Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Family Fun in Colorado!

We had a fun family reunion in Colorado Springs this year. All of my siblings and my parents, met and stayed in a beautiful house, with an amazing view, and we just had a great couple of days.

On our way out of town we stopped to have our ultrasound and..............This is how we became the Brady Bunch! haha
We are having a girl in November!  Tied game....we're super excited!



Before we left Denver we toured a candy factory....FUN!







These pics may not be in the correct order of when we did them.......but one of the days we went to Cave of the Winds.......the grandkids all in  one picture!

On Father's Day we visited Garden of the Gods.......breathtaking!

 What an amazing dad my children have!!!  And I have an amazing dad too. It was fun to spend a father's day with him!






We visited some cliff dwellings. The kids really liked them. You could climb through them and look around.








We visited the coolest zoo ever!! The kids are still talking about being able to pet the giraffes!




And we visited an old gold mining town. Some long horns were being ridden down the middle of the road. The kids went up to pet them several times and Ashton asked if he could sit on one of them. The guy told him if he followed them about a mile up the road to where they had a corral, then he would let Ashton. And Ashton we so persistent---he followed those longhorns through the crowds and up the road, and he got to sit on one!! Determined little boy.






 Some of my pictures didn't upload....grrr....maybe I'll post some more later. That was our amazing trip in a nutshell though! We had so much fun and I'm so grateful to come from a wonderful family. It was great to see everyone, and make some terrific memories.

Friday, June 7, 2013

Ella is Eleven!


 Happy Eleventh Birthday to our beautiful, talented, wonderful, ELLA!!!!! I can't believe my little girl is 11. She is such a joy, and adds an amazing spirit to our home. We love her so much. We had a lot of fun celebrating her birthday!

Ella always chooses the best cakes! She chose a mint chocolate chip ice cream cake. HEAVENLY!!

For her birthday present from us she requested a DATE NIGHT with mom and dad, the night before her birthday. FUN!!! We got to go out to dinner to one of her favorite restaurants, Butterburs, and then we went SHOPPING. We had such a fun time.


 Happy Birthday Ella!
 She had two of her best friends over, Allyson and Claire......

 She got some Legos, and she let all the kids help put them together. They had a blast!



And I had to put in these 2 pictures of Livia and Preston as they were waiting for her cake. They had been waiting all day to eat it, and were sooooo excited! haha


Then the next day we got to watch Ella at gymnastics.......she is soooo flexible~I love watching her do gymnastics.
We had a wonderful time celebrating ELLA!!!!