Dress Rehearsal

My cute little Isabelle had her dress rehearsal today for her big recital.  She is such a cute little dancer.  I love watching her, and she loves, loves, loves her dance teacher, Miss Polly.  We have our tickets for the recital already, and we are almost ready for the big day.  I just need to buy Isabelle new tights; I've made holes in both pair of tights with my ring.  I'm going to keep the new ones in their bag until that night, and take my ring off when we get ready.  I'm so proud of her.

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Garden Update 2.0

The 2.0 is just for my husband!!!!  Look at my garden grow.  The potatoes are up, the cucumbers are poking through, even my lettuce, spinach are showing their little heads, and the scallions are little hairs growing right up into the air.  Go little plants, GROW!!!

I have replanted my summer squash, and informed my sister Beverly that I'll be over to her house for summer squash early this year.

Denver Zoo

Today we went on a family outing to the Denver Zoo.  Bobby actually took the holiday!!!  He usually works on holidays, but today we all went to the Zoo.  We took Kirsten with us, and had a great time.  We only saw 1/3 of the zoo, so we will be going back.  We loved the lions, the birds, and the bears.  They were thrilled with the train and carousel.  We didn't get to see the apes, though we looked and looked and looked.  We did catch a turtle show, and got to follow some geese and their goslings.  It was a fun time had by all.

She wouldn't ride the ones that actually moved up and down.

They fought over who sat on the ape.

He thought this was the best map ever!

My cute little crew all ready to explore.

Bobby spent alot of time doing this move.

She really wanted to see the lions and the kangaroos.

"Look Kirsten, here we are."

Love you Kirsten 

He was so good.  Ran around and having a great time.  He found the water spickets and turned them on, he found holes in the fences to try to climb through.  Go little Jimmy Joe.

Update

I was hoping to keep more updated than this, but I guess I'll begin again.  I've had to wait awhile for pictures because I lost my camera, only to find it in the pocket of my coat.  HUMMMMMMM.....

We have been having a great time.  We signed Isabelle up for summer reading club and healthy kids club.  We have taken advantage of our neighborhood pool opening, and Isabelle had been learning to ride a bike with no training wheels.  i can't believe she's growing up so fast.  We haven't succeeded in potty training James.  We've been having great days outside in the beautiful weather.  Bobby is working hard, and learning a new programming language in the next few weeks... He's soooo cool like that.  He rides his bike 3 times a week to work (26 mile round trip) and is going to start doing it 4 days a week.  He's sooooooooo sweet, smart, and let's not forget EXTREAMLY good looking; I can't believe I'm so lucky to have him as my husband.

Today we went on a bike ride at the park.  Well, Isabelle and Bobby went on a bike ride.  I pushed James around for awhile, and then he played at the park while I tried to keep him safe and out of the water (this park has a water place for the summer).  It was too windy and chilly to play in the water today, and James has the art of fit throwing down!!!  We had several about not playing in the water.

I couldn't find Isabelle and Daddy, so James and I went home after about 1 hour and started dinner.  I got a phone call to come pick up Isabelle, she had an accident on her bike.  She has a skinned up knee (pretty good one too), a skinned chin, a fat lip, and a few bruises on her forhead.  She really took a tumble over her handlebars and off the bike.  It scared her and she was hurt, but she got back on and road all the way back through the bike paths to the parking lot.  Bobby said that just the thought of seeing her mommy and getting a hug was all she needed to get up and going again.  I love that girl.  I'm going to miss the days that just the thought of me giving her a hug and snuggling with her makes everything all better. Maybe those days never really go away.  I still want Mom to snuggle me and  hold me when I have a bad time at life.  I'm grateful for a mom who I always know loves me, and her hugs and love makes my world better.  Thanks Mom.

