our new house and the hot air balloons!

Here is a picture of our new house!
The hot air balloons were the best event so far in our very own neighboorhood! We got up at 6am twice to watch these take off! The first day they put a couple of balloons up to show the public, but the weather wasn't that good, so they didn't fly them. The next day (Sunday morning)they put up the balloons, it was so neat. We found out that the balloons are made of silk, and they are very sensitive and delicate. They start out in price of $40,000 and go up in price for the bigger or more personalized ones. Pretty expensive hobby! The hot flame that shoots up was loud and we could feel the heat fairly well standing 10-20 feet away. It took a lot to get the balloons up in the air too. They rolled them out, tied it to the basket, hooked a big blowing fan to inflate it then started to pull ropes on the balloon while the flame was blowing in also. It was really cool. I will have to post the video that Seth took of one of the balloons going up.
Spencer was sad that he couldn't go up in them. He wanted to so bad.
The Balloons were the start of the town fair. We went and hung out and met Jedi knights, and storm troopers, a sand guy, and someone else...I don't remember what he was called. That made Spencer's day.
Maggie is walking almost everywhere now, when she wants to go fast, she crawls, but when she doesn't mind how long it takes and wants the cheers she gets from walking she walks. She loves dogs, and loves to bark like a dog too. The boys taught her how to say "duh" so she says that a lot. That makes them laugh a lot.
Well, lots more unpaking to do, I better go!