2012 Balloon Fiesta!

Well the annual Albuquerque Hot air Balloon Fiesta has come and gone again!!  This was our second time going since moving to New Mexico and I've gotta say that it really is such a neat experience.  I'm gonna be sad come next October when we wont get to go, as by then we should be stationed wherever the Navy wants us to be and there are sadly no Navy bases here in Albuquerque :) 

We attended the "mass ascension" this last Saturday morning, early morning.  We left our warm beds around 5:00 drove over to Sharee and Arthur's to caravan with them and then waited patiently through traffic (which wasn't as bad as it was last year). We arrived at the park roughly around 6:30. 

Yes, it was still dark when the very first balloons took off and to keep warm and busy while we waited for more balloons to get set up and take off we drank hot chocolate and ate home made breakfast burritos, yum! 

For being dragged out of bed at such an early hour, Caleb was super good and really enjoyed himself.  His sister Lily was a different story.  That girl was constantly fluctuating between being happy, sad or angry about something, now I must admit that she was better behaved then last year but I had hoped for a just happy attitude and definitely didn't get that.

 Well I hope you all enjoy the pictures and if you ever get the chance to come to this event in the future, my advice is to take it cause the real thing is soooo much cooler then what my pictures portray.

Enjoying Hot chocolate and Breakfast Burritos

Special Shaped Balloons....

Spider Pig!

Pirate

Scare Crow

Poor Eric was doing this a lot since I can't hold either of our kids for very long.   

A Witch and Basket ball in hoop

Shark and Darth Vadar

The three Bees 

Our only Family shot...grumpy Lily and dead to the world Caleb :)