Adam's Birthday

Who needs words for this one other than Awe?

We went up to Cloudcroft in the morning. We ate breakfast and went for a short hike with Gwen. It was a paved pathway, but extremely invigorating and pleasant. I think Gwen likes the outdoors. She's mesmerized with the trees moving in the breeze now. She's not afraid to be high on Adam's shoulders. From what she's shown us so far, it seems as if she won't be very timid regarding that kind of thing.


There's a humming bird hidden in this picture. You might have to enlarge the picture to find it. Just double click on the picture. The bird is in the center.


Gwen has an Elmer Fudd air about her here.


This is the view of Alamogordo and White Sands National Monument below. Cloudcroft is the town we were in. It's 16 miles east of Alamogordo and around 10 degrees cooler in temperature. I loved that! I think we should come up more often.


Sitting on the fence by the flower garden. I had fun dressing Gwen today. She hasn't had the chance to wear many pants yet, since it's so hot now.

I love this one. I'm holding her hands to keep her seated straight, but she doesn't need much assistance anymore. She's growing up so quickly.




She had enough at this point and was ready to take a nap. I think she looks cute when she's crying too though, so here you go. I was going to put her on the railing for the photo, but it didn't get that far.

So, after the mountain excursion we came back to Alamogordo and played with Gwen and such and opened his gifts. We then went on the golf course on base (all three of us) and golfed 9 holes. After all, what else would Adam rather be doing on his b-day. Gwen and I stayed in the cart much of the time to shield her from the sun, but we also were Adam's caddies. Sorry there aren't any pictures.

Then I made a new dish for dinner. Adam loves sushi, but the closest I dared was tangerine peel beef. It had a citrus flare with some soy sauce, sugar, garlic, red chiles, dry sherry, onion and orange flavor in the sauce. Then the beef the recipe called for was flank steak which was wonderful. The noodles were purchased from an oriental store in town.

The ice cream cake was from Baskin Robbins. We had never had "cake" from there before. I personally think Dairy Queen's is better. Adam liked it though, and that's what mattered. The joke we have running is that he's going to stay 23 years old....at heart, so I put "Happy 24th" on the cake. It got a good laugh.