santa fe

we spent the last week in santa fe, new mexico with some of our favorite people.  we joined our church just at the time a new sunday school class was forming last summer.  over the past year we have become the directors of the class and have watched it grow from it's infancy to a large class of wonderful people who have quickly become some of our very best friends.  we are so happy to have such a special group to share our lives with, and this week, we got to spend time with a group of friends (and their kids) from our class.  it was so fun.

santa fe is a place jay and i both grew up going.  we have also been many times together, but this was our first time in a few years.  the weather is SO MUCH COOLER there!  we did things like wear long sleeves, jeans, even FLEECES, people, haha!  we saw rain, too, something we haven't seen in so long.  but my favorite part of going to santa fe (or any mountain town, for that matter) is the hikes.  every morning i got up, took a jog through town in the crisp, cool weather, came back, joined the rest of the crew, and we loaded up the kids and headed for the hills!  it was so much fun.

the second favorite item on the list in santa fe is the food!  holy geez, it's amazing. you can get green chilies on everything and i can assure you, i did.  give me that food, a nice prickly pear margarita and a porch, and i am in heaven.

and last, the shopping in this place is unreal.  indian market was going on while we were there, so we got to spend a lot of time perusing the galleries and enjoying art, plus beautiful handmade jewelry and lots of great clothes.  link made out like a bandit, of course.  and i came home with nada.  seems to be the case often, these days!

lunch at the shed - best enchiladas EVER.

cutest pic.  ever.

wait, maybe this is.  link and little finley shared a lot of kisses this trip!

the lean in

he is looking so grown up to me these days.  :(

all smiles.  he LOVED hiking.  

la bamba at rancho de chimayo.

ellie, link, and finley. best buds.

no more photos, mom!  for real!

prickly pear margies and capri suns all around, please.

so thanks to camille, scott (aka ezra), cameron, garrett, scott d, audrey, and of course to little finley and sweet ellie, for such a fantastic trip!  we loved every minute of it, especially the beautiful time at the house in the evenings.  can't wait to play "celebrity" again soon.  hopefully the cops won't show up this time (true story, we were being so loud playing a game that the neighbors called the cops on us! and at like 11pm on a saturday night! whoops, but i think the cops were more embarrassed than we were when they saw the "wrecking crew" they were coming to bust - pretty lame for them, i'm sure.  we mentioned to them that there were three babies asleep in the house and they just mumbled something about seeing toys and strollers and walked off.  :)).  haha.  anyway, love you guys!  thanks for sharing in a great week.