This is my mamasita getting ready to fulfill one of the items on her bucket list.   I warned her the night before she better not embarrass me.  😀

Here she is signing her life away.

Isn’t she pretty?

Yup!  My mama decided that for her 65th birthday she wanted to take a hot air balloon ride.  She told all her friends to look to the sky and she would be the one screaming!  I promptly told her I would toss her out of the basket were she to embarrass me.  Notice in the above picture how she’s giving the pilot pointers.

She was one of two volunteers to help blow the balloon up.

The bigger it got, the more difficult a time Mom had holding up her end.

Up, up and away!

I love the burner!

It was a real treat flying over the Red Rocks and seeing critters from the air.  We saw deer, long horn cattle, rabbits and hawks.

It was a super smooth ride and the landing was perfect.

Jean Piccard would be proud of us!  We also had a great spread of mimosas, strawberries and cake.

Congratulations Mama on checking this off your bucket list — and all by 8am!  (We had to be up and ready by 4:55am.)  So what’s on your bucket list?