Nestle Tollhouse ~ (if you've seen that episode of Friends you can say this with the proper French accent)

This morning, Isabel came to me and asked if we could make cookies toghether? Well, who could say no to that? So, despite the 90 degree temperatures, we fired up the oven and baked cookies together!

He's Walking!

A few weeks ago, we were at my parents's house for dinner and Gabe took 6 or 7 steps across the kitchen floor. We got so excited and have been trying to get him to repeat those steps ever since, but he has been unwilling to cooperate. He has been trying to walk and has been so close several times. In fact I was sure that I'd come back from New Mexico and he'd be walking. Well, that was not the case, but yesterday, around lunch time, he started taking a couple of steps from one thing to another and by bed time he was walking half way across a room!! I was able to catch a couple of his steps on camera.

Fun times in Carlsbad

Last week, Gabe and I hitched a ride with my parents and travelled to Carlsbad, NM for my grandmother's funeral. We were saddened to be there under the circumstances, but it was so nice to be surrounded by all of our family. While we missed our Ita greatly, we were still able to enjoy each other and have a few laughs while we were together. Perhaps our greatest adventure was our trip to the drive in movie. This was no ordinary movie night. We thought it would be fun to get everyone together and go see a movie at the drive in theater. After all, how many places still have a drive in movie theater? As we were formulating our plan, we realized that there were a heck of a lot of mexicans there and at $10 a car we could end up spending a fortune trying to get everyone in. That's when my cousin, Doly, remembered that my aunt and uncle have an RV! It seemed perfect. We could easily get 15 people in there and it has a bathroom and a microwave!! So, we went out back to check it out and make sure it would start and get us all there in one piece (I think the RV might actually be older than me). Well, they managed to get the RV running and we cleaned it all out so that it was ready for a trip to the movies!!! Our next challenge lay in getting it out of the driveway. My aunt and uncle have a lot of property and the RV was parked in the back. It had been raining for two days before that so the ground was soft and muddy and there were even a few mud puddles in our way. So we covered the puddles with cardboard and my cousin, Eric, gunned it all the way to the front of the driveway!! I tried to get pictures of this, but due to the high speed at which he was driving and the fact that I was laughing so hard I was crying, I missed the Kodak moment. We thought that if we were going to do this, we needed to do it right, so we grabbed some pizzas and some microwave popcorn and loaded them up, and we stuffed the bathroom full of lawn chairs. Then we piled 15 mexicans into the RV and tuned the radio to the Mexican station and we were off. Now when I say we tuned the radio to the Mexican station, I mean we found it and then we turned it up as loud as we could and drove through town with the windows open. The only thing missing was laundry flapping in the wind behind us. Anyway, so we arrived at the drive in and then set up camp in front of the RV. The movie was great, the food was great, and the company was even better!!! This was definitely a memory for the Palma family book of adventures!!!

Goodbye, Ita

In memory of our beloved Grandmother

Feliciana Palma

1917-2008

Druh & Candice's Wedding

Druh and Candice are finally married after 7 years of dating!!!! It's hard to believe that our little Druh Bug is all grown up and married. Everything and everyone was beautiful! Our festivities started on Friday afternoon with the rehearsal and the rehearsal dinner. We were so excited to see several friends and family members whom we have not seen in many many years. We had a gorgeous, Mexican themed rehearsal dinner in Doly and Ross's backyard, and we spent the evening eating and catching up before going home to rest up for the big day!


I put together a couple of slide shows of our weekend. Hope you enjoy.

The Rehearsal and Rehearsal Dinner

The Wedding