Tuesday, March 11, 2014

White Sands National Monument

The kids and I joined up with some friends and visited the 
White Sands National Monument in New Mexico.  
What a blast!  
It was a perfect mix of snow sledding and a beach... and without the cold and the wet!

We definitely plan to go again!

We still need to clean out our van though... 
and take care of our ouchy sunburns...oops!



Jonas is pretty fast at getting up the hill!





The kids loved sliding and burying themselves...






Reuben borrowed my hat to try to minimize his sunburn!





The cold sand kept us from overheating in the middle of the day.  
It was cold enough that Evelyn begged for hot chocolate!  
Well, she is my daughter... there never needs to be an excuse for hot chocolate!





Reuben and Troy plotting their burial (hahaha)





Leslie on top of "our" hill






Gideon enjoying the best sand park EVER!






Jonas and his friends creeping us all out with their zombie effects






Micah comforting me as he lovingly put more sand around my head... 
I finally allowed them to bury me with their promise that they would all 
willingly climb in the van when it was time to go.  
a...a...A...AHEM, children!  



3 comments:

Mrs. Bush's Third Grade Class said...

UMMM, I totally want to go there! It looks awesome!!

Bob and Raylene said...

I bet you all had sand in places that you didn't really want sand. Looks like a blast.

Unknown said...

That looks like a really fun place!