The Backyard

Can I tell you how excited I am for our backyard! It's our little piece of heaven I tell ya...with grass. GRASS!:) The Skipper and Sue helped us shovel in new dirt for the garden. Sue and I planted peas and carrots. It is so fun to see the peas coming up and I am excited to eat it too:) As for the carrots....I don't think they will come up, the poor things. I was so excited to get out of work a couple hours early and head to pick up more plants to add to the garden.
Picture before the planting....

Got the plants in and all done

The lovely peas coming up

Our giant apricot tree with lots and lots of fruit

One of 3 apple trees. Not sure what type yet.....

number 2 and 3 apple trees

I planted sunflower seeds here against this wall. They are suppose to get 6 feet or taller. I am really excited for them

Another view of the backyard. The old owners left us the picnic table, score! And the 2 chairs are birthday gifts for Ty from his folks.

As I finished this all up Ty had just gotten home from work. He took one look at me and had disgust written all over his face. He asked why I had dirt all over my face. Just bonding with my garden I guess. Actually I was too lazy to walk inside the house for scissors to cut off the plastic labels for the plants. So I used my teeth to rip 'em off:)

Spring chores with the Skipper and Sue

We were excited for Ty's parents to come down and visit us in our new place. They were kind enough to help us get some house spring chores done....BLESS THEM! They helped us haul some nice dirt into our garden plots for planting, Ty and his dad worked on our loverly swap coolers and got them running, and Sue and I planted some carrots and peas. We also had fun feeding our faces with great company, hiking up in the foothills, fishing, basketball games, and oh so much more:)

Love when the cactus bloom here in the desert, they are beautiful!

The view from our short hike up in the foothills. Our house is only a 5 minute walk and we love it!

Admiring the view

I wished I would have taken more pics of the other things we did and got done....oh well, there is always next time right:) Thanks Skipper and Sue for helping us ole New Mexicans out, we sure love ya.

The Big One

Ty now holds the record in this household for the biggest fish caught here in New Mexico Land. This beauty caught in Cochiti Lake came in at 35.5 inches long and weighing 10 pounds! It was especially a great catch because we had to fish in a different area than we would have liked due to 3-4 other boats fishing in the area. After Ty had a good fight with the fish and we were finally able to get it in the boat, some of the other fishermen came in and stole our spot....jerks:) Well they didn't catch anything and then moved on. Lots of fun bringing in those fish!

I didn't bring the camera with us to the lake....oh well. But we got plenty here at home:)

 Now that's a fisherman's face. Way to go Ty!

The trip to see Andrew home:)

Our drive to The Grand canyon

Passed by this beauty.....memories of Mount Rushmore. This was just minutes from the Grand Canyon

Pictures just don't do it justice....it made us both stop and took our breaths away. Along with the beauty there was great anxiety. Notice in the picture below. On the edge you can see some people trying to get as close as they can for picture. Even kids were running around close to the edge......didn't like that part too much

One of the hikes. LOVED IT! If we ever go again we want to finish this one. Takes you from the rim all the way down to the river.

Mules even passed us!

The waiting game for Andrew to show up. Here they are unloading their gear. We stood around for about 2 hours then went back to my parents car and took a nap. They finally showed up around 3 in the morning.

The mad dash of everyone getting to their marine and also getting their gear

On our way back to NM we took a little detour through here. Nice little stop to break up the drive.