Pics from visit with Amy and Aunt Barb and more family!

I actually took about 100 pictures within a week, which (aside from Christmas) I haven't done for quite some time. But I hadn't seen my cousin Amy and Aunt Barb for about two years and we got to do some touristy things, hence all the pics. I'm only gonna put a handfull up now since it can be time consuming scaling them down before I post them. So, these are some of my favorites from my camera. Amy, you have a few that I can't wait to get my hands on. When I size all the best ones down, I will get to emailing them to you, Aunt Barb and my Mom for sharing. As you can see, we got to go to The Royal Gorge. I hadn't done that since I was very young so it was fun to see how much matched my memory of it. In the first 3 pics are Brendan and Carter on the bridge. They did amazing that day, walked across the bridge all the way to the other side, up the hill to the lookout point and back which to me proves how much energy my boys really have, LOTS!!!!!!! The next three after the boys are before and during the aerial tram ride, us (Amy, boys and I) waiting in line and then one shot looking straight down to the Arkansas. The two after that are from the incline ride the four of us took, Mom and Aunt Barb passed on both of these. I don't blame them too much, I had reservations of my own. Great fear of some tragic accident involving contraptions like these happening when I'm inside. But we had fun with it. Amy has a pic or two of me on her camera with the same expression she has and I do have pics of the boys on these too. Like I said I have a BUNCH of pics. And the last seven pictures are from a big family get together we had with step siblings, cousins, Aunts, etc. The first one is me with my step sister Kristen's new little cutie boy Celestino (Tino), such a cutie! Next is Kristen and Auggie, Tino's mommy and daddy. Then Kristen and I. Next cousin Tish and her son Kaleb. Then Sisters, my Mom Mary, Aunt Betty and Auntie Barb. Then Papo and Carter. And my best group pic of Mom and Vic's grandkids; Brendan, Xavien and Tureis (Gabe and Sara's kids), Antonia and Celestino, (Kristen and Auggie's kids) and Carter. We had such a fun visit, after we dropped Amy off at the airport 9am sat. morning I had to keep telling Carter where she went. He kept saying, 'Where's Amy? Me want Amy!' Very heartbreaking especially because he did not want to accept that she had gone bye-bye to Ohio.



Well, hope you enjoy the pics and maybe in this next week I'll put up a few more. The next few days are going to be too busy, we are going to a Character Fort Collins Seminar all morning tomorrow. Then I have an after birth baby shower for a friend to go to. And Monday morning I have a chair massage gig with a Mother's group that is having a spa day. So needless to say, today I will be enjoying a mostly lazy day around the house! Have a good weekend everyone!

Egg decorating

Hi everyone,

We hope you had a very nice Easter! We just relaxed around the house and the boys got to watch Pinnochio which they got from the Easter Bunny along with some suckers, sixlets and a cadbury caramel egg. They were very happy with that, it doesn't take a lot to make them happy and since they are always seeming to ask for suckers lately it worked out great. They even got to have one after eating pancakes Daddy made. Figured since it was Easter and as many of you know I rarely let the boys have sweets anyway so that was a treat in itself. We did manage to get eggs decorated this year but I did not hide them, they got to have an egg hunt at preschool last Thursday. So here are just a couple pics I took of them coloring eggs. And yes those are stickers from the deco kit on their heads that I actually stuck there.

Recommendation for book lovers!

Hi all,

About 35 minutes ago I finished reading a most wonderful story that a friend recommended to me recently. The book is titled, The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. To tell you very briefly, it's about two women who have come together for the purpose of the older one telling her story to the younger one, with many twists and turns and gradually along the way the younger one learns more about her own story. Now just by that you may think that you already have it figured out but trust me, you do not. I give you this description in a way meant to entice you into reading it to find out the truth. As well as being fresh from reading this wonderfully woven tale, I have the writer's language or some form of it still in my head. Which is why I had to come down to the computer so late, in order to have just a bit of play before going to sleep and possibly dreaming of the story thereby not getting very good sleep anyway. Let me know if any of you read it and what you think, I know I will be chatting with my friend soon to talk about it. When you've read such a good book you well know that the story sticks with you for awhile as I'm sure it will for me in the next few days, at least and it has been added to my list of favorite books for sure. Have a good Monday and take care! =)

Snow? What's That?

I almost forgot what it was like to have snow. It's been way too dry around here and I hope we get to enjoy it for at least a couple days! I'm trying to do that as opposed to wondering how quick it's going to melt, I don't want it to yet. Even though I am excited for summer, I really have missed the snow this winter. I hope those of you in our family down south are getting some too, you need it just as much! Enjoy the pics.

Any ideas please?!

Okay, so I haven't thought of much to blog on. I suppose they don't all have to be big, little notes are good too, right?

Well I'm just messing around right now since I am on hold with the boys insurance to find out exactly what we need to do to cancel once we hopefully find out that they qualify for CHP. We found out Tues that it has been on hold because they were waiting for birth certificates and our drivers licenses, do you think they could have called or written and told us we forgot vital information regarding our application? Of course not! No wonder we haven't heard anything for almost two months. Oh well, it doesn't matter to me as long as they do get covered and soon so we can cut another bill!

Any ideas anyone has are more than welcome, things I can blog without having to have a big reason or plans to do so. Right now the boys are at preschool and I am so thankful we finally have some more snow on the front range of Colorado. I'll post a picture here in a few minutes, it's so beautiful! Anyway, have a blessed day!

Parade

Here are pictures from the St. Patty's Day parade we went to on the 14th. Sorry they're a week late but we hope you enjoy! The boys really enjoyed it and the only thing they were really concerned with was wondering when and who would throw candy at them. These are the entries they enjoyed the most. It was nice to have a fun little thing to do as a family, we all had a good time.

"Thank you.....but

we've decided to hire someone else. "

Officially Dave did not get that job, but he's still been faithfully plugging away. We'll keep you updated and in the meantime I'm going to try to find more to blog about than just the job hunt. I was thinking this morning that I should re-name our blog, Dave's job hunt. While that is a big part of our life right now and important I do want and need to find other things to put on here too. So, just wanted to let you all know. We'll see what else I can come up with. Have a great day, keep positive and count your blessings!