Los Alamos Adventure

James, Katie and I are living in Los Alamos, New Mexico for most of this summer while James does his internship at Los Alamos National Labs. We've already been here for seven weeks and have five more to go. James mostly just works while I do errands or stay at home and play with our baby. We do a lot more of the fun stuff on the weekends, which have been a lot of fun so far. We've visited the nearby Bandelier National Monument twice (see my blog) to see the ancient Pueblo ruins and to hike the Upper Frijoles Falls trail. We went and saw the Tinsley Ellis blues rock band at Ashley Pond as part of the Summer Concert in the Park Series, and we hope we'll go to another one sometime while we're still here (they have them every Friday evening). We hiked (and got lost on) a trail that goes behind our house and around the nearby golf course. There are lots of hiking trails around here; people really enjoy the outdoors in this city. We have nice neighbors; our landlord lives on the North side of us with his wife (they're an older retired couple that have their grandkids over to play a lot) and a young couple lives on the south side of our apartment (they have a baby girl that is 8 months old). We've done some things with our ward, which is very friendly. They had an activity that was a 5K run/walk, breakfast and clothing swap (all at the same time). We didn't make it early enough to do the run, but we did the other two things and got Katie a few cute outfits. We've also went to a barbeque at a family in our ward's house for Memorial day. It's really nice how you can find friends in many areas of the world just by going to Church. James and I also gave a talk on this last Sunday and we're singing in the choir. Katie is growing a lot and is almost 3 months old. She laughs, coos, sucks on her fist and loves to look at everything. She's rolled over from her tummy to her back, but she only did it one day and hasn't tried since (she's a funny girl). We're having fun here and hope to do lots more fun stuff while we're still here.

P.S. I hope you enjoy the new blog layout!