A new baby!!!

Have I told any of you how awesome my hubby is?! Well he is!! We have been talking about the whole 2nd car thing and he told me he has felt bad that I didn't have a car to take the girls out and do stuff. So we were looking on craigslist and found an awesome deal on this car.

Roughin it in the great outdoors!!!

I know I've been a slacker on the whole posting thing, sorry.

So last Friday we got all of our new camping gear and we were planning on testing out our equipment in the mountains that night. Well we found out that it was suppose to snow early Saturday morning so we decided maybe next weekend. Josh got home Friday afternoon and saw all the gear and he just couldn't resist. So we found a state park that had campgrounds and went there. We got all packed up with all the stuff we thought we'd need. Again this is a test run. It looked like we were going away for a week. It's amazing how much space kids take up. Josh to was astonished as you might imagine, I think guys could probably just taking a sleeping bag and back pack and they would be set to go but us girls, not the case.

This is before we left, Ayva was so excited about her new sleeping bag.

Just setting up camp. It got a little chilly.

Sitting in front of the fire, trying to warm up.

This is what our tent looked like when we, or should I say Josh, got it all set up.

This is our tent the next morning. We went to bed and I couldn't get to sleep, big surprise. 3 hours later Cheyenne woke up for a feeding. I got out of my sleeping bag, shivering so bad that I could hardly get her bottle made. So she ate and we tried to go back to sleep and I finally got to sleep and then the wind started blowing. I mean it was blowing hard, the side of the tent was on top of my head. It was so loud and cold of course I was then up for the rest of the night. The right side of the tent came loose and fell in as you can see.

This is what our little camp site looked like, nice little driveway for the car and a nice little electrical outlet in front of it. We're really roughin' it, aren't we. And the bathrooms, I wish I got a picture of that. They had a laundry room, showers, nice toilets, granite counter tops. It was very nice and clean.

Our Fishing Adventure!!

We finally decided to take advantage of Denver's great outdoors this past weekend and we had a blast.

Some of you may know this but Josh loves fishing. He really enjoys fly fishing but he doesn't have his pole here, so we just got him a regular fishing pole. I don't know much about fishing hence the term "regular fishing pole."

We found a lake Saturday morning at (now this is a mouth full) Bear Creek Lake Park. Something Josh and I found very interesting is that Denver is full of outdoorsy people. When we got to the lake it wasn't too bad but after a while more and more people came, it got so full that there were people sitting right next to us fishing. I guess in the fishing world it's not polite to sit right next to people due to the fact that your lines could get tangled. Needless to say, next time we will find a less populated area to fish. Not only do they fish here but there are bikers, joggers, dog walking (everyone has a dog), boating, etc. I'm not saying anything bad about these things I think it's great and I really admire bikers and how far they can go but when it gets to the point when they think that they are vehicles and can use the road as if they were cars, I'm sorry but that's when I have to draw the line. We could barely get out of the park because there were so many bikers. Sorry in advance for the lengthy post.

This is Ayva making her way to our little camp site.

If you notice the tall grass is kind of in her way and she would gently take the grass and move it around her and say, "Sowee, grass, sowee."

Here we are trying to find a good place to fish. And Cheyenne just hanging out in her carrier.

He decided it wasn't a good spot.

We found a spot and Ayva found her fishing pole. She was imitating her daddy.

Here's Cheyenne, again just hanging out in her carrier.

Ayva found some friends and I gave her some bread to feed them.

In this one the goose snatched the bread right out of her hand and got her little fingers in the process. It scared her and she didn't like them anymore.

So Ayva ran back to me, stuck her hand out and said "no goose! STOP!"

And here is Cheyenne just hanging out. That's pretty much what she did the whole time.

After being in this spot for a few minutes, Josh caught one.

Now that didn't look very good to, having the rope through it's mouth and coming out the gills (I think that's what it's coming out of). So the fishing was just hanging out with us in the water.

Cheyenne finally got out of her chair, wanting to be apart of it all. Ayva eating chips and Cheyenne wanting my water.

And Ayva fishing with her pole all by herself.

Here she is trying to cast it.

Ayva watching daddy fish.

Ayva likes her new camping chair. She noticed the ducks coming her way.

Here's Cheyenne again back in her carrier. It was nice that she liked being in there because it was really sunny out and hardly any clouds.

And here's Ayva carrying her chair back to the car, what a big girl.

What a good looking arm, huh!!! This is what happens when you put sunscreen on your kids and neglect to put it on yourself. Yes it does feel as bad as it looks. The right side of my neck looks just like that. Yes, it is very painful.

And this was the lovely greeting I got in the refrigerator while I was preparing dinner last night. Nice, huh!!! Very funny Josh!

THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD

Tonight we did a little shopping and then had dinner. When we were leaving the restaurant Ayva, of course starting running towards the car. FYI, the parking lot was pretty empty and no traffic so she wasn't in any danger. But what she was actually running to was the moon. Then with her arms stretched out these words came out of her mouth, "Da moon, da moon. Catch it mommy, catch it." It was a funny sight. Another FYI, she loves balls and loves to play with them.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANDREW AND JIMMY!!!

KU won the championship!!!

They did it!! Can you believe it Leisel! They pulled it off. What a game. I was getting disappointed towards the end because I thought they lost it. They were ahead the entire game and then towards the end Memphis was ahead, Kansas just went cold. But that last 3-point shot, WOW, we were cheering. Then in overtime Kansas got their rhythm back and they pulled it off. GO KU!!!

KU-NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!!

New 2 year photos of Ayva

Now as you can see there are 70 photos so its quite a long slideshow. So if you have time, enjoy!

KU did it!!!

They did it, can you believe it?!!! They beat UNC, KU 84 UNC 66.

Of course we were hoping they'd win but thought that UNC had this game because UNC were favored to win so we didn't have too much hope, but they did it! They played such an awesome game, they ran away with it from the very beginning. UNC probably came into the game thinking they have it won already but they were destroyed tonight!

GO K U ! ! ! !