Why we love Colorado

Here are some pics of why we love Colorado...we'll let them speak for themselves

Our Little Rocker

Teancum love's his uncles and learning. When they let him keep their old toy guitar as a birthday present he was thrilled. Check out his first performance featuring His favorite.....the ABC song

T's big day...also late

Teancum's Birthday was Also Ninja Turtle themed. It was nice for him to have one last shindig with his friends before we had to move. I didn't get a picture of the Leonardo piñata, or individual pizzas the kids made but here are some other pics of the party. Check out the radioactive ooze cupcakes

I wasn't sure about more dinosaurs...But he plays with these ones all the time. they are his Land before time dinos



Cowboy stuff to remember texas by..and from his favorite girl too

Yes he got a Ninja Turtle...Now his favorites are Leonardo and Michaelangelo.

Halloween...a little late

Alright, I know I'm probably the last to do this, but even two months after the fact I think these pics are cute...even though they don't catch my Boys in all their Ninja glory. this year Teancum wanted to be a Ninja Turtle for Halloween (and a have a Ninja Turtle birthday). Since I had some blue fabric around the house I figured it woudl be easy to stitch up a mask and some armbands to go on some green sweats and viola T was his favorite Ninja Turtle. Of coarse he wanted the rest of us to be them too so I made small purple and large red and orange bands a masks and we went to our halloween party as the complete set, too bad I didn't have anyone take our pic. Then on Halloween Night we went with some friends and Let me tell you they were the cutest set of kids on the block. Thanks Nicole for getting some pics for me.

Donatello with Diego and Baby Jaguar

The Whole Crew

Leonardo taking on a Ninja and Indiana Jones

Caught redhanded

I was busy preparing dinner today and turned to find my sweet little Jacob with his hand caught in the cookie jar...so to speak. He recently discovered how yummy marshmellows are yesterday when he found the container in our cupboard and I gave him one. Here is the play by play of todays caper

I'm caught...

Look Mommy....

....MMMMMMmmm....

The little children

Our first Sunday here happened to be the primary program. It was fun to here the kids sing...and I'm sorry to say I did compare the program to the one we had in Waco and it didn't even compare to how wonderful Waco's kids sang, and how well the program was put together. It made me miss my children, and got me to thinking about some of the kids who expressed sadness at my leaving.

I even got teary eyed thinking about my last sunday in our old ward. The primary spotlighted me and I had the kids sing Child's Prayer...a song that is near and dear to my heart since my family used to practice singing it in parts during family night. I hope the kids know that I was bearing my testimony to them in the song. I couldn't tell them that directly though because I was so choked up by the end I couldn't even sing.

To top it off the Rachel White presented me with a card that was signed by all the primary kids and teachers, the nursury leaders, and even the former primary kids that graduated while I was the singing time Choristor. I just went to my seat bawling, there was no way I was going to be able to say anything at the time...but if any of the parents are reading this, please let your children know how much I love them, that I know God loves them and they are choice spirits, I know Heavenly Father hears their prayers and will answer them. They are children of God.

Botched baking day

My inlaws are coming to visit us tomorrow. Remembering how my mother-in-law always has a bag of homemade cookies somewhere I decided to bake a bunch to make them feel more at home. I cheated though and used a tub of premade cookiedough since I have a lot of unpacking left to do still. The results...5 dozen burt cookies. The first couple batches burned...I don't know why since the oven wasn't even officially preheated to the right temp and I followed the time on the directions. The third was a success and I plum forgot about the 4th, 5th and 6th batches. What a waste. We've already eaten the dozen that turned out. I guess tomorrow I'll have to start from scratch before the get here.

Welcome to Colorfull Colorado

We've finally settled in to our home in colorado and the boys are loving having a yard to play in and a school around the corner with three playgrounds. The library is in walking distance and the first day here there was a Buck in our backyard. He came to visit us again the next day but we havn't seen him since then. Jacob is taking the move fairly well, it has been a little harder on Teancum who had to drop out of preschool and leave his many friends behind. He kept asking to go home until the movers brought our stuff and he had his bed back, now he just asks to go play with Jackson and Ava. Ryan is hard at work and has been given a lot of responsibility on this job (he is in charge of the entire interior of the Hospital), what a great learning opportunity. I'm loving having a home and really enjoyed decorating it and making it ours. Last Saturday we raked leaves...funny how yard work can get you all excited when you haven't had to do it in years.
Sorry about the lack of pictures. I was going to take a bunch and chronicle our move, unfortunately I had the movers pack up the charger and then when I went to take pictures of the "big" truck the camera's battery died. The charger is still lost in all the boxes left to unpack....I'm procrastinating now that the upstairs is settled and looking homey. When I finally dig it out and charge the camera I'll post the pictures of our new and blessed abode. Bye for now.