insisted was a rabid squirrel!

Poor little rabid squirrel doesn't want his hind end eaten!

Our Christmas Page Tree

The kids and I wanted to do Christmas in a true desert fashion. We drove out to the desert, which wasn't hard to find, and decorated a Page Tree. We call these Page trees because they look like a cross between a Pine Tree and a Sage Bush. We had a blast and were sure that the few people that saw us were tempted to call the insane asylum!

Don't you just love the extension cord! We plugged the lights into the car!

The kids TOTALLY hammed it up!

The only thing left to do now is to decided between ghetto kids in the desert and redneck Wal-Mart for our Christmas cards!

There is no better way to end a road trip than with a serious jam session on your air guitar!

I love that he is helping his Sissy.




They were done with mom saying, just one more picture!

A boy and his reflections.

Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy!

The sights we see

The drive between Aztec, New Mexico and Durango, Colorado in the fall.

This last one is my favorite. I just love the sharp contrast between the fall colors of the trees and the desert behind them.

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Mesa Verde Colrado

The kids and I pondered over how hard life was back then.

They ate their spinach that morning!

Kris found this perfect face size hole in the rock wall and I decided that it was a primitive method of 'time out'!


Fire pit.

Minion Kitty in the desert.


Of course this is how she traveled most of the day. She loved it, spoiled cat!

This is inside that window in the previous picture.


This is the same hut, but looking up.

The coyote was really that close to our car. Kristina wanted to get out and pet it! We called it the chi-o-tee for the rest of the day and made sure to keep an good eye on Minion so she didn't become a chi-o-tee snack. I had to put the picture of our car in there because we were so excited when we realized that we had parked next to someone from Idaho! Click on the collage to enlarge the pictures.