Garden Story

I have always wanted a garden.  So, this year my husband said, "anything for you dear." and we did it.  I measures and schemed, and came up with an idea that would fit with our house.  Don't worry, I went and got it approved by the community office.  I then went to Home Depot and talked to the great people working there.  I'm telling you that the smell of lumber is nostalgic.  I love that place.  Anyway, I got all the stuff:  lumber (cut into 4 ft., 3 ft, and even 12 ft, lengths), peat moss, compost, vermicilite, screws, and some other stuff.  It took two HUGE loads in Scott's (thanks Scott) truck.  I was a little nervous before we tide it down, but I made it, and Bobby unloaded my project.

Then the real work began.  With my CONSTANT supervision we (and by we I mostly me BOBBY) drilled, screwed, measured, cut, measured again, mixed, watered, mixed some more, and filled in all the wonderful boxed.  Our neighbor came over and helped out; Juan is the best.  They worked into the night, and Juan brought over his spotlight so we wouldn't have to stop.  We finally had to give up for the night and leave it until the morning, although I think Juan could have worked all night.

The  next day we finished the project and I was finally ready to begin my planting.  I know have 4 3x4 boxes, 4 4x4 boxes, and a 3x12 box to plant.  That's a total of 146 beautiful squares!!!  I have planted cucumbers, tomatoes, corn, potatoes, beans, carrots,butternut squash, zuchinni, yellow summer squash (that Jimmy Joe pulled up the other day and I have to start over), spinach, lettuce, salad mix lettuce, scallions, peas, green and red peppers, watermellon, pumpkin, and some flowers.  I'm having soooo much fun.  Thank you for my wonderful Mother's Day Present that keeps on giving!!!!

Mother's Day

I had a great Mother's Day.  I got my own new, shiny garden.  My husband and our neighbor have been working on it yesterday and today.  It's beautiful.  I went and got everything we needed; thanks Scott for the truck.  And I directed, and sometimes even helped put it all together.  But, MY WONDERFUL HUSBAND did most of the work.  I'll post pictures as soon as I can, but it is a beautiful sight.

Mother Son Date

I have been doing Mother daughter dates with Isabelle for a few years now, and tonight I began the tradition with James:  mother son dates!!  We had a great time.  We went to Home Depot and ran up and down the isles, looking at all the cool toys.  :)  Jimmy Joe tried out all the riding lawn mowers, and even found the hidden key to one of them.  No worries, I caught it in time.  Jimmy Joe chose a flashlight as his fun item, and I have to admit it's pretty cool.  It's a glow stick (blue), a flash light, and a whistle all in one. I think that I need to have one too.  We went to Red Robin and ate a nice sandwich and fries.  Really James just liked the soda pop, but we had fun anyway.  Right now he's arguing with his father about needing to sleep with mommy.  He is hiding in the covers, playing like his flash light/ glowstick/ whistle is a train, intermittently yelling at his daddy that he isn't going to his room, he's sleeping with mommy.   I love him!!!

Joslyn's Day at the Aquarium

Today was a great day.  We took Joslyn to the Denver Aquarium.  I especially enjoyed it because on the drive there and back Joslyn talked to me about the Harry Potter books.  She's been reading them, and is on book 5, "The Order of the Phoenix".  We had a special time talking about the parts we loved the most.

The Aquarium was exciting.  We always have a great time.  They loved the sharks, the otters, the spitting "archer" fish, and the flash flood area.  The liked the fish and birds in the beach area, and had a great time petting and feeding the rays.  Well, Isabelle was the only one who actually fed the rays, but Joslyn and James had a great time petting them

.  Joslyn tried her hand at climbing the tree.  She did a great job.  They all got "face" paintings on their arms.  We had a fun picnic out on the balcony, and it was a perfect day to watch all the other people as they toured the little rock garden below us.  We then played a little more, and went to the 4D theater.  They had a new show with Yogi Bear trying to get a picnic basket, and it was pretty jerky, but the kids LOVED it.

After the show we played in the rock garden park for awhile and ate more of our picnic.  The kids tried to do cart wheels, and spinning and racing, and dancing.  We had a great time.  Thanks for all the fun.