Balloon Fiesta/ Conference Weekend final

The weekend was Fantastic. We really enjoyed having family come visit us and the kids were in la la land. Just a warning there are going to be many photos in this post.

Balloon Fiesta was a blast even with the early wake up call.


So many Giants and people watching them fly away. The funniest thing I saw the whole time was the Darth Vader Balloon.


It was there last year but this year they went all out and had this guy


in front of it and these guys
guarding it. They were only missing the music.

Eva and Alexander enjoyed the balloons for probably 30 minutes and then just played with Garrett the entire time. Garrett is officially Alexander's favorite person at the moment.you can see Alexander look up at Garrett in amazement, by the way this is pretty much what happened most of the weekend. Eva and Alexander followed Garrett around and Mallory held Jamison. I think Mallory was Jamison's favorite because she always got him to be calm.

This was Jamison the whole morning. He just slept and we were happy.

Beckam found a balloon he liked

We were all a bit tired so we sat around waiting for donuts :)

Eva dressed for warmer weather.
We lucked out this year and got some pretty warm weather
(last year we were freezing and Eva was screaming because of cold hands so we over compensated this year)

Showing how close we got to the balloons
Here is the balloon they were standing in front of.
This is my favorite shot because of the moon.

And this is the final shot.
I think its the funniest shot of the day.
Alexander was being a frog and I caught it.

Conference was another story. Our internet went out on Friday night and stayed out until Monday morning. How LAME is that. We felt so bad because we only got bits and peices of conference so now everyone will have to watch it on their own. This is my favorite time of year. The weather turns cooler the colors change and conference gives that boost we all need.

That was our weekend with our fun visitors now its back to regular life which is going to be great with the holidays coming.

Miriam

Balloon Fiesta/Conference/Reeves weekend Part One

This weekend was fun. We had some Reeves and Goulding's come down to visit us and we loved it. It was Conference weekend and the start of balloon fiesta. We had a very early wake up time of 430 which made for some very tired people at the end of the day (me the most) but it was worth it. I haven't uploaded any photos from our camera but I did upload some of Ralph's so here are some to explain the event.

We attended what is called mass ascension. It was the first one this year so many of the balloons didn't go up for some reason. However here is the first balloon we saw walking into the park:

They were getting ready to make it go up. As you can see the sun was not all the way up yet.

I LOVE this picture. It shows the first row of balloons getting ready. I always think it looks like they are all asleep in their beds waiting to get up. (yes that is a huge field of green grass in New Mexico)
Then they wake up and are ready to go. I can't remember what this group was called but rainbow was in their name.
Here are two twinner balloons getting ready to go up. This picture really shows you the crowds. Its like being at one of those huge concerts with many different bands except there is no backstage and you can go where ever you want :)

This was my favorite ref person. I am glad Ralph got a photo of him. These guys run around and blow whistles telling the balloons when it is their turn to fly.

Here is a shot of me. Yep I allowed one of me in here. I had the camera up most of the time

and here is a lovely shot of the balloons. Its so colorful and I love seeing all the balloons in the park waiting to be blown up and waiting to fly away. I will have more to write in the next post which probably won't be until tomorrow. I still need to upload our camera too.
I highly recommend if you ever plan on visiting Albuquerque to come on Balloon Fiesta week. It really is a site to see and you can stay at our house.

Miriam