Tuesday, January 31, 2017

January

We spent our January ice skating, cross country skiing, and hiking.  

Skating at Evergreen Lake.  This is the only time we went to the lake. It has gotten super crowded, and with the warm weather it closed a lot this year.  We were lucky to find a little neighborhood pond through some friends so we could keep skating.




Family hike at Red Rocks.  I love having both Kenny and Andrew (and Nate and Maddie) here now.
A little Saturday march for women






Cross country skiing at Keystone Nordic Center.  We dropped Logan off for his free Epic Pass downhill lesson and the rest of us spent the day skiing and sledding at the Nordic Center.  It was much less crowded and we got to park right next to the trail... much more our speed.




Friday hikes with Zimmy

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Logan is 6!

At 6, Logan is sometimes sweet and cuddly and loves to be tickled, alternating with an affinity for dart guns, sword fights, and general boy-ness.  He is an excellent whistler and long ago surpassed my capabilities.  He makes an impressive array of battle sounds and vehicle noises when playing.  He likes coming up with new lego creations. He's writing a Minecraft book, and has watched all the Star Wars movies a million times over with Mark. His best bud is his cousin Axel. He says Tammy's house is his favorite place in the world. He loves Gwen, a 7 year old that he's grown up with at Tammy's. He was so excited when she was coming to his birthday party.  Beforehand he was mulling over whether he should tell her that he had a crush on her-- he decided I should tell her.  In the end he told her he was going to marry her some day over birthday cake.  Six has been a magic age for learning to do a lot of new things, like ice skating, skiing, swimming, reading, and writing.  Funny signs have started showing up around the house, mainly barring Amelie from various places or warning Mom not to throw away his stuff. (Who, me? Never. Except its my favorite thing to do.) He still loves making maps and doing math. He's learning division and fractions and begged for a math "homework" book (he doesn't have real homework). "Math is awesome! I'm so good at math!" He's just recently started getting into climbing.  On our trip to France, he professed his love for climbing and often said he wanted to sit next to or walk with Daddy because they needed to talk about climbing.  I wonder how long that will last.  The kid is toying with Mark's heart.  

6!


Mark organized a Minecraft scavenger hunt for Logan's birthday.  Now everytime Axel comes over they try to recreate it.



Attack the creeper!

Cake #2

Cake #3.  You can never have enough birthday cakes.

Saturday, December 31, 2016

December


We went to the Parade of Lights. Ama and Olivia had a great time dancing to the music.  Logan moped most of the time because we didn't buy him a glowy pinwheel spinny thing.

Hugs for reindeers while Christmas tree shopping

Home Depot is the place to go!

Tree decorating... that's Logan holding his baby's 1st Christmas ornament, which broke shortly after

The kids decorated most of the tree this year.  About half the ornaments were clustered in that corner right at Ama height

My birthday

Birthday outing to an Escape Room. We were sure we'd be part of the 26% that make it out... we were not.

Making the eggplant for Christmas Eve

Ama visits Santa.  Logan didn't make it this year because he was sick.  We were all sick most of Christmas break.
Ama, Aunt Maddie, Uncle Andrew, and LoLo


Family Christmas picture

Christmas baby...
Just like me :)

Maddie, Andrew, and baby Zimmy

Visiting with Grandma & Grandpa A

Hike at Mt. Falcon

And Red Rocks

Hike at Red Rocks
Princess in boots, fighting pirates

Thursday, December 15, 2016

Welcome Zimmy

Look what I got for my birthday! Little Zimmy arrived the morning of Thursday Dec. 15th. My mom, Ama, and I rushed to the hospital to meet him. He's perfect.
My 3rd baby


Ama was super excited to meet her new little cousin. School could wait.

New family of 3

Zimmy

Grandma and Zimmy

Sister love

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

November

Girl's climbing trip to Shelf... we were so proud of ourselves for setting all our own routes.  Girl Power!
Family hiking at Three Sisters
Hiking with the Clarks, our hiking/biking buddies of many years

Thanksgiving 

Thanksgiving
Logan's soccer team with coach Mike & Quin



Reading with Uncle Andrew