AlbaTurkey

We recently returned from a trip out West to visit Danny's family. The last leg of the trip was to Albuquerque to visit Danny's sister and her new baby. Kate kept referring to it as "AlbaTurkey", so we'll go with that from now on.  We discovered that both of our kids apparently get mild altitude sickness, as both of them got ill on the trip. Michael puked all over the breakfast table at a restaurant, and Kate chose a more private route of puking all over herself in the car, which then caused hysterical screaming and dramatic dry-heaving from Michael, due to the smell.

The kids were both enamoured with Baby Isaac. We had to stop Michael from shoving the doll's baby bottle in his mouth.

Danny's parents with all their grandkids at Isaac's baptism. The only way to get Michael in this photo was to hang him upside down like the monkey that he is.

We went up to Santa Fe for the day, where we did some hiking, picnicking, Georgia O'Keefe musuem-ing, and celeb spotting. We were studying the trail maps at Hyde State Park when I realized that I was standing next to Harrison Ford and Calista Flockheart. We saw them several times as we all tried to make sense of the poor information provided by the state park regarding the hiking trails.  I have to say that Hans Solo is a very fit looking 67 year old.

One of the coolest things was a last minute visit from Uncle Trey! He is a pilot with the USAF and had to do a routine flight on Tuesday anyway, so he flew into ABQ to meet us for lunch.
This was easily the highlight of Michael's year, as he not only got to get up close to the airplane, but also got to clamor around inside the airplane and 'drive it'.