Elk, drama club, and melons

Elk season started this last tuesday. I took the week off to go, so off I ran to the New Mexico mountains. It looks alot different up there than it is down here in the desert. There are rolling hills with lots of trees and small grassy meadows. I would have taken a picture but I left the camera at home. Anyway... I'd like to say that I don't have a picture of my elk on here because I didn't have the camera, but the truth is I didn't even see an elk. I did get to watch a bunch of deer for about an hour. That was pretty cool, they were about 60 feet from me munching away on the grass. Next year Mindy and I both are going to put in for tags, so maybe we'll have better luck. Of course if it goes like it normally does, Mindy will tag out and I'll be left with nothing except listening to her brag about it for the rest of our lives.

Hanna is in full swing now with school and her many activities. She is now going to gymnastics 2 times a week, drama club (like she really needs to be taught drama!), and she was picked by her teacher to be on the student council. Its keeping her busy, Mindy too for that matter.

Tommy just had his one year checkup. All is good, he got a bunch of shots that he didn't like, but other than that he weighs 22 lbs (40th percentile), is 30" tall (50th percentile), and his head is 48.5 cm - the 95th percintile... its no wonder he can't walk yet, that monster melon on top of his neck keeps toppling him over. I'm suprised he can even stand for as long as he does!

Hanna goes to her first concert, Tommy Turns One

Last week, Hanna had a chance to go to her first concert. The NM State fair is here, and some neighbors of ours had some tickets and asked Hanna to go along. The saw Corbin Blue and Vanessa Hutchins. For those of you without young kids, they are two of the stars from High School Musical, and for those of you without any kids, or don't ever talk to a kid, High School Musical is this generations version of Grease. Oh, by the way, she didn't just get free tickets, she got free front row tickets. No concert will ever be the same for her!

Rock on!!

WWWWHHHHOOOOOO!!!!!

Its been a year already, hard to believe but Tommy turns one today. We had a couple people over yesterday to open a present or two and have some cake. Pretty tame party, although Tommy did feel it necessary to attend his party in his underwear... Guess he thought he had to spice it up somehow! Got a few pictures below, I think his favorite toy so far is the balloons Mindy picked up, followed by the boxes the real toys came in!

Tommy makes a mess of his cake!

Once he figured out what to do with the wierd colored boxes he was pretty excited.

More presents!