Random Pics on this Easter Sunday

Happy Easter! I hope you all will be spending your day with loved ones. We will be hanging out as a family here enjoying a quite day with nothing to do. I am making homemade cinnamon buns for brunch along with bacon. We will be having a Easter egg hunt followed by some swimming this afternoon. (We will be using the solar heater for a couple of hours to pump warm water into the pool as the temps are quite chilly in the water without it.) We will then be having an Easter feast with rigatoni, homemade sauce, homemade meatballs, homemade french bread, broccoli, and salad. I will be busy for a couple of hours this afternoon in the kitchen, but the effort will be worth it. 

Both my brother and sister-in-law and my mother visited in the month of March. It was really awesome to have them all come down and it meant a lot to me and my family to be able to show them where we live. I think everyone had a good time.

I leave you with some random pics from the last few weeks....

Uncle Beaver with Andy and Elizabeth on top of 'A' mountain.

Soledad Canyon - on a part of the trail I hadn't been on before. 

Soledad Canyon

Taking a break from hiking under this lone tree on the trail. 

An (old?) sign we found on the trail. We really are in the Wild West!

An amazing stone house that is just sitting in the middle of nowhere at the back of the trail. There is no information about the home which leads one to use his/her imagination as to what purpose it could have possibly served. 

Storm coming up the mountain range.

Waterfall at the back of the trail about an hour walk from the trailhead.

Uncle Beaver trying to prove that he can still take down his nephews....

And failing miserably in proving his point....Looks like Andy (and the other two kids) wins!!

After losing a bet to Andy Uncle Beaver is getting ready to be thrown into the icy waters of the pool. 

The deal was though that in order to get Uncle Beaver into the water Andy had to throw him in...

Success!

That water is cold!!!!!

Mountain view from our roof. 

Sunset from the backyard.

Andyman and his Nana at White Sands National Park.

Random horse riders at White Sands.

Organ Mountains

Cow grazing on the side of the road.

Organ Mountains

Out to dinner with Nana at a VERY cool restaurant. 

In Mesilla town square.