Let the summer begin!

As has become our tradition, summer begins with a week (or two) up at my parent's cabin on the Blue.  This year was no exception! I was lucky enough to work from the cabin for the first week with the help of my parents watching the girls for most of the day and me getting up super early to work before the rest of the house got up. While I worked the girls played in the stream, went for walks with my parents, and (of course) did crafts.

Another annual tradition seems to be the "trip-to-the-river-mud-bath"  Where over the course of about 15 minutes the girls got muddier.

 And muddier....

 And muddier...

Until they were both pretty much completely enveloped in mud, which by they way they were calling their war paint in the great battle against the crawdads. (A war that sadly we loose every year, although I did manage to catch one in a net and see to it that its ecosystem-disrupting days were over)

 

On Friday Patrick joined us up at the cabin for the weekend. The goal was to relax, which we ended up doing a pretty good job of on Saturday, with a visit to the Alpine car show and lunch at the Tal Wiwi. Sunday, however, was not so relaxing, with Patrick and Dad spending all day Sunday sawing large trees that had fallen across the road to my parent's Alpine place. Meanwhile, us girls were hard at work picnicking and critiquing their chainsaw techniques....

Then on Tuesday Patrick and I headed to Santa Fe for an anniversary trip and the girls continued to play at the cabin with Mina and Papa.

Santa Fe was a fabulous combination of art, food and scenery! Highlights included a rafting trip on the Rio Grande, Tapas, and the Meow Wolk gallery....

There is more to tell about the way home and the catwalk... but I'll save that for my next post!