There isn't really any reason I titled this post in Spanish. I guess I just really wanted to grease the proverbial wheels on the section of my brain where my two years of High School Spanish are stored. Seems to me I haven't forgotten a thing :) Time for another trip to the Mexican beach!

But seriously the Burros de Las Vegas were encountered on a recent hiking trip we took through Red Rock Canyon which is just outside of Las Vegas. These are probably the hippest burros in the southwest, considering they have a pretty sweet view of the Las Vegas Strip just over that ridge in the picture. Other Burros are probably jealous of these guys. Anyway, wow, I have been talking about Burros de Las Vegas for far too long. I came here to update the blog. Duh...

Sorry for the short delay in updates. We've been keeping busy with the young one and the like. Over the last few weeks we have been keeping it pretty low-key. We got to try out our cool new Cooper backpack carrier contraption on the hike through Red Rock. He seemed to really like it - especially when he realizes he has his own "reigns" which I call the hair that sticks out of my head. But hey, if it gives Cooper a laugh then I guess it's worth a couple of infant-sized handfuls of hair missing from my head.

So, we posted some pictures from the hike as well as a few other random shots of Cooper (he seems to be a running theme nowadays) for your perusal.

Well, not quite sure if he knows what he's saying, but he certainly has that "follow the leader" thing down. Or maybe it's more of a "monkey see, monkey do" sort of thing.

Cooper and Brody will be great friends in no time. Just don't tell Brody, he's not too sure about that just yet. We had a wonderful Christmas with the family. Cooper got tons of toys. We will need to put an addition on the house just to make room for all of them! Ryan and I got a Christmas present to the Phoenix Botanical Gardens where there was a Chihuly exhibit, he's one of our favorite artists. We did that on Friday morning and headed back home on Saturday.

We spent New Years' here in Las Vegas with Ryan's family! His grandma and aunt and uncle were here with our cousins, Ashlyn and Jim (J3). We had a great time with them and hope they come back to visit soon. We are really enjoying watching Ash and J3 grow up. They are great kids.

Cooper is waving at everything now and we are doing a new sign with him, 'all done'. He likes to take steps when we hold his hands but he's not nearly as excited about crawling.

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and Happy New Year!

December went way too fast! Cooper celebrated his first St. Nick's Day, his first Christmas, and his first New Year's! We spent a weekend down in Tucson with Ryan's family. His grandmother had a holiday open house so we wanted to be in town for that. We had a great time with the family and can't wait to get down there again!