Another Quick Trip and where does the time go?

I see that I have not posted since August!    Wow.   So much is going on with my Youngest Son starting junior high and other things, painting my room, cleaning carpets, I've been so busy.    I still read my favorite blogs but just don't seem to have the time to sit and write.  So today I am taking the time.   

 First of this is my pretty do Lincoln doing his favorite thing, taking a walk on the beach.  He LOVES to walk in the sand he gets so excited.  I wish I could let him loose but it is not allowed.  Sometimes in the winter when it's cold and no one is on the beach I do let him go for a few minutes.  It is still so hot and humid here in SoCal it is hard to beleive it's October!  I'm still wear sundresses and shorts because it's so hot!   I was in Arizona and New Mexico again  last week too and while it is pretty warm in Arizona too it is a dry heat.  I can handle that much better.  Humidity is so awful, all sweaty all the time!

 This is me and my nephew Chris.  He is my twin sister's son.   I am very close to her children.  I   took him with me to New Mexico in August on my last trip.    I wound up leaving him there.  He was having a terrible time in California, he couldn't find a job, couldn't figure out what he wanted to do and worst of all was hanging around with the wrong people and not getting along with his mom.  When I just went back recently after not seeing him for a month he looks so much better!   I am so proud of him, he found a good job and has been working hard at it.   He likes where he is.   He is content.   He is a little lonely, he has only visited our reservation  a couple of times so it is all pretty new to him.   But he knew he needed to make a change and I am so proud of him for doing it.   He is getting to know the family and I know he will be okay.  While we were there this time, his mom and I helped him find a cute little apartment too.    

 He is a cook at a restaurant in the hotel/casino that our tribe owns.   He had never cooked before but they are teaching him and he is learning fast!  

These guys were running around like stray dogs!  Too bad we didn't have any apples : )

 My niece ran in the Miss Mescalero pageant and she won.  She will get to go to different parades and pow wows, fairs and other events and represent our tribe.  ( She is actually my third cousin but in the Apache way, because her grandmother is my first cousin and we are considered sisters, that makes her kids and their kids my nieces and nephews.   Definitely gets a little confusing : |    

                         She is a beautiful girl inside and out and she will do an excellent job!

 We took a little time to go out to the cemetery and clean up some family graves a little bit, pull some weeds.  It is such a beautiful place, not like your typical cemetery but out in the mountains and spread out this way and that.

Well it is October even though I can't tell it by the weather and so I need to get my Halloween decorations out of the attic and get them up!!   Maybe today : )   We'll see.