Who's that knocking at my backdoor?!

While eating breakfast this morning, i heard a strange knocking and asked abbey what she was doing. She replied, "nothing." Then I realized we had a little quail trying to peck it's way through the glass. Worried about it, i tried to "save" it by making sure it made it back into the desert over the wall. A few minutes later there it was again! Then we tried to feed it (for the record, quails have NO idea what bread is!). It left and returned again!!! We had fun watching it. Not something you see everyday. We really love that our house is at the back of the neighborhood and we have nothing but desert behind us. I hope it's like that for a long time!

Isn't it pretty?! I told Abbey we could it, she was not at all amused!

Old Bones in Old El Paso

We are still continuing our quest to see all the old stuff we can. So this weekend we went to see the grave of John Wesley Hardin. Why?! Don't know. know the story, love the Bob Dylan song and he's up the freeway so what the heck!! It was a very sad, dry and ugly cemetery. super old stuff though and that's what we dig. Well... not literally!

notice the wind giving abbey willy wonka hair!

old man and lobster hands silloette! What in the world?!

Blog stalking pays off!!! who doesn't love FREE stuff?!

I found this blog stalking today. Thanks Michelle for posting a link to the site i "stole" this from! Super cute stuff.

Click Here or on logo!!

(i just learned to link picts so sorry i never tried before...too easy!)

We will miss you Flat Stanley!

We had the priviledge of having a new friend, Flat Stanley come and stay with us!

Kassidy's old friend from AZ was doing a school project about a book they read where the boy made himself flat so he could mail himself to all kinds of different places. So the class made their own little selves. we were lucky enough to get him to come and play. It was quite the project. We took him to a couple places that were interesting. here are a few shots.

Going on a bike ride bt the Franklin Mountains (which are the end of the Rockies!)
Playing Army for the day

As tall as a missle (or so it looks)

Off to work with Brian

This was a super great idea that we may do as a summer project. they had a journal that you write in to keep track of what he did. it gets passed to as many people as it can then the kids document where and what he did. I love it! Thanks Zane for letting us help!

What the "hole"?!!!

Calling all self made designers!!!!

Have a hault in the home decor. I have this strange "niche" below my stairs. I am calling out for ideas. here is what my aunt and i thought. please weigh in

1. put a long bench with stoage under it. ptoblrm is hitting head on right side!

2. seal off to make solid wall and knock out other wall to make huge storage in the garage.

What do you think? they said it was originally for tv's but then they got to big but they never changed the design!

HeLp PLeaSe

seriously, are you seriously serious?!!!!

Enlarge to read!!!

Found this on a friends page. This person can't be serious, can they?! I wish you could make a paper that can reach out and slap someone! yikes

I'm Wyatt Earp... no, I am...

The one day it wasn't windy and nasty we went to tombstone! I haven't been there for about 11 years or so. the girls thought it was neat. they got their first cap guns. It was a total tourist trap so we being the cheap-o's that we are didn't go into much. we just wandered (or should i say meandered)

Notice the cast is gone!!!! she couldn't get enough of moving that arm after 4 weeks in a long cast. it healed so well we didn't need another one! YEE-HAW

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