King Tut with GG

Today GG (Georgeous Grandma took us to see King Tut). It was interesting to see how a civilization worshiped some kid beginning from the age of nine until he died at age 19. Oh, and for those of you who I haven't seen for a couple of months. Yes, I am in the process of going blond again. I'm hoping to have time this week to get on it and add a bunch of super blond highlights. I did have a horrible eyebrown incindent about 3 weeks ago. I bleached them so blond that Dan said I looked like I didn't have ANY eyebrows. It was funny. It also took me NINE times of dying them brown to make the dang dye stick. So, I have brown eyebrows and blondish hair. Oh well, I'm always a work in progress. We stopped in at the kids parts of the museum to make a little clay pot with Morgan. Radio Disney was there hosting lots of activities. Morgan (umm... I mean... we won the scavenger hunt. I think that we were supposed to let the little kids win. I told that to Dan and he said, "We are. We are letting THIS (pointing to Morgan) little kid win." I think that we got a few evil looks from some of the parents. Morgan ended up winning a Mickey Mouse stuffed animal. The answer to the prize was monkey. That's a work that he can say. So, technically he won.

GG treated us to lunch at Seventeen Seventeen. Mom ordered green eggs and ham. It was delicious. I had the tenderloin and Dan had yummy chicken on a waffle. Thanks GG!

Elmo Halloween 2008!

It's hard to believe that a year has passed since last Halloween. Morgan has a major major major infatuation with Elmo. It was the obvious choice for 2008. He pronounces it "MoMo". What makes this so ironic is that Zoey already calls Morgan MoMo. I had no idea what Zoey was going to be for Halloween this year. How perfect! She was Zoe. (It's spelled differently than Zoey). Zoe is one of Elmo's good friends on Sesame Street. Who knew? It's one of those parent things. Becky, Babs and Zoey/Zoe swung by yesterday before heading out to their church festival. So cute! We joke that this is Morgan's future wife.

Hmmm... a bit of a breakdown. This MUST be captured on camera.

Gaga & Popppy set up shop in lawn chairs on their front yard. That's the smart way to do it around here. Our neighborhood is crawling with kids. We had to switch sides of the street because there were too many kids! It was funny to watch the lazy parents slowly drive down the side of the street following their kids. Who knows? Maybe I'll be that lazy parent some day.

We met up with baby Jonathan, Jennifer and Jason. Jennifer is having a little girl in a few short months.

Our friends the Colley's had a great Halloween party the day after Halloween. Morgan went crazy in the bounce house. He can climb the stairs and slide down the slide all by himself. That Elmo costume was put to good use this year!

Ruidoso Trip

We had a great time in Ruidoso! I got to the airport early so that Morgan and I could have breakfast. I swear, that kiddo takes about 30-45 minutes per meal. We ate breakfast at Chili's. We sat by the railing so that Mr. Morgan was able to yell "hi!" to EVERYONE that walked by. Did everyone know that they have a kiddo area at the airport??!?! Ummm.... yea! Ok, so here's a mom thing. In the back of my mind I kept thinking... "When is this kid going to have his morning poo?" I know that is gross. But, it's a fact of life. And, I was only thinking this because I had visions of myself trying to clean up a big pooey mess on the plane. Luckily the poo happened while Morgan was playing in the play yard. (Hence the goofy strained look on his face.) Dad and Lynn are on a board that hosted a charity golf tournament for our troops overseas. Mr. Morgan went wild on the course and then I decided that I had had enough of trapsing all over the place in high heals. So, we bowed out until the silent auction later that night.
There is a huge Indian population in Ruidoso, NM. They are very tied into their heritage. We took Morgan to an Indian Pow Wow at the Inn of the Mountain gods Resort. It was super crowded. Here is a picture of just one of the magnificant costumes. These things were unreal. Morgan wore his Elmo costume.


Dad and Lynn surprised me with at massage and facial at a great spa in town. It was fabulous! There was also a children's Halloween festival in town. They had fishing games, face painting, bounce houses... all the typical kiddo festival stuff. Morgan had a black cat painted on his hand instead of his face so that he could see it.





But, it ended up on his face anyway when he smeared it all over the place. You can see the remnants here.

Lynn got in the spirit and had a moon and stars on her face!

Dad and Lynn friends, Rick & Ann, own an alpaca farm. They've sold some of these little guys for $500,000 for one little guy! So, they are pretty exotic. They also have chickens running around. Morgan was most interested in their insane cat that decided to plaster himself to my legs. I sure all of you know how much of a cat fan I am (insert MAJOR sarcasm here).

Dad and I drove up to the ski resort. The snow will come any day now. The view is beautiful. You can see the town below. There were tons of deer on the road. It was a fabulous trip. Thanks Dad and Lynn!