Went down to Grandpa’s for our annual Corned Beef and Cabbage dinner. Delicious and fun as always.

We chilled out today with a barbecue for lunch and then went to the park to hang out with Grandpa Lind and Grandpa Keeler. Tommy made some potato skins and some other goodies for the show and we vegged out on the couch.  Good times.

We rounded up all our crap and headed up to NM for a week of Christmas vacation last Tuesday. While we were home, Tom put up some lights for my mom and I took a stab at scraping some linoleum. (AWFUL) We also took 2 trips out to Hueco Tanks to try and send a climb we’re working on – needless to say it didn’t go down and so now we’re planning on returning at the end of January. 🙂 It was a nice week to relax and hang out with mom and Joe and also see some close relatives. It didn’t snow, but it was still fairly cold – AND we made out with some good loot. We got home this afternoon and the honeymoon’s already over because we start our renovations on the master bathroom tomorrow – Tommy has another week off is cracking the whip! HA! Should be fun.

We had an unconventional Halloween this year. We didn’t take Henry trick or treating but rather did some stuff around the house, went climbing and had some friends over for dinner. We had homemade pumpkin soup, zuchinni squares, roasted pumpkin seeds, homemade donuts and apple cider! YOWZA!! So delicious and super fun!

We spontaneously decided this morning that we would run up the mountain and go for a hike on the butterfly trail. I’ve never been on it but Tommy said he and his friends hiked it a while ago and that there was some wreckage along the way of an airplane crash. It was an F-86 which is what interested me because that’s what my dad used to fly. He would have loved seeing it. You can read up on the crash here (http://www.aircraftarchaeology.com/F-86D%20Sabre%20Dog.htm).

It was a fun hike overall, but we bit off a little more than we could chew as we are not in as good of shape as we used to be! Tomorrow is going to be painful!