new mexico

we went to new mexico in april to visit ashley, jeremy, and bryce. sophie could not have been more excited to see bryce. we had lots of fun visiting and checking out santa fe and albuquerque. we got there saturday morning and went to the flea market, a car tour of downtown albuquerque, the mall with the disney store, a sweet new burger place, and watched a movie at ash and jeremy's. bryce and sophie did so good playing together while we watched a movie...minus the one time i found them jumping on the bed with my camera and eating my sugar babies.

sophie was in heaven at the disney store. she had never been before and i'm pretty sure she thought she was in disneyland. she was going nuts with all the princess dressed and shoes. i told her she could pick something out and she had such a hard time deciding. she finally narrowed it down to a flynn rider doll or pascal to go with her rapunzel. she picked pascal and took him everywhere. bryce picked out this minnie mouse cup for her. she loves it!

sunday we went to church and took a car tour of santa fe and old town santa fe. it was a cool, old city with some neat buildings.

old town santa fe.

monday we went to this park with a giant slide, visited jeremy's work in espanola, went shopping, to the mall to ride the carousel and swimming. 

sophie thought this slide was super cool, surprisingly. she gets scared of the baby slides at the park. ash and i had jd take the kids down the slide since we were both 30ish weeks pregnant.

the first time, jd took them down at the same time. everyone made it out ok.

the next time around soph wanted to go by herself. what? who is this kid?

and she made it out ok again. i love the look on her face. priceless.

the last time down didn't go so well...

jd went down with bryce and somehow got turned around on the way down. they both shot out head first at the end and landed on the ground. luckily, jd caught bryce. then came sophie...also on her back and head first. yikes! luckily no one got hurt, but it sure scared me. that's why i didn't get any pictures after this. i was too worried about everyone coming out of the slide.

cousins.

they also had lots of fun at the carousel at the mall. they were the only ones on and they got a nice long ride.

after the mall we headed to the swimming pool. unfortunately, sophie had a couple of accidents there and had a rough night. she was going down a little frog slide, but got scared and tried to climb off. she slipped and fell down the stairs backwards. poor girl.

ash and i went shopping for baby stuff and found the kids some new pajamas. here they are in the new jammies and matching slippers.

they had so much fun and were so excited to see each other. poor bryce was so sad when we went home. thanks for letting us come visit!