Trip to New Mexico

19 August 2012

My sister, Ashley, and I loaded up our 5 kids and headed down to New Mexico to see my parents the first week of August. While we were there we got to go to the fair, see all 3 of my grandmas, hang out with my parents, and visit some good friends.

The car ride down was....not so fun. 12 hours being crammed in a car is a really long time for kids. They did great, all things considering, but we were ready to be done once we got there.
While we were there, my Grandma Bloomfield came up for my Uncle Omer's funeral. It was so good to get to see her and wasn't planned! We got to visit with her for the afternoon before she headed out to go back to Mesa. We also got to see my Aunt Doylene (who spoiled our kids), my Grandma Sue, and my Great Grandma Wilson. While we were all together we decided to take a 5 generation picture with the kids.

Carson's 5 Generation Picture

Brooklyn's 5 Generation Picture

Brooklyn and her Great-Great-Grandma Wilson

Brook requested that Papa take the kids to Big Bounce so they could play on the blowup slides and bounce houses. They had a ton of fun! This time Carson actually knew what to do and he was able to climb up all of the slides by himself! He thought the blow up dog was so funny and he kept tackling it.

Ashley and I took the kids and ate lunch at Dairy Queen with Jamie, Brydon, Kyce, Brody, and Emrey. The kids had so much fun playing together. We tried to take a picture of them all, but its hard to get 8 little kids to all look at the same camera at the same time.
We went to the fair and got to see all of the animals and ride on Papa's golf cart! Ashley and I got to eat a Navajo Taco (people in Idaho just don't know how to make them right) and some funnel cake. Carson had some roasted corn and he LOVED it!! He ate the whole thing by himself! They also had a kids discovery station set up and the kids played with the big hula hoop bubbles. Carson loves to play with bubbles so he was pretty excited when he got to play with GIANT bubbles. Brooklyn was getting really fussy, so I took her home and Carson went with Papa and Aunt Ashley to ride the rides. He had a great time!

The week went way too fast and before we knew it we were back in the car heading home. We got stopped in the Spanish Fork canyon due to a really bad accident so we let the kids out to stretch. We were only a few cars back from the accident and by the time we could go again the line of cars was so long we couldn't see the end.