Hiya, sorry that I haven't written in a while...  I am enjoying my new haircut,  and we are going to see our friends from Mexico in July...  Oh, and I am 11 now!  Carmen and I have been taking photos with our new cameras and are going to sell art cards!  We gave some to mom on her birthday, Oma and Opa for their anniversary and uncle Steve for his birthday.  Here are some of my most recent photos...  On our computers we can adjust the levels of the photos...  The only one that is here like that is the rose one, the others are original 

My new hair

 My New Hair!!!

Love you all,

Narah

School, sewing, spring, SLRs.  School is going well, a little bit every day.  Sewing is very fun too!!! I am making a long-sleeve peasant blouse.  I go on Tuesday for an hour. Spring, bare foot, tee-shirts; I am wishing that I could time travel back to Las Glorias...  Friends, family, pool and fun!  I got a new camera is an SLR Nikon D60.  Carmen and I are planning to sell our photos on cards.  It is bedtime in 5 mins...  Sooo, TTYL (Talk To You Later).

Love you all,

Narah      

Home again

Hi all, here we are back at home missing Mexico, playing in the snow.  It is nice to see friends and family again.  At first it was strange and I didn't like it, I am still saying, well we can go again now!  We are also eating lots of Mexican foods, and have a sense of adventure.  Hopefully we will get to know the Mexican family that has joined my choir.  And learn some Spanish.  I will try to keep this blog going...

Viva Mexico,

Love you all,

Narah

I must report the good times and the hard times.  We have all been under the weather, we are hoping to be better soon.  Good news is that I saw Las Vegas!  (at about 100 km an hour) I was saying to Papa "tell me if you see any cool buildings" Levi says "What, are you going to drift off or something?"  We did see the "CN tower"-- or the "Space needle" we couldn't tell.  Megan and family, I saw your hotel in a map...  Did you stay at the Excalibur as well as the Luxor?  

After a night or two we got to death valley...  pretty neat place, desert, salt flats, rock hills.  Levi and I tried to catch geckos, did a junior ranger program, and we lived a few nights nights without electricity.  

Supper and a movie is almost ready.

Love you all,

Narah    

Carnaval photos

Scenes form the Guymas Carnival----and our little family Carnival.

Love you all,

Narah

Hi, we are in Arizona, at a KOA in Kingman.  We aren't going to the "Grand Canyon" this trip, we thought we might as well see Las Vegas- if one has to in one's life.  Not to mention the tourists in Grand Canyon area.  Death Valley is this trip.  

Mom wrote this about leaving Mexico and driving 900 kms- in one day.

A long days drive

from dawn on the 

rocky hills around Hotel

Playa de Cortez - cobbled, quiet,

colonial charming; carrying

treasures away from the 

beaches-like conquistadores-

seahorses, pufferfish,

shells, skulls, and broken tiles.

A long day's drive past

fruitstands & pack horses,

taco shacks & military checkpoints.

To the borderland of

cactus & barbed wire...

Then through - all at once

through-

The sights, smells, sounds

and mysteries of Mexico

don't fade but disappear

into memory

And all the tangible is 

understandable suddenly

conversations overhearable

signs each readable

instantly.

And we wouldn't stay there

but drove further North -

A kind of grief hiding

in with the tiredness and 

stress and the growing dark.

Love you all,

Narah