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 We found a wonderful house in the Northeast part of Albuquerque, in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains. We're all settled now, and starting to forget we ever left Albuquerque. It'll be a rambling post, just want to hit the highlights of our first couple of months in our new home.

 

Camille loves having a yard to play in.

 

Her new velo, a present for giving up diapers!

 

This was taken from the patio.

Another view from our patio, early snow on the mountain.

 We enjoy the occasional ice cream.

 We've scouted out all the good playgrounds in town.

 Camille started going to preschool two days a week, for three hours a day. She loves it! These are the kids in her school (it's tiny! she has 3 kids in her class.) In this picture you can tell she likes to hang with the bigger kids. The school is about a 15 minute walk from the house, in a church.

 Getting ready for school.

We hit the state fair, where the burritos serve a family of three with leftovers.

 Then my parents came in town to visit while Remi spent a week in France for work.  Camille and I took them to Santa Fe.

 I love this sculpture, it's called "Yard Dog"

 A late afternoon on the arroyo green space behind our house.

 Our friends Nate and Carrie came to visit, we took them to the balloon fiesta.

Camille was impressed.

Halloween Prep.

 Here we are at the zoo, Albuquerque has a first rate collection, including lots of giant cats. That's my favorite part, and Camille's too since the baby snow leopards have been on display.

This mountain lion is humongous!

 Our great next door neighbors invited us to celebrate their daughter's second birthday. There was a bouncy castle, Camille looooved it.

 Then more recently we went on a hike in the Pecos National forest. It was breathtakingly beautiful with the aspens turning and snow already on the mountaintops.

 We'll leave you with the Trader Joe's boogie 

 And one last bit of good news, Remi became an American citizen last week! It's a wonderful accomplishment for him, he's happy to expand his passport collection, and I'm happy we won't have to worry about renewing his greencard!

Citizen of the world.

The move

Following are some pictures of our move from New York to Albuquerque. Camille and I spent a couple of weeks in Asheville in between, while Rémi took care of the move. 

On the airplane.

My grandmother met us at the Atlanta airport with my Dad, and drove to Asheville with us.

In Asheville, where we stayed with my parents and spent a lot of time with my older sister and her family. 

My little sister came to visit too during our trip. Here she and Camille are playing in a tent my parents set up in their playroom.

The two cousins at the Nature Center.

Mimi and Pops' house in Black Mountain (just outside of Asheville) has a great big porch.

Then we flew to meet Rémi in Albuquerque.

We stayed at a corporate apartment for the first three weeks, the pool was awesome.

My parents came to visit for a week during that time, to help out. 

We did some playgrounding,

 

Hiking

 And other miscellaneous suburban stuff.

And at the beginning of September, baby Maggie was born!

Pictures of the new house coming next, and Camille's new preschool!