Ethan fishing

Aunt Tammy will be so proud. Ethan turned out to be quite the fisher-boy on this trip. He caught 4 different fish. I think they were "brookies" some kind of small trout.

He loved it!

Silly fishy face.

My kind of afternoon.

Around the house

What in the world is this? My children helping out?

cheese

Claire has been practicing walking with her big bro and big sis.

Ellie being silly.

July 4th week

Kaden, Ellie, Halle , Ethan and Kristin are pictured here riding the carousel at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.

In early July I stared to see some of the fruits of my labor.

Claire's first ride. I turned my head one moment and the next thing I know... Aunt Kristin has Claire and Halle riding the little Train at the Zoo. I think Claire liked it.

But what Claire loved- WATERMELON!!! This girl was coo coo for the good 'ol 4th of July favorite.

And boy can she make a mess!

Ellie helped me catch up on some strawberry picking.

And what better way to enjoy our harvest than to make some warm strawberry crisp over vanilla ice cream.

We are Back!

Greetings fans! Sorry that its been so long. I will try to post a few pics from our past summer weeks over the next few days. Enjoy. The photo above was taken today at Palmer Park. Finally, all 5 of us together.

Above, is a photo from Richards backpacking trip here in Colorado.

A little hike at the Academy.

Some recent stuff

My precious patooty.

One of our Friday Family Fun nights.

Claire and daddy hanging out in the carpool lane at school. What a view.

My little man running.

Below, some huge snow flakes. The biggest we've ever seen here. BUt you can't really tell in the photo. They were like Half Dollar size.

I love the look of pure joy on Ethan's face in this photo.

I know....Its been a while

To all of you who follow us, I am sorry its been a while. My photo journaling has been seriously lacking. Here are a few recent pics to bring you all up to speed. So that is a family picture taken of us late on Easter Sunday. Most of us are out of our Easter Sunday dress attire. But Ellie is still in her pretty dress.

Claire recently started eating baby food. And man has she taken off with it. She LOVES to eat now.

She loves her daddy...

Yahoo fun... whaooo..

A sunny day here in the Rocky Mountains. Not sure when this was. Sometime last week. It certainly did not look like this today. Today we had, snow, hail , gropple, lightning and thunder.

Another milestone

A day at Garden of the Gods

Below, Ellie poses in front of "Kissing Camels".

Some pictures from our Spring Photo shoot

Spring Portraits

Blue Bell comes to Colorado Springs

Ok, SO I was on my way to Ethan's school this morning when low and behold I found a Blue Bell Ice cream truck in front of me. Yahooooo! They have arrived! For those of you who do not have pleasure of knowing Blue Bell. It is somewhat of a cultural Icon to Texans. And we are happy to have that little bit of home here in our new home of Colorado. So I dropped Ethan off and took Ellie ( in jammies) and Claire right on over to the Walmart that I had seen the truck pull out of. And there I found the heavens shining down on this case full of Blue Bell. Hallelujah!

We made our selection of the new Colorado inspired Rocky Mountain Road.

Off we go home to try out our new treat.