300 Days of Sunshine

I was listening to potential wedding dance songs the other night.   That is, until I bawled my eyes out and used up all the Kleenex (at least the rest of the box that my dog didn’t eat).   After 3 more glasses of Pinot Noir I was ready to tackle this project for real.   There are so many amazing wedding songs out there… from the classics like Frank Sinatra, The Beatles and Nat King Cole, and 90s flashbacks including Celine Dione and Shania Twain, to modern pop, alternative, and Indie tunes by Bruno Mars, Jack Johnson, Adele, the list goes on.   There are traditional, tender, two-step shuffle tunes, or upbeat Rock the Reception options.   Some couples will choose something romantic and sentimental, while other embrace the new trend of choreographing a complicated performance modeled after Dancing with the Stars . Flash mobs are apparently a popular trend in wedding dances, in which family members of the couple unite to pe...

Spring can be such a tease.   We’ve gone from 30 degrees and windy to 65 and sunny and back again during the past few weeks, making it difficult to decide if I need snowshoes or sunscreen on the hiking trail.   However, I have had the opportunity to enjoy some really beautiful hikes in Santa Fe, Albuquerque and Los Alamos despite the cantankerous climate. My mom was in town for Easter week again this year and we enjoyed some beautiful hikes together.   We went to Bandelier National Monument, a wilderness region near Los Alamos that features thousands of acres of trails and remnants of the pueblo people who once resided there. Mom hiking in Bandelier Climbing ladders into the pueblo dwellings Pueblo home made of volcanic tuff Cave dwellings Petroglyphs carved into the rock My mom and me standing at the top of the Alcove House, once home to 25 ancestral pueblo people My mom and I had our hearts set on some late-season snow sho...