Summer Outings

Every year I take Emily to the Aquarium and the Denver Zoo. She loves these outings. She especially enjoyed this summer because Ty was older and got to walk around with her. She was quite the tour guide. She explained every exhibit to him. It was too cute.


This is too cute. There was this Macaw that this kids saw. Emily was "cawing" at this bird and so Ty decided he would do the same thing. I don't know what is up with the placement of his hands. He was just mimicking Emily.

Emily was, as usual happy, to be at one of her favorite places. It doesn't seem to matter that she is been to the Denver Aquarium several times. She's always happy to check out the fish and see Nemo.

Next stop was the zoo. Mirinda, Jordan and Madison joined us for this outing. It was a blast. Poor Jordan is now scarred for life. He was checking out some animals and went to get closer to the fence so that he could get a better view. Unfortunately for him, he did not notice the peacock sitting on the fence. The peacock made a slight movement while Jordan was standing right next to him. I've never seen anybody move so fast. The look on his face was priceless. This scared him so bad that he avoided the birds for the rest of the afternoon. While poor Jordan was frightened half to death the rest of it got a good laugh at his expense. Sorry Jordan.

I'm sure Ty doesn't remember his first 2 trips to the zoo. I'm sure he'll remember this one for a little while as he is still talking about the tiger he growled at. This is not the only animal he growled at. Pretty much every animal he saw he growled at.

If you've ever been to the zoo, you know that there is a small train to ride on. Well, Ty loves choo choos. So of course he had to ride it not once but twice.

I'm sure here Jordan is giving Emily etiquette lessons about trying to ride on a train.

WELCOME BACK

Ok, so it's summertime. We've been crazy busy and that's why I haven't posted in a while. So read on and catch up to see what we've been up to.

4th of July

We hosted what I believe will turn out to be our Annual 4th of July Block Party. We had families from the 2 neighboring blocks and friends over for a friendly get-together. All of the kids had a great time playing together while the adults enjoyed some adult beverages. Thanks to some of our friends, we had fireworks, fireworks, and more fireworks.

Rick manned the grill while the others stood by salivating. We had tons of food, beverage and good times.

Later in the evening, when the kids were passed out, there was a friendly game of poker in our garage. These guys were the last men standing. I must say we throw a great party.

Summer Planning

Well here we are. Summer break is half over and we still of tons to do. We are in the midst of planning our vacation to San Diego later is summer, the kids are taking swim lessons and Emily has her first dance recital in August.

Ty is talking up a storm. You can almost understand everything he says. He gets more independent with every passing day. He keeps us on our toes.

Emily is growing like a weed. It's hard to believe that my little peanut will be in 1st grade in just a month and a half. She'll go to school all day. I'm sure she'll do just fine. She loves her little bro and she has the big sister thing down pretty good.