We drove to Santa Fe, New Mexico to spend Thanksgiving with Brady's family. They rented a house there for fun. It was a beautiful house in a nice spot. Our children loved climbing the hill across the street and playing with family the most. We took many walks, visited the square, went sight-seeing, ate a delicious Thanksgiving dinner, played in the snow and drove to Bandelier National Park to see some caves. This was a major highlight for Hailey. She loves exploring.

I took some photos. Brady took a lot of photos and I am sure Kelsey and Michael took many as well. I am going to spare everyone the mass picture posts this go around. Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your friends and family.

On Thanksgiving morning, Kelsey speared up some drawing with Hailey. Everyone joined in on the action at some point - even Penquino sitting on the table. She is the newest $3 stuffed animal compliments of Ross. 

Placemat Hailey made at school for Thanksgiving

Bandelier National Park was a lot of walking and climbing but it was worth it. It was a beautiful park. I stayed behind on the last cave climb because it was too risky to take Hunter. Brady told me Hailey was awesome and climbed up all the stairs. It was a one way up thing about 4 flights of stairs if I remember correctly. Scary but she did it!

I liked looking at this guy!

Hailey also collected a bunch of rocks while we were in Santa Fe. One night, she set up a pretend store by the fireplace. Grammy, Michael, Kelsey and Brady were her customers. They gave her real cash for her rocks. When it was over she went to go return their money and was shocked that they didn't want it back!

When we went to tour the caves, she brought her purse along. She refused to leave it in the car and said she needed it just in case. Smokey did take her into a store in the square and let her browse a dollar type store with her money prior to her "rock store". I think she needed to borrow some cash as I was sure she only had about 2 or 3 dollars in it - counting change. Thanks Smokey and everyone for playing with Hailey. She loved every minute of it.

* Side note: A few days ago, Hailey went to her room to go get Hunter a wallet he could borrow and pulled out a $20 bill. I knew it wasn't mine. At some point Brady must have given her the money to play with and forgot all about it being in there!

Hailey did use some of her earned money to buy Christmas presents for her family at the Christmas store at school. She was tickled to get to use it. I am so excited to see what she picked out for everyone!