That "other guy"

So, we get to my Nana's house on Friday night and eat our quite delicious, and much looked forward to, green chili cheeseburgers from Lotaburger. It didn't take long before my five year old nephew, Ethan, became bored. Afterall, there were only adults in the house, and Heaven only knows what they were talking about! He goes and gets a blanket and lays it on the floor...presumably to lay down with. He then goes to get a pillow, but WAIT! He's stopped in his tracks! Kerry, also bored with the adult conversation...or perhaps just feeling a little out numbered in the estrogen filled house, takes Ethan's blanket and makes a "fort" with a chair and Nana's treadmill. Kerry then proceeds to scour the house for rubberbands. Do any of you see where this might be going? Foolishly (because she's not married to my husband and doesn't see what is coming next) my sister gives him some hair rubberbands. (At this point I must also interject an ongoing argument with my sister and husband. He calls them "hair do-dahs", and she calls them "hair bobs"...) Then, yes you see it coming, Kerry proceeds to teach Ethan how to shoot rubberbands across the room. (Knowing what was coming, I had already moved the breakables out of the line of fire) Ethan, being a very quick study, is having a blast! Kerry launches a rubberband clear into the dining room (where the above mentioned estrogen is chatting it up). Ethan, being in fear of his life due to early understanding of what estrogen can do to a little boy that is being naughty, immediately runs into the dining room to declare to his mother "Mommy! I just want you to know that I didn't do that! It was that other guy!". He, of course, now knows that the "other guy" is his Uncle Kerry....he also seemed to catch on quickly that when an older seemingly "wiser" man puts you up to something, that you don't seem to catch the flack of the estrogen laden women in the house! :D He also later learned that his Uncle Kerry can "juggle lizards" and "take the stinger out of a bee"! I'm not sure which little boy had the most fun on our visit...Uncle Kerry or Ethan!

New Mexico has warm weather!

Well, I had only two weeks off before going back to school for the semester. (Sad days) BUT, I got to spend some of that time back "home" in New Mexico! (Happy days) We did indeed surprise Nana for her birthday. She actually got a little upset..."I didn't wash my hair!", "I haven't gone to the market!", "I need to get the lawn fertilized" (Okay, that last one almost got me. I mean, who really wants to visit an 85 year old woman when she hasn't even bothered to fertilize her yard?!) I told her that I was there to collect on the potato salad that she'd promised me. I also told her that I would accept banana pudding as a second choice (oh, who am I kidding? I could eat that banana pudding for breakfast lunch and dinner!...oh, yeah...I DID!!) The great thing is that I wasn't even on the ground in New Mexico for an hour before I had a green chili cheeseburger from Lotaburger in my hot little hand...it's just a little piece of heaven right here on earth! (VERY happy days) When we left Idaho, I snapped some pics of the snow that had fallen on the mountains just the night before! I was so happy to go to New Mexico and not even use the very light jacket that I packed!

The second day home, we went to the store to get sandwich fixings for the lunch party that Nana still had no idea about. My gutless sister (who in all fairness had gotten quite the butt chewing for not spilling the beans to Nana) met us there, so she wouldn't have to face the ol' lady alone.
We arrived for lunch (which included some freshly prepared potato salad and banana pudding, BTW) and shortly after the Arizona and Colorado branches of the family showed up. Talk about ticked! THAT threw her over the edge! Later, we all went to Old Town Albuquerque for some authentic mexican food complete with sopapillas! She wasn't too happy about the cake that we'd smuggled in, but found her sense of humor when my "kind" sister took a picture of her toenails, the lights in the restaraunt, my cousins shoes, etc.....that's what I get for pushing my camera at her and asking her to go out and take some pics of the family while I finished eating all of the sopapillas that could be found on, or even just near, our table! (In spite of the camera happenings...VERY happy day indeed!)

We also went to church in Edgewood with all of our friends, saw a nephew play baseball, ate dinner in Los Lunas with some old friends, and shopped a little while we were there!

Tomorrow..... all about "that other guy"!