This was right after our family reunion. We went to an amusement park in Colorado called Santa Claus' North Pole in Cascade. Everything is about Christmas, and the rides were all geared for the kids and very inexpensive. They had a blast and had the whole park almost to ourselves. This pic is us touching the north pole, it is cold all year round.
I just added another thing to distract me, Facebook! It is fun to find friends that I haven't seen or talked to in years, so I guess it's okay. I'm really happy that I could get a video uploaded on there that for some reason couldn't do on my blog. So check out my facebook profile and if you aren't on as a friend yet, sign up to and I'll confirm you as a friend and you can check out Asher getting his groove on. I thought Addi was a dancing queen, but I think Asher is Mr. John Travolta. Any time he hears a rhythm with anything he gets his groove on. I'm trying to prepare Chadd for a boy that wants to be a dancer:) Anyways, he just makes me smile.
Here is our little family (in comparison to my sisters) at the last day of our reunion making our family pyramid at the end of our crazy olympics competition. We won honorable mention:) Check out what Addi is doing on her own volition (sp?), well you know she is like the spitting image of her Dad. If you can't tell or don't know Chadd very well, she is doing the "rock on" sign! Cracks me up.
We went to Colorado for my family reunion and got to see Chadd's brother, sister-in-law and cousins on our way there. They live in Denver, so it was perfect place to stop on the way to Granby, CO for the reunion, with my side of the family. We got to see Kyle and Melissa for a couple of days and the kids had a blast with them. Melissa did the girls hair and made them look cool. Addi got to play guitar hero. They came up to Granby on labor day and played games and ate dinner. We had a great time! Oh, and Chadd whipped Kyle in a thumb war:) It's fun to hang out with family, we are glad they are closer to us now.
It was my birthday this week. I turned 36!! It felt like just another ordinary day. It definitely wasn't my most exciting birthday, but every year can't be as fabulous as last year. I went to Red Robin for lunch with my girlfriend to get my free burger, went visiting teaching, ran on my treadmill, did a little shopping at Ross, taught a piano lesson, helped the kids with homework, did laundry, then went with the family to a pizza place called Dion's and had a salad, then went to Baskin-Robbin for my free ice cream, which I gave to my kids and they loved it. Chadd gave me the greatest gift--John Mayer's new cd, love it!! My favorite song is his cover of "free fallin'". Then put kids to bed and went to sleep. Well, I love being 36 so far and feel like I like myself so much more than when I was in my 20's, it's a good thing. In a few years Chadd will be able to tell people he married a cougar:)
This year I'm in charge of my family reunion. There will be 29 of us and we are going to CO. I've been racking my brain for months for fun things to do together that are memorable. We have some fun things planned, but I sure would love any last minute suggestions, ideas, thoughts...of things to do (it's this labor day weekend). Any fun outdoor games or activites. Anything that you have done and loved. So send them ASAP!! (I know I should've done this sooner!) Thanks in advance.
We bought a punch pass this summer for the pool and used the last time on thursday. We went with our friends/neighbors who happen to be my girls bestest friends. They had a blast and got in as much swimming as possible. It was nice because we had the whole pool pretty much to ourselves.
Addi wanted to have curly hair for school, so we put soft curlers in hair at night so it would actually hold a curl. The next morning she was up at the crack of dawn asking me to take out her curlers to see her new cute hairdo. Well, as we are taking them out I'm trying to hold back the gasps and "oh my goodness" facial expressions. We got them all out and I thought maybe if we just brush it, it will calm down and all will be okay. But as you can see it grew and grew. By then we were cracking up and searching for the camera. Addi then went into the bathroom to see if she could save her hairdo. So she squirted her hair with water and started brushing, not a good idea! Now she had crazy tight curls and stick straight hair everywhere. I tried hard not to laugh but oh man it was so funny. She was good humored about it and we ended up straightening it back. Hope she doesn't ever ask for a perm:)
Addison and London had their first day of school August 18th. It started out with a call, around 6:30am, from the school saying there was a 2 hour delay because of damage done to school buses. So, the kids were bummed because they were so excited to go and kept asking if it was time to go. Addi was all cool when she got there like she didn't need us anymore and London was a little apprehensive at first and then found a friend and was just fine. Then they came home on the bus, which was about 30 minutes late. They had a great first day and Addi really liked her teacher. Both girls have a Mrs. Martinez for their teacher, crazy huh?! London was bummed that she didn't get to play on the big playground since school was shortened and then was totally bored during quiet time where they laid down and listened to music. If you know London, that was probably a chore and a huge feat for her to lay still for any length of time. Little do her teachers know that she doesn't require a nap, it just makes her stay up longer!!! I got a good laugh out of that and she said she was a little scared because she laid underneath the computer station or something, weird. We'll see how long she can be good during this time. I don't remember Addi's kindergarten class doing this. I won't be surprised to hear from her teachers that she has a hard time holding still. Anyways, they better keep up the pace or she is going to go crazy with boredom. London also informed me that she loves taking the bus. This year there is like 10 kindergarten girls on the same bus, fun for the driver:) And Addi is ecstatic that they are doing a ton of science this year and can't wait to get started. Oh, and London informed me this morning that she didn't want to bring lunch, she wanted to buy it at the cafeteria. Man oh man that kid always wants to go out for dinner, shopping, anything but stay home. She is so funny!
It should be a fun year for them and hopefully Asher will survive without his buddies to hang out with.
I need all your help. I need some new music to put on my ipod while I run. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Anything, super upbeat with a good thumping rhythm to keep my motivation up. Thanks!! Oh, and also any suggestions for some great exercise videos.
Let me just say first that I need to write down more of the things London says, because she's a hoot!! Tonight we were serving dinner and London looks at the chicken and says "mmmmm, Chicken with syrup!" like she thought for real it was that. She seemed pretty dang excited and thought her Mom was all that for thinking of it. Anyways, it was just teriyaki chicken. Man we love her! Hope, though, she doesn't keep saying "bemember..." (remember) and teleputter (caterpillar) and rasabell(Roswell) while at school, we thinks it's fun, but man kids can be mean.
I tried to post this the other day, but was having problems. I had to share the video of London climbing the wall as well. She gave it a good couple of tries, but couldn't move up from this one place. I do have to say that the one they put her on was more difficult than the one Addi did and with some vertical challenges herself, well I think she did great!
Asher is always wanting to "help" us clean. Here he is helping Chadd get the job done faster?!! Hope he keeps up the desire to clean and pick-up that would be the bomb. Gotta love him! (check out the music in the background-let me know if you can figure out what it is)
Asher thought the funnest part of being at Hoots was the pylon's that blocked the way to a million cords. He kept dragging them everywhere, oblivious to all the kids running around him and sliding down the huge slides. We kept putting them back and he would get ticked and run back to move them around again. He is ALL boy! It sure is fun to watch him go.
