We have had a busy few months since Anderson's b-day on 9/5.
First, we headed off to Albuquerque to visit with Ted, Marie, Massimo, Tazio (the 2 uber-cute sons of T & M). They remained our friends even after Anderson had his major meltdown one night and had many of us up for a while.
Though the Balloon Fiesta (the hot-air balloon festival) was the original reason we told T & M we were coming, we did also get Journey tickets for the night so that we could all experience Journey live. Little did we know that Albuquerque would get 1/4 of it's annual rainfall the very night we were outside and listening to great 80s music...the little guys were tough, but we gave in after 1-1.5 hrs!
Anderson loved getting access to new toys - he was especially enamored with a 'talking grill'....
Here is Tazio, uber-cute son #1.
We also hit the aquarium in Albequerque...(Anderson only experienced a mini-meltdown here...)
And here is Massimo (uber-cute son #2)....
You would think that attending a famous balloon festival would have us brimming over with excess shots of colorful and creative hot air balloons....no such luck... Instead, we have a picture of the world-famous Spam-mobile...
One of the many attractions at the festival was a chain saw 'sculpture' competition. Essentially, take a block of wood, a chainsaw, and make something nice. There were some unbelievable creations. The sponsor of the competition saw Anderson as an ideal marketing target, so he got a free cap. To be honest, he didn't seem that thrilled with his new acquisition...
But the horses were another story...!
In early November, we hightailed it to Atlanta for a surprise 40th wedding anniversary party for my parents. They are still maintaining that they knew nothing about it, so apparently we were actually able to pull off a real surprise. Norbert/Masako did an excellent job with finding the venue (and who knew that we would also end up with a Slovak waiter!). Looking at our pictures, I realize that we didn't do a very good job of taking a variety of shots. My apologies to our family/friends for the paltry offerings!
A couple of weeks ago, we went to San Francisco for a fertility society convention. It was hilarious to watch Anderson try to get a hula hoop in motion on the kid's playground.
The city is gorgeous, however...and now it's much more apparent why people spend so much to live there!
The downside to our beautiful, well-located hotel room was that it was TINY. The only real playing area was on the bed. This got old fast...VERY fast. After 2 nights in a row of Anderson meltdowns, Jason/Anderson made an early departure 5:30 in the AM on day 4.
Last weekend, we had a brief visit from Matt, June, and Rivers (Anderson's future girlfriend - at 3.5 yrs, an older woman). Hopefully we have enticed them with enough Wii to have a competition at our next visit. We also had lunch with Carol last week, and she very patiently endured an active/impatient little boy.
Finally, this past week we celebrated Thanksgiving with my parents in Austin. Anderson got some good grandparent time and plenty of turkey.
Our next challenges include continuing with the renovations on our current house, cramming for my oral boards (April), recovering from a lost wallet 2 weeks ago (found w/o the money inside) as well as a hit/run to my newish car :(
Life is busy, but everything is still going pretty well all things considered!
1 comment:
Dang that Anderson is cute! You are my hero for travelling so much with a 1 yr old. Oh ... and why does Mossimo remind me of Howard?! :P
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