Taste of Colorado

Yeah, so I'm just going to jump back in like I haven't been MIA for months on my blog. :) We had a wonderfully busy summer! So busy in fact that I didn't take many pictures, which makes me a little sad. Anyway, one thing we love to do each year at the end of summer is go to the Taste of Colorado.

The corn was Lily's favorite!






Gotta have a turkey leg...
Our self-portrait, the only way I can get in a picture.


Donuts!

Gavin's Birthday!

Gavin's birthday was last month and he had a great day! His teacher let him bring a special toy in for show and tell and we took in cupcakes for the class.

He got to sit at the front and field questions from his classmates about his toy-he loooved it!

Here's his class:

At one point he came up to me and said, make sure you get a picture of my teacher...here ya go Gav:

Later that evening, he had a little party at Amazing Jake's (kinda like a Chuck E Cheese). I hadn't been feeling well, so we needed to keep it easy. He had a blast!

Gavin and Lily waiting for the party to start:


Presents were lots of fun!

Daddy and Lily on the teacups:

Guitar Hero-anyone surprised?

Mini Golf:


After the party, we came home and he opened his presents from us.




What a fun, busy day!!

Denver Aquarium & Hammonds Candies

I finally got my camera back! Yay! So, when I took the kids to the Aquarium yesterday, I went a little overboard with the pictures. :)

Gavin was very excited to bring his friend with us!

Petting a starfish:

Lily loved the overhead tanks!

They saw each other safely through the "flash flood". So cute.

After the Aquarium, we decided to head to Hammonds Candies for a tour. Gavin and I have done this a couple of times, but every time, they've made something different while we were there. Yesterday they were making candy canes, ribbon candy and marshmallow eggs.

Watching the video:

This guy was making the candy canes

Cookie Swap 2008 Pictures

Zoo Day!

We had beautiful weather this week-well, the 2nd part of the week anyway. So, we decided to spend a day at the zoo with our friends.

Estes Park

This past weekend our family went to Estes Park for the holiday. We had so much fun! We went with 3 other families-17 of us! We shopped, ate, played games, did arts & crafts and more. I'm finding it hard to take as many pictures as I normally would have, but with 2 children to keep an eye I don't have a free hand any more. So, I missed some things that I would have liked to take shots of, but I got a few goods ones anyway.(actually Christiann took some of these too)



Some of the kids took an Animal Detective class at the YMCA. They learned about what kinds of tracks and clues different animals leave behind.

They even went outside to look for some.
And saw an elk!

We also went over and rode these cool slides:








I wish I had been able to take more pictures as these don't do justice to the great time we had. I'm hoping we can go again soon-maybe Labor Day?