Summer 2018: Kayaking on the Rio Grande River

Ever since we went kayaking in Hawaii, we wanted to have our own kayaks! So Mike started looking around and online, and we ended up buying 6 adult kayaks and one used youth kayak. We discovered that there's really a river in Albuquerque! The Rio Grande may be muddy and shallow, but it's deep enough to float a kayak, and there's peace and quiet on the river and plenty of winged wild life to enjoy. We've also seen a herd of cows running along the river and have seen clumps of horse manure while paddling down the river!

Loading the Jeep with a few kayaks atop our new boat rack

Rob Sorensen helped Mike the first time we tried this

We took Patti Waseta on our second trip down the Rio Grande River

        

Mike, doing what he loves best

  

An Eagle atop a barren tree

  

A pretty white crane or loon on the river

  

A cool Blue Heron

Summer 2018: Random photo dump

No real theme to this blog posting, so I'll call it a random photo dump. I hate to throw away photos, especially photos of my family, so I put these pictures together in this posting.

Awesome lesson visual from our ward Sister Missionaries regarding the Restored Gospel

A visit to see sweet baby Everett Tsosie and his parents, Everett and Valerie

May 13th: Festive Mother's Day gift from Jessica and her family. Jess also made a yummy dinner for us that Sunday

LOTS of chocolate chip walnut cookies we baked and packaged for
the High Desert Relief Society sisters for Mother's Day

Paying a Sunday visit to my friend, Sheryl Kearsley after church

  

Mike excited about our first online kayak purchases. We had bought two blue kayaks at Costco first

June 6th: Lovely Shauna with niece Sofie during lunch date at Dion's

Adorable cousins, Elise Hobbs and Hannah Dunlap playing dolls under the table

Silly Hudson and brother Beau

 Cute boy Tyler Hobbs enjoying his pizza

The new TV stand that Jessica and Sebastian bought for their living room

The new sectional sofa they bought for their living room to replace the white one

And here's the mama and sweet baby who will be enjoying the new sofa

Little doll Sofie Dunlap

Tyler tries out my new kayak during a visit

Tyler looks like a pro!

Tyler and Elise playing at Grandma's house

Love these sweet kids!

Beautiful little Elise

Tyler with his usual go-to dinner, pancakes with syrup and whipped cream

I took a carload of canned goods to the Roadrunner Food Bank after cleaning out my pantries
I had cases of food that were expired but still perfectly usable

Japanese Shrimp tempura that we snarfed down at home--thank you Costco!

My mom getting one of many eye treatments for Retinal Vein Occlusion in her left eye

My poor mamasan--she's had floaters in her eyes all year

Jess and her dad goofing around in his new kayaks

Inside paper bags I put a bottle of water, fruit snacks, a granola bar, cheese or peanut
butter crackers, and trail mix to hand out to homeless people on the streets of Albuquerque