The Smell of Green Chile

I took the time to upload some pictures from the move until present, so they are late, but here they are!  This is what I looked at for four days straight....pretty much....

sometimes I took a break and looked at these (but only brief glances)

Beautiful Sunset on the way to Abilene 

Windmills on the way to El Paso, I thought they were so cool!  The twins, on the other hand, were not impressed.

 

What it looked like when we were LEAVING Las Cruces to travel up to Phoenix (late but pretty):

This is on my drive from Phoenix to Los Alamos.  If there was ever a need for a 80+ mph speed limit, this would be the place.  USA Autobahn candidate? 

and this part was actually kinda curvy, I could not find my camera for a while so I did not get pictures of the forever long straight part!

I am now in New Mexico.  The twins, the dog and I traveled from Phoenix to Los Alamos last Sunday.  We had already picked out houses that we liked and since Jonathan would be starting his job and moving to a hotel that did not allow dogs; we decided that it would be easiest if I just took everyone for a vacation back home until we closed on a house.  It meant another 9 hours in the car, but we all lived through it.  Even though Austin had a poopy diaper explosion!

Being in LA has been great.  Having grandparents and an auntie around to help, entertain and love on the kids is always amazing.   Here are a few pictures from the park with Auntie Ann:

Holding hands to go down the slide:

Climbing!  and poor Auntie Ann with her hands full, wishing that I was helping and not taking a picture ;)

This morning my wonderful mother volunteered to take care of the twins while I made a trip to Santa Fe.  I have been a little bummed that we missed the green chile roasting in LA as I was hoping to take some home with me, but today I hit the jackpot baby!  Thank you Santa Fe thank you!  Here’s my plentiful bounty:

 

  me and a green chile pepper:

all bagged up and ready for the freezer and then transport back to AZ:

I am so excited, words cannot express.  All the way home I could smell the chile peppers in the trunk.   I would take a huge breath and think “mmmm, smells so good!”  Then take another breath and think “those are going to taste amazing!”  Then another breath and think “this has to got be a small taste of heaven” and so on and so forth the whole hour home.  I think the green chile smell is going to be hanging around mom’s car for a while though, sorry mom! 

Have I mentioned how much I love green chile?  If not:  I LOVE GREEN CHILE!!