Crazy month getting crazier!

So it's been a month! I can't believe it just started only to have it almost about to end. In some ways we're excited it is coming to a close (Paul is ready to be done with school) but in others we need more time (we move into our new apartment May 27 I have so much to pack)!!

To Bee or Not to Bee

The first week of May was very nice weather here. We hadn't put our swamp cooler on yet so we decided to keep the windows open. That first Sunday May 7th we noticed three bees in our bathroom. We thought little of it they must have climbed in through the screen somehow. Then after shooing them out 1 hour later we found 3 more. Then we found the nest.

Now this nest was on the second floor under a roof eave and not very well visible but you could see them swarming! Wish I had gotten pictures but the ones I took never came out very well. After calling a dozen places we finally found someone to take care of it and since then have not seen any bees.

Biopark gardens

Saturday after a month of trying to go we finally got to go to the gardens. I was happy because it gave me time to read my new book World Without End by Ken Follett while Paul got to photograph flowers to his heart content. I got about 75 pages read which is a successful morning if I say so myself. Here is one of my favorites from his photo shoot:

Dinner with Grandmama

Grandmama came to Albuquerque this last week with her senior citizen group. We decided to go out to dinner Friday night to El Pinto and took her on a driving tour of Corrales and Rio Rancho. I hadn't been to some of the locations in Corrales we went to so it was fun to see that side of the city.

Boxes are invading!

May 27 we get the keys to our new apartment. Yay! In preparation we have been slowly trying to pack. This is the scene in the hallway this afternoon!

Scary right? I am hoping from the boxes they can tell the kitchen things are fragile (maybe I should write it Spanish, French, and Chinese lol)! I already broke 3 glasses myself, but the good news is they were misfit glasses anyways. We have hired movers since we don't want to throw out our backs moving a washer and dryer to the second floor apartment! Those will come on Tuesday so we'll have Memorial Day weekend to pack odds and ends.

The good news is we have all of our wedding kitchen gifts that we've never been able to use and our books packed. I also went through my dresser and tossed a ton of clothes I have no intentions of wearing again. Goodwill will be very happy next week when I deliver the sack full of clothes and box of books. Moving is a great way to consolidate what you own and we are hoping to get rid of a lot!