Saturday Morning Hike

What a beautiful day at Palmer Park. Drop off... yikes!

Me and my boy.
Ethan has a new smile. He fell a few weeks ago and hit his cheek on a table corner. It seems to have changed his smile a bit.

Oh fun -a cave.

I don't remember telling everyone to stick out their tongues.

Ethan and Ava Walking with the Dinosaurs

Our first event at the World Arena here in the Springs. Our friends , the Coursons, won tickets to the this great show. Below, Ethan and Ava in awe of the life size dinosaurs. What a wonderful show. What started out as a father/son/daughter event turned into Eve and I getting to go. We had a blast. Paleontologist trying to steer clear of Brachiosaurus

Buddies...

Brachiosaurus and Jr Brachiosaurus

Eleven Mile frozen lake

A couple weeks ago we decided to take a quick drive up to Eleven Mile Park. It turnedout to be 8 degrees there... burrrr... It was really cool to get to look at and talk to the ice fisherman. The ice was about 4-6 ft thick

Ice Lake with Ethan and Ellie

We met daddy for lunch at his work last week. The kids always love to go for a short hike there during daddy's lunch break. The Lake was frozen and safe to walk on. Although I was a bit nervous.

Visiting the animals with Natalie

We are back in Texas visiting family for the holidays. We went out to Tammy's house today. (R's sister) The kids got to check out the new baby pig and ride a really old horse named "Buttermilk". They had a great time. Unfortunately these pics were taken with a video camera. They definitey lack quality.

November Fun

It's time for Christmas decor. The kids were entertained for days . My girl is growing up so fast.

Grandma is here for a visit. What a great time we are having.

This is a pic of E at the zoo from a few weeks ago.

Uncle Josh came for a visit this month. We had a great time and Josh and the kids really enjoyed the snow.Snowball fight

Gotta love making snow angels.

A few more Birthday pics

My friend Kristen took these and I thought I'd share them with you all. Enjoy more Birthday fun. Above, Ethan always is very uncomfortable when people sing Happy Birthday. Not sure why.

Pin the tail...

Prestents.

Birthday Party for Ethan and Elllie!

We had Ellie and Ethan's birthday party today. It was a hit. We decide to do a Breakfast Pajama party for the kids. All the kids were invited for breakfast and fun to celebrate Ethan and Ellie's day. EThan and ELlie before their guests arrive below. Ethan with his first guest , Emily. All pajammad out...so cute!

With the help my fiend, Kristen I made this Pink Barbie princess cake and Ethan a chocolate cupcake cake.

Ellie - exhausted and watching some of her friends play with her new toys.

Presents= chaos

More pictures too come.

Nice day for a hike at Palmer Park

We decided to pack the kids, Sasha and some food up and take the 10 minute drive over to Palmer Park today. Beautiful November day here in the Springs. Perfect for hiking and watching fly overs by the United Sates Air Force. SO today is a really big USAF football game. They play ARMY. So, we got to watch as the F-15s (?) practiced their fly over. Pretty cool.

Me and my boy.

Daddy and Ellie. We are all so happy to have him home after his travels.

Halloween Fun

Trick or Treat? Very exciting for Ethan and Ellie - their first real trick-or-treat adventure. The kids in action.

Below, our beautiful pink princess and valiant warrior. I'm luckty to get this shot. Ethan wasn't as enthusiatic about his costume the rest of the evening. (He chose it, but I guess it was too long ago)

We started the morning off at a hayride today. So much fun. The kids loved it. Ellie and Ethan got to feed some horses. Ethan is finally through his fear of animals stage.