Beau & Avery's Birthday Party

 Beau and Avery has their birthday party last weekend.  I was so excited about their double birthday I decided to go all out and decorate and rent a HUGE water slide.  Everything turned out well and the slide was fun (even in the rain).

 This was a crab themed party,  the kids had matching crab bathing suits~ I absolutely hate I didn't get a picture of them together in the suits before the party and I may just dress them back up and take a picture this weekend.

Homemade Devil Dog Cakes~ YUM!

 Favors, complete with Marti-Gras necklace imported from Louisiana.

 Avery got the cutest little tutu for her birthday and she loved it!  Isn't she cute!

The slide- I think I enjoyed this more as much as the kids....  Check out Beau's expression, priceless- he loved it~!

Sweet Baby Girl- it is hard to believe my baby is almost a year old!  Both of them are growing so quickly I feel like I am going to wake up tomorrow and they will be 8 & 10.

Phone Pictures

 These were taken a while ago and I just discovered them on my phone!

 Avery crawled in here all on her own, after dinner I was loading the washer, I look down and this is what I find!  So cute!!

Daddy's hardhat, so serious.

Colorado Wedding

 I am way behind on my posting (this birthday planning is taking all my time)- we have a lot of pictures from our amazing vacation!  Colorado was beautiful!!  The picture above was from the rehearsal dinner, which was beautiful, BBQ at a log cabin on the side of a mountain!  This is Ben and all of his college buddies~ they had a wonderful time telling stories and reliving old memories.

Beautiful setting

 This is all of us at the wedding~ we were by far the loudest table in the place.... but we really enjoyed ourselves.

 Probably the best picture of the two of us ever~ and for sure the best one of Ben I have ever seen.  Such a natural smile!

We are in Colorado

 Right now Ben and I are sitting listening to the rain fall in the nicest hotel we have ever been in, Devil's Thumb Ranch in Tabernash, Colorado.  We just each just ate a wonderful New York Strip and are stuffed so we thought we would share our day!

Today we started in Estes Park, Co and took a 4 hour horseback ride.  It was long even for me, but we saw some amazing sites!

 We stopeed half way at the top of Beaver Mountian to take a few pictures and streach our legs. ( which will be sore in the morning)

 This was the view from th etop of the mountian.  We are out of focus but the picture is still neat!

These were all the horses at the ranch.  We didn't actually get a picture of us on the horses, the terrian was actually rough up and down the mountian and I didn't want Ben distracted with the camera.

We spided a chipmonk after or ride.  These litte things are so cute and we saw several today, they are prevelant here.

Then we headed into Rocky Mountian National Park, where we found some snow!  I threw this snowball at Ben after the picture, it was pretty funny.

The views in the park were amazing.

 We also saw this marmot climbing the rock ledge and evidently we were as intresting as he was.

Check out how little the roads look in the side of the mountians- these mountians are so big!

 This was taken in the alpine area where the glaicers start, beyond the tree line.  The park ranger there told us some of the flowers in bloom bloom only once every 30 years.  They were pretty but very small and not worth a 30 year wait in my opinion, but we still didn't step on them.

 I have to tell you right before this picture was taken we were walking out onto the snow and Ben had the camera and bag in hand and slipped down on the snow- it was the funniest thing I have every seen. Ben looked like he was running backward on a treadmill!!!  HA HA HA!! After I grabbed the camera I laughed so hard!!  Ben and the camera were fine.

We saw this big ol' Elk on the tundra, by far th ebiggest we saw today.

Overall the Rocky Mountain National Park was amazing and I would definantly recommed it as well as this ranch!! 

Tomorrow we plan to be up with the sun, which rises at like 5am here, as we are going to visit the baby cow here are one ranch as well as walk off some of dinner, visit the ranch coffee shop and head on to Aspen, Co for some after hiking!!

Beau loves his mask!

 Isn't this picture so funny- it looks like he is miserable.... but really Beau loves his mask.  He just can't smile with it squished to his face.  :)

 He loves to wear his mask around the house, in the tub, and swimming. "Mommy I a scuba diver!"  "Dadddy?? you a scuba diver??"  It is so cute.

 We are trying to teach him how to use the snorkel- but that is still a work in progress.  Beau even took some of his swimming lessons in his mask this week.

 Of course Beau wanted Avery to enjoy the mask too- and she seemed to like it- a pool maybe in our future!

Have a wonderful Memorial Day- we will be finishing some chores in the yard, heading to the beach on Sunday in honor of my birthday on Tuesday, and enjoying some pool time on Monday.  I am really looking forward to a productive and relaxing weekend!

Next week I  begin training for my half-marathon scheduled for October!!

Beau's swimming lessons!

Last year beau took his very first swimming lessons with ISR instructor, Julia Duam.  He did a great job last year and has started his refresher lessons.  This is day 5 of his refreshers lessons and apparently it is like riding a bike for him; he is doing great!  Check out our little fish, he has even swam with his mask (thanks Aunt Eilene) and Ms. Julia's flippers!

Avery got her ears peirced!!

Isn't she precious!