SAVANNA'S B~DAY

SAVANNA'S B~DAY PARTY

I don't know why it has taken so long to update, but here are pics from Savi's birthday. She had a makeup and dress up party. They girls got their hair fixed, and dressed up and did a fashion show. It was fun. And it was fun to have Olivia (and Addison, Will and Amy) here to share it with us!

YOU HAVE TO CLICK "OLDER POSTS" AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE TO SEE OUR ROSWELL PICTURES.

AMAZING CARLSBAD CAVERNS

The top pic is the "Chinese Theatre" the second is the "Doll's Theatre" and the bottom is the "Rock of Ages". It looked like it was a ribbon layered up instead of down.

I love the pic of our little "Spelunkers". Also there is a pic above that looks like a....well lets say a baby bottle top, or part of the female anatomy. Mark says he didn't notice....I don't believe him. : )

The long skinny formation was the "Witches Finger". Savanna did not think this was a good name. The photo that looks very spiny was the view looking straight up. I was thinking the whole time we were in there that an earth quake would be REALLY bad!

CARLSBAD CAVERNS

Audrey really loved the "Vanilla Ice Cream" formations. I thought the whales mouth was amazing! There are only 3 miles of trail that anyone can go on. The rest of the caverns were 6 and up or 12 and up.

CARLSBAD CAVERNS

It would never be possible for me to express the awesomeness of these caves, and my camera could never do them justice! We walked for 3 miles under the earth and never came close to seeing all that these caves have to offer. It takes you 750 feet under the earth. Savanna and Jake walked all of it for the most part. The very last bit required piggy back rides, but I was really proud of them. Jake was in awe...that is to say he just looked around and was totally quiet the whole time we were under ground. We saw every kind of formation possible and were continually amazed by what mother nature created! This is just the entrance of the cave.

CARLSBAD, NM

I asked each of the kids to pose cute on the rock in front of a little water fall. When Jake got up there he did his pose and when I asked what he was doing he just said "Lion". The mountain lions I am assuming where his favorite part!

Roswell wasn't quite as exciting as I had hoped. Savanna threw up in the International Alien Museum, and we spent a lot of time in the hotel. But we did find some alien shops, and the girls got alien t-shirts. We went to a living Desert where we walked through animals and plants native to New Mexico. It was very cool!

When you are in New Mexico, you HAVE to buy a sombrero! And Jakob did! Found one at the dollar store : ) My sweet friend Dacia drove 2 hours from Albequerque to have dinner with us. The bottome picture is Alleged metal debria from the Alleged Roswell crash site from 1947.

SPRING BREAK 2010 cont...

We visited Dennison, TX where Mark's grandpa grew up. We went to the cemetary and found his greatgrand parents. It was neat for the kids and I and Mark to see some of his "roots".