The Reynolds: NM Vacation Part 1

We recently returned from our 1-1/2 week vacation to NM and have all kinds of pictures to share so I'm going to break it up into 2 posts. Here's the first half.

Waiting for the shuttle at the airport. It was hot and humid and even hotter and humider inside this waiting area. I tried to warn them.

Out of the way. Reynolds clan coming through! Don't you just love Cade's little backpack on wheels?

Just about the time our flight was scheduled to leave, they announced there was a mechanical problem with the plane but a mechanic who was a "miracle worker" was going to fix it quickly. Then a line started forming at the desk and word leaked out that the flight would be delayed by 3 hours. So I got in line and quickly learned it would actually be 5 hours. After standing in line for about 2 hours, I got us on another flight that took us to Chicago and then to Albuquerque. That flight was scheduled to leave at the same time as our delayed flight. All other options, including our delayed flight, included an overnight stay somewhere. So after hanging around the airport ALL day we finally left for The Windy City. When we arrived, we found we had a zero minute layover for our next flight. We hustled and Cade ran through the airport and were the last ones on the plane but not before we were told "something happened to our tickets and we had to be reseated." Don't you just love how it wasn't anyone's fault but instead something out of everyone's control happened? So Kevin sat alone and the remaining 4 of us were in the very back of the plane between the two big, loud, dumb, vibrating, humming engines for 3+ hours with no snack or dinner or anything for us to eat to quench the hunger pains that were forming because none of us had eaten since our early lunch when we thought we were flying out several hours earlier. Fortunately, our sob story moved the stewardess enough to give us a couple of meal packs (that you can purchase for a mere $4) for the kids to eat. Dana and I were on our own. By the time we landed in Albuquerque with splitting headaches from those obnoxious engines I was starting to wonder just how filling a Sky Mall magazine would be. The paper has some nutritional value, doesn't it? Ron picked us up at the airport (after trying to cause a minor disturbance with the guards) and got us to Inlow just before midnight. Long day but we got there safely and our luggage arrived with us.

The next 3-1/2 days were spent visiting with everyone from Dana's side of the family and playing and having a really good time.

Jeremy, Cameron and Zack-Attack in the tree house.

Kevin on the climbing wall.

Cameron stretching to touch the top handhold ball holder without a ball thing.

And even Cade made the climb.

Cameron and Zack were attached at the hip.

While big brother Kevin was connected at both hips to Ryan and Tyler. These 3 spent a lot of their time in Tyler's Man Cave playing video games. Nice hair, Ryan!

We all went for a nice walk and rode mountain bikes and even played dodge ball several times. That dang Kevin won most of the time. The twerp is good!

After leaving Inlow we headed down to Las Cruces (thanks to Ronney and Karen for letting us use their Excursion!!!) to spend some time visiting my family and several of our friends. But first we spent a day painting our dumb bathroom to make our house look better. Did you know blue is taboo? That's what a realtor told us - about 50 times in 10 minutes. So now it's brown.

Here we are at (my sister) Stacey's wedding on July 4th. I've said it before. Usually Cameron is the one making the faces but lately Kevin seems to be filling in for him. This shot cracks me up.