Colorado or Bust

Friday, July 17, 2009 by Joy
Towards the end of June, Seth attended 'Enter' Worship Conference at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, and Oliver, Sullivan, and I tagged along so we could all stay and play with my parents for the week! It was a blast - we spent Father's Day at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (amazing - has to be one of the top prettiest locations for a zoo in this country), took a day and went to the Denver Aquarium, and Oliver had all kinds of fun playing with the sand table on Grandpa Jere and Grandma Lou's deck. We all seriously enjoyed the 75 degree, dry weather - coffee on the deck in the mornings and dinner on the deck in the evenings has to be one of my favorite things about Colorado summers. Sullivan took that week to master his crawling skills and began pulling up and walking while holding our hands. It seemed like he really blossomed during that time, which was so fun for my parents to witness! I also got to spend some time with my best friend from high school and her son, which is always so fun.

Seth and I celebrated our 7th Wedding Anniversary by going back to the Broadmoor for a walk around the lake - this was special for us because it is where Seth proposed to me. This time when we went, we walked around the lake and stopped at the same bench where Seth proposed.... we sat down, and to my surprise, Seth turned and got down on his knee (I was like, "Honey, we're already married!") - he said lots of sweet and endearing things and pulled out a necklace for me. It was super romantic! Major props for the hubs. Anyways, it was truly a perfect night, and I was wishing time would stand still for a bit as we were sitting in rocking chairs in front of the lake next to a roaring outdoor fireplace. Quite magical :)

I uploaded the hundred-something pictures we took to my picasa site, and you can view them by clicking here. I've also uploaded a few of them below for your immediate enjoyment :)

Feeding the giraffes was so fun!

Feeding the birds.
Grandpa Jere and Oliver checking out the tiger, which is located just above Oliver's left hand.
Taking a short break from all the walking up and down the hills (the zoo is on the side of a mountain).
The sand table on the deck.
At the Denver Aquarium.
A break from the stroller.
Such big boys :)


Oliver was over playing near a water thingy with some other (rambunctious) kids, and he all of a sudden came over to us, bawling. I guess some other kid had sprayed him with water, which more just shocked/surprised him and totally freaked him out. I love this picture, cause it looks like Seth is all "I'm gonna pound whichever one of you just hurt my kid." Ha! And Sullivan is giving his sweet encouraging gestures, too :)
Oliver and Grandpa Jere mowing the grass - tractors are always a winner.

Seth and I before we headed out on our anniversary date. It was truly a wonderful trip!!!
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Pools and Table Food

Saturday, July 04, 2009 by Joy
Here's our pool we got for this summer. It has been awesome, and the boys are loving the slide! It's super easy to empty and wash out - very functional. I highly recommend it for a small pool.

We have found out that Sullivan loves water and is fearless. Oliver has always been quite cautious in life, but we're pretty sure Sullivan is going to be the type of kid that would run straight into the pool if not supervised. He loves splashing, even when he gets himself in the face :)
We thought we'd try the baby raft... started out pretty good (for a few seconds)...
Then he wanted to climb out. We'll save the raft for deeper waters :)Since Sullivan now has upper and lower teeth, we've started table foods (just a few so far... carrots, smashed kidney beans, bananas). They've been a huge hit! This boy's gonna be an eater.


Loves his water!
Notice that the bottom plate on the rack is missing? Yeeeaaaah. Sullivan finally got to it. Denby is great quality stuff, but falling on tile proved too much for even it. Poor plate.
Here's a look at all 4 of Sully's teeth!
Lovin' him some bananas.

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Pictures say a thousand words...

Thursday, June 18, 2009 by Joy
Okay, so I've gone a little crazy with the pictures the last few days.

It's been fun. The boys are interacting more. Oliver is crazy bossy, and Sullivan's dramatic personality is starting to creep out... our life is never boring, that's for sure!

At any rate, enjoy the pics :)

Excited about standing!



Oliver started to feel like he was losing control of the situation, so he had to step up and boss Sullivan around for a minute.
Alright, that's better :)

We pulled out the activity walker this week for Sullivan to try out. He's slowly getting the hang of it!


Okay this one is really sweet...
Seth was preparing to leave to lead worship for a camp, and Oliver was asking lots of questions about it. Seth was explaining to him a few intricacies of what it meant for him to lead these kids in worship, and after a minute, Oliver left the table where we were sitting, and we thought nothing of it. A few minutes later, I didn't hear anything, so I thought I'd go check to see what Oliver was up to. This is what I see...He's sitting on his bed reading his bible. I did not put two and two together right away - I just thought it was really cute that he was sitting by himself on his bed, intently flipping through his bible. When I came back and told Seth what he was doing, Seth realized that Oliver ran in there to do that right after Seth was explaining to him about Jesus and leading worship, etc. It's so cool to watch their brains really get this stuff!
And while Seth was gone, we had a little issue with our air conditioning...meaning it went out. Which is all fine and dandy unless you live in a part of the country that is 90 degrees with about 95% humidity. Awesome. Needless to say, Sullivan did not need clothes on for his nap :)Never fear, we were able to quickly (and inexpensively, thank goodness) get it fixed after one night at a friend's house. This week we are really appreciating having air conditioning!
Oh, and this one was fun. Yeah. So I'm getting ready for the day this morning - doing my make-up, and Sullivan wakes up from his nap. I leave him to play in his crib for a bit, but after a few minutes he starts to get bored. So I tell Oliver to go in and say hi to Sully. I hear over the monitor Oliver go in and chat with him for a minute. Then I hear no words, but some banging around. After a few seconds, I figure I better go in and see what's going on. Well, this is what was going on.
At first I was just mad, but then I realized that I really needed to get a picture, cause these are the kinds of things you hear about and just laugh. Does this look like the face of an apologetic child to you? Yeah, me neither.


Yesterday we got the chance to head over to my brother and sister-in-law's house for the boy cousins to play, and we had a great time! The 3 older boys played with the water table, and after awhile I thought I'd let Sullivan join in on the fun. Sometimes I'm a little slow to remember that he's really old enough to do this stuff!
He was loving the water.
I asked Oliver to go over by Sullivan for a picture, and this is all I got. Oh well, I'll take it.
4 boys under the age of 3...now there's trouble!
Oliver L-O-V-E-S his Uncle James. I mean loves. It's quite cute, actually :)
And I wish I didn't have to censor this pic, cause it is downright adorable!! But you can get the idea :) What's better to a 3-year-old than getting to pee naked in the yard?!?
Seth was so thoughtful while he was gone - sent me flowers and Oliver a balloon! We were so surprised to come home one day to this delivery on our front porch. What an incredible Daddy/Husband we have :)
These roses are absolutely gorgeous. And they smell as good as they look! I've been carrying them around with me from room to room so I can enjoy them wherever I'm spending time :) Thank you so much, Babe!
Yesterday I went in to check on Sullivan (confession: I can't get enough of my baby that sometimes I sneak in his room while he's sleeping just to look at him), and this is what I found:
He's just recently become more mobile in his bed. For the longest time (way after he could roll and sit up) he'd still lay in mainly the same spot I laid him in. Now he's all over the place. I love all the crazy positions they get themselves in...and that they actually can sleep in them!
And here's my big boy in his new jammies. I was realizing the other day (probably during our air conditioning outage) that all of Oliver's jammies are long sleeves and pants, and the only 2 sets that are short sleeves are size 2T and waaaaaaay to small. So, I figured we'd grab him a summer set while we were at the grocery store today. He loves them and is very proud :)
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