White Sands!!

Over the Fourth of July Weekend, we packed up and headed to Las Cruces New Mexico. My Grandmother and Aunt/Uncle live there out on a pecan farm outside of town. This was nostalgic for me because this is what we used to do almost every fourth of July when I was a kid. In New Mexico you can light fireworks in your own backyard, and in Arizona you can't, so this became quite the tradition. And to add to the nostalgia, by parents and sister w/family came as well.

So, being in Las Cruces, you have to visit White Sands!! White Sands is 287 square miles of pure white sand dunes in the desert of New Mexico and it's about 45 minutes outside of Las Cruces. It's a fun place to slide down the dunes and bury each other!!

We also had my cousin's wife Cassandra and her kids meet us out there. It was fun to see her and the kids, I am good friends with her sister Vanessa who lives in Crystal Lake, IL. Kind of a small world.

We played at White Sands for a few hours until it got TOO HOT! The air temperature wasn't bad, it was that reflection off the sand. We all got a little bit sunburned!