Day 4- Tennis, Swim, Veg....

...AND WHITE SANDS!!!!!!!!

As stated in the title, we did the regular this Sunday Morning- actually we even watched some of the Sunday Morning Program which is celebrating 30 years on air.

The day was pretty chill until we headed out to White Sands National Park to do some sand sledding!

The whole evening was sooooo awesome! We packed up an Italian lunch of bread from Zeffiro's in town, and procuito(sp?), salami and lots of cheese...oh yeah and Smoking Loon wine too! The dunes look like snow in the winter, and the sand is finer than any other sand that I have experienced. Aaron said it was like walking on velvet. We hiked out a little ways and found a killer dune with a great incline and blazed a trail down it. The more you use the same trail, the faster you go. Not to mention the friends of my mom's that loaned us the sleds waxed them up before we left- so they were super slick! Some other people followed after us, and used our trail so it kept getting faster. The Scenery was spectacular too. This post will have ALL White Sands picutres since it was the highlight of our day and freakin awesome!

Las Cruces Day Three- Saturday

Saturday was another great day. Getting up is getting harder, especially with the thought of work on the horizon...but I trying not to think about that quite yet!

Today, of course, started with tennis. We are averaging about 2-3 hours of tennis per morning. This morning Aaron signed up for a lesson with the club pro to work on his serve, which proved very helpful! Getting a new serve in tennis is always a difficult taks. It's new moves throws you off, but once you get in the groove of the motion things start to even out and your serve really starts to come along. Aaron is on the new end of the serve, but each time he serves you can see the progession into an awesome swing starting to shine through.

The day also took us on some more errands, and a great stop for lunch at Sonic! Yum Cherry Slush!!!!!!!! I am still drinking it as I am sitting here writing this- YUMMMMM and no freezing headache yet!!!!!

I had to share this great video with you of Katie, unbeknowenst to her, rocking out on film to knock three times. I hope you get a good laugh out of this as we all did, watching her.... It's all in good fun kate! hahahah!

Las Cruces Day Two

Well lets just say Friday was a much better day than a slighty chaotic Wednesday and Thursday.

We Played some more tennis, as per usual and ran some errands to the mall and target, etc, etc, etc.

In the evening we dined at this AWESOME local pizza place- gourmet like pizza- that makes thier own bread and everything- think Boudin's meets CPK. It's called Zeffiro's and I can't stress to you how absolutely fantastic the food was and the bread and the desert and the staff! Super YUM!

Mom bought us all tickets to see a play at one of the community theatre, called Look Homeward Angel...and we did, at intermission....the spa was much more tempting than the less than mediocre acting we were painfully sitting through! I always feel bad about leaving a preformance early, especially at a small venue where your presence or lack thereof is clearly apparent....but we just couldn't take it any more!!!!!!

Anyway, another great day full of great memories!

1+1+1 Does NOT Equal TWO!

Well, it must be said that we got off to a really rocky start for our vacation ala Resorte De Borsodi~~

First Katie and Aaron were 40 minutes late picking me up from work so that we could catch our flight.... I am not even going to get into WHY that happened... Then we practically ran through the ariport....but made our flight with 15 minutes to spare. We had GOOD, yes Good layover in Pheonix but were greated with only TWO bags when we got to El Paso....we checked three... and guess who's bag was missing? MINE! OF COURSE!!! So needless to say, Wednesay evening was anything less than ideal for the start of what should be a great and relaxing vacation.

Thursday morning we got up, expecting that my bag would arrive around 1 in the after noon. We played some great tennis, and then mid way through our "match" I got a call

"Mrs. D- We have yet to locate your baggage, but are doing our best and will notify you when we have found it."

To which I replied:

"You told me last night that you knew where it was and that it would be on the first flight out from Pheonix this morning! What do you mean 'you don't know where it is'?!!

We exchanged a few more words which consisted of me going out and buying some items that they would reimburse me for, etc. So we finished up our tennis match, went home, went swimming, and then headed out to the Mall to pick up some stuff for me. On our way to the mall we get a call from Emery- The airline just called and my bag should be at the house in 30 minutes~! THANK GOD! Not that I was not looking forward to shopping, but it was just a releif to know that I had all my own clothes and that I wouldn't have to go comando any more! hahaha~!

We did pick up a few things at the mall, including a super cute one piece bathing suit~! Woo hoo!

A happy end to the last two days....THANK GOD~!~~

P.S. We just got back from dinner at Chope's- a sizth generation restaurant that was converted from an old house! It was AMAZING mexican food and super Margarita's- 18.00 for a pitcher that was good for 5+ people! YUM!

To Mothers House We GO!

We are heading to my mom's for our annual trip, this year a little later than last. We are really excited to get to spend time with her and Emery and are really looking forward warm days, filled with Tennis and more!

We are brining some extra baggage along with us too, as Katie will be in tow for her last trip to see mom before she departs for Bristol England for a year! I can't believe we won't see her for a year! That is crazy!!!! But never fear, we have big plans a-brewing...plans to see Katie just slightly before a year! woo hoo!

Stay tuned for updates from our trip DAILY! YES! DAILY!!!!