When we decided a couple of years ago to try to have a second child, I knew the it would be a tough process. I dreaded not only how awful I would feel during the pregnancy, but how it would keep me from doing so many things I enjoy with Alex. I [...]
My dad arrived just in time for my birthday. We had a fun but exhausting day! He, Liz and I hiked 7-8 miles at Horsetooth Reservoir. It was a nice trail and we saw 4 deer and few people. None of us had been on that trail before so it was [...]
The kids have been making great strides recently! Zoe has had a huge growing spurt! All of a sudden she has been feeding off me really fast, then crying until she gets some formula! She did that on about 5/6 feeding a day, so were averaging giving her an extra 10-15 oz. [...]
I have always liked Easter egg hunts, egg decorating and the bright happy colors of spring. Now that I have kids, it gives me a reason to do some fun stuff on the holiday!
Last week we invited some of Alex’s friends over for egg decorating. I was hopeful that the kids were old [...]
We were all glad to get back from our trip and get back to some routines. Alex started his swim class and is doing great! Just the instructor and the kids go in the water- not the parents, so this class is a big step up from the one he took a couple of years [...]
One of the trips we look forward to every year is the annual March Phoenix pilgrimage. Who wouldn’t prefer the warm 75 degree days of Phoenix as opposed to staying in Colorado during its snowiest month?? We had extra reason to be excited, as we could celebrate Shannon’s birthday as well as our friend Duane’s [...]
After a frigid February, we decided to visit our family and thaw out a bit. First we drove to Vegas. The kids did great for 13 hours, sleeping much of the way. Unfortunately it was a 14 hour drive! Zoe SCREAMED the last hour including an excruciating last mile through the strip’s terrible traffic.
I had [...]
“Little Miss Zoe” is what Alex likes to call Zoe. It is really cute. He still really loves her. By some miracle he was willing to be photographed and Zoe was in a good mood as well! I hadn’t planned on taking pictures, but they were both being so good I had to give [...]
We had a great snow here a couple of weeks ago. We got about a foot of snow on Friday, so schools were cancelled. Then it was a clear, crisp weekend, so the kids had a wonderful time playing in the snow. Including my two boys (Alex & Darren!)
Darren started out making [...]
When Alex was born, we thought, wow, is this hard! We wished for him to communicate with us and be mobile so he could do things and go places. We wished that he would eat real food. Now that we have a 3 year old we see that other than the waking up during the [...]
