Christmas!

Here we are on Christmas day. Marc's daughter Jackie drove up from New Mexico to spend the week with us. It was great having all the kids here together on Christmas.

We asked everyone to "go easy" on gifts this year but, with three kids, it still seemed like a TON of stuff. Here's Fletch with his new Ice Age pj's from Aunt Lisa. She picked out the most perfect gifts for each of the kids. We could have stopped opening gifts right there and they would have been completely satisfied!


I love this look on Macy's face when she sees that it's a Barbie! (Another home run from Aunt Lisa!)


It was a long day with no naps, but the kids were real troopers. They opened a few gifts, then we sent them off to play while the grown ups opened some too.

And here's the whole family...

Adventures in the Big City!

Each year the hotels in Denver participate in Mile High Holidays where they offer rooms for $52.80 per night. Last year we took advantage of this right before Christmas and took Fletch to see Zoo Lights at the Denver Zoo, then we stayed downtown. He had SO much fun and pleaded to go again this year. We thought it would be a nice tradition to start, so we went for it!

We went downtown early on Saturday afternoon and walked all around. The kids loved being in the city, riding the bus and just taking in all of the huge buildings and masses of people.



We had pizza at Mario's Two Fisted Pizza - one of our faves - then headed over to the zoo to see Zoo Lights. Of course we can't go there without riding the carousel.


We had a late dinner in the hotel. The kids were awesome and loved staying up "really late". Back in our room we had some hot cocoa...


...then settled in for the night. How sweet are they!? This photo reminds me of our "Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed" book.

The next day we went to the Museum of Nature & Science. Macy enjoyed playing the piano in the children's area.


Felix did puzzles, of course, that's his favorite thing to do these days.


We also got to see Sea Monsters in the Imax theater there. Macy was a bit frightened, but the both both loved it. Fletch is "very interesting in dinosaurs" as he tells me. I don't think he knew or realized that there were dinosaurs in the ocean. After the movie Felix was reenacting everything and telling me "AAAAARRRRRR, dinosaur EAT YOU!" So darn cute.

Stay tuned for more photos...I have a lot of catching up to do!

Pumpkin Patch

Last weekend we headed out for our annual trip to the pumpkin patch with friends. Fletcher was Spiderman...



Macy was a Princess... (very lady like here, huh?)


and Felix was sort of a skunk...he wore the costume long enough to take this picture.

Catching up... Is it still September?

Wow, another month with no updates from me. Life has been hectic to say the least! I'll try to catch you up in photos!

We enjoyed some nice weather at the end of September. Here we went on a hike near our house and picked up trash along the way. We live in such a beautiful, quiet area but trash still seems to find its way here. We're teaching the kids to be good little environmentalists!