Albuquerque has the largest Hot Air Balloon Festival in the world each October. One of the most fun evenings at the festival is the Special Shapes Glow-deo. This is where all the special shaped balloons illuminate at night. Some of the cool special shapes are Darth Vader, Mr. Potato Head, a Daisy, a Bald Eagle, Noah's Ark, Champagne Bottle...truly any shape that you can imagine. We had some hiccups getting there last year, but this year we were able to see all the balloons. Here are a couple of pictures....although, it truly doesn't capture the evening.
We enrolled our puppy, Tessa, into an eight week obedience training in August. Besides totally embarrassing us, the classes were uneventful. She can sit, stay and lay down---of course those were all things she could do before the class. Although she didn't pick up any good party tricks, they let her graduate anyway. She actually won the Gold Medal for the obstacle course. The commencement ceremony was October 14th and we are so proud :)
On October 17th, we headed to Texas. My sister, Gayle, is getting married in April and needed one more opinion before she purchased her wedding dress. She picked a beautiful dress and she will be such a stunning bride. We would put up pictures of her, but we don't want to spoil the surprise. While the girls were shopping, John, Steve (my Dad) and Ricky (my Brother) headed to Cabella's---you could almost hear the male grunting! Then we met up for some Dallas Stars Hockey, which was a great game even though the Stars lost.
We spent Halloween with John's mom and Ray. We love staying in on Halloween so we can pass out candy to the neighbor kids. We made chili and cornbread and watched Young Frankstein---our Halloween tradition!
