Happy Memorial Day!

As we all know, Memorial Day is about honoring our troops, and having FUN! As the kids get older, I really do want to go to the parades and the memorials and make it a more significant day, but that just wouldn't fly for us right now. So instead we went to Bellevue Park- one of our favorite places in the summertime! We go several times every summer, and it just gets better and better. Plus, it is a PERFECT place for photo-ops, hence the million I am about to show. What can I say- I FINALLY got some decent shots of Claire, so I have to post them!

 You can kind-of see her smile in this one. That is very hard to catch.

 Very proud of herself for climbing all the way up.

 She's so beautiful!

 I'm so mad at Ben for closing his eyes- otherwise this is such a great picture!!! Maybe we can photo shop sunglasses on him?

UPDATE: My friend Becky put sunglasses on Ben! Woo-hoo!!! This looks SOOOO much better! Thank you Becky!!!

 In this picture you can almost see Claire's boo-boo on her lip. Yesterday while taking a bath, she fell against the tub with her whole face and got a nasty bloody nose and split lip. Poor girl- she was just gushing blood. Luckily, because it was in the tub, the blood stayed there and didn't ruin any clothes or anything. Also luckily, she didn't break her nose- it was bleeding so bad I thought she might have. But, after a little Cat In the Hat, she was back to her usual dare-devil self.

 Claire isn't looking, but at least everybody's eyes are open.

Feeding The Geese

On Tuesday we went to the park and had a wonderful, albeit slightly cold, time. We even got a special surprise: one of Audra's friends brought some bread to feed the geese! I am not sure if we are allowed/supposed to feed the geese, but the girls absolutely LOVED it! Claire was the happiest I have ever seen her- she seriously thought it was the greatest thing ever. Here are the pictures to prove it:

 I had to be right next to Claire the entire time. The dock actually seemed quite dangerous, and I was worried she would fall in. She probably would have thought it was great to swim with the geese, however!

 She wanted the geese to come up and eat the bread out of her hands- thankfully, they never did or she would have had a nice little bite.

 Audra also thought it was wonderful, though thankfully I didn't have to worry nearly as much about  her as I did with Claire.

 I was holding onto Claire the whole time!

 Here are Audra and one of her best friends, Hannah, on the swings.

 Claire playing in the woodchips- she could do that all day!

What Do You Wear in Colorado When...

...it's not too hot and not too cold? Answer: Nobody knows.

This is what we woke up to this morning. You all know we had a HUGE snowstorm last weekend, then by Sunday afternoon is was quite warm, and by Monday it was in the 70's- but felt like it was 102- and stayed that way the whole week until last night. Living in Colorado, you just get used to the unexpected and never put your snow clothes away!

Of course, this moisture adds greater concern to our water problem. I have one contractor coming out this morning to take a look, and I'm going to try and get at least one more out before we decide what to do. We need to act quickly, though, so hopefully these contractors will be able to tell us what direction we need to go!