Fall - Winter

 Stake activity in Taos on a member's farm

 McCall's Pumpkin patch for the first time. LOVED it!

 Corn Maze at McCall's (with Kaylee, Avery's church friend)

 3 Cinderellas + Tristan for Trick-or-treating (with Deandra, Avery's best friend from school)

 Tristan learning to dress himself

 Aunt Karen's visit from Pennsylvania. Visiting the bug museum in Santa Fe and getting to hold some neat creatures. I loved seeing the chameleon's long tongue when he ate his food.

A short hike overlooking the cars coming up the main hill 

Toothless. ("All I want for Christmas...") 

We have about 6 pictures of Tristan doing this to the dog. All at different times. 

Family photo

Day around town on the trolley and at the park. 

 The girls' first time ice skating!

 Hike by Fireman park with Tristan's best buddy, James

 Same hike, different time with Aspen

Sledding at Urban park 

 Christmas morning!

 Christmas break project: new shelving for the garage

Bowling at cities of gold 

Aspen's birthday party: Happy 5th! We made snow ice cream :)

Frequent past-time 

Walking to the horse-stable playground with best friends: Naomi & James 

Walking the path by East Park 

Hiking the trail off of Trinity and that neighborhood 

Painting barbie doll furniture that dad made :) 

Avery's birthday party (went skating at the methodist church with a few friends and came home for pizza and cake): Happy 7th! 

Ear's pierced at Bennett's Jewelry in town. WooHoo!

Easter 2016 (Truitt was a wee baby) 

Summer 2015

White Rock Canyon Rim Trail 

 Tsankawi Trail (Bandelier outskirts)

 same as above

Grand Opening of the new Nature Center! 

 Off-roading Los Alamos

Rendija Trail - Cabra Loop (near Cemetery) 

same as above 

Brian's backpacking trip to San Pedro Parks

 Slip-n-slide! (Look at that lawn :)

 Avery learns to ride a bike on her own!

 Woodland trail (North Community) Cute little area

 same as above

 same as above

Making roads. I love those sweet summer evenings- a perfect time to be outside! 

 Avery working on her dive

We are at the pool almost every day! The girls did 2 sessions (4 weeks total) of swim lessons this year, too. All 3 kids love the water. Tristan was dunking himself by the end, saying, "Watch 'dis" every single time. He was able to play in the big pool with the girls as I watched closely. Avery can swim across the deep end and even tries doing laps. Aspen is still a fishy in the water but isn't ready for water deeper than her. We love the pool!!

 Aspen and the posse at the pool

Pecos Mountains (unfortunately this trip was cut short after a long night, but we still managed a hike!)

Same as above. Never did make it to the waterfall we thought we were going towards, but had fun throwing rocks. 

 Same as above. So we went to the river to wade instead on our way out. Aspen was all up in that freezing water!

Avery's first ballet class (a week long summer workshop in White Rock with DALA). She was begging for it! 

Much to Brian's chagrin, we inherited a trampoline!!! It is well loved and frequented by the kids and I'm so happy we have it! (Here it is with the sprinklers underneath)

Las Conchas trail with our neighbors Sandy & Gary, on a Wednesday morning 

same as above 

Outdoor pool at a hotel in ABQ (Aspen forgot her swimsuit so she's borrowing a few items from Tristan- haha!) 

Brian's 32nd birthday with cinnamon rolls :)

 Watching construction at the teen center by Ashley Pond

Harvesting our own apples as a family (using the 24-ft ladder)

...and making our own apple sauce! These girls were quite the team. Avery was a dedicated cranker. Aspen did great stuffing the apples down the hole (Tristan did some of both!)