School is over! Summer has begun

The boys were soooo excited to have summer start. For the past month Spencer has been asking when it would end. He was ready to play.
Yesterday Seth had his 5th grade awards ceremony at school. The "graduation" from elementary to junior high. During the slide show, all the kids broke out in song with a song that was played. I had never heard it before! I guess I am out of the loop now on the hip songs! I am too much in the 80's songs and kid songs. Seth claimed he had heard it lots before and knew all the words! He sang it too me. He did! I wonder where he heard it! I can't believe that he is going to junior high in like 10 weeks. I like to see him grow, but a part of me really wishes he would stay small like Maggie so I could keep cuddling him, actually I wish they all could...I think you all know what I mean!

our new house and the hot air balloons!

Here is a picture of our new house!
The hot air balloons were the best event so far in our very own neighboorhood! We got up at 6am twice to watch these take off! The first day they put a couple of balloons up to show the public, but the weather wasn't that good, so they didn't fly them. The next day (Sunday morning)they put up the balloons, it was so neat. We found out that the balloons are made of silk, and they are very sensitive and delicate. They start out in price of $40,000 and go up in price for the bigger or more personalized ones. Pretty expensive hobby! The hot flame that shoots up was loud and we could feel the heat fairly well standing 10-20 feet away. It took a lot to get the balloons up in the air too. They rolled them out, tied it to the basket, hooked a big blowing fan to inflate it then started to pull ropes on the balloon while the flame was blowing in also. It was really cool. I will have to post the video that Seth took of one of the balloons going up.
Spencer was sad that he couldn't go up in them. He wanted to so bad.
The Balloons were the start of the town fair. We went and hung out and met Jedi knights, and storm troopers, a sand guy, and someone else...I don't remember what he was called. That made Spencer's day.
Maggie is walking almost everywhere now, when she wants to go fast, she crawls, but when she doesn't mind how long it takes and wants the cheers she gets from walking she walks. She loves dogs, and loves to bark like a dog too. The boys taught her how to say "duh" so she says that a lot. That makes them laugh a lot.
Well, lots more unpaking to do, I better go!

Kid Battle Royal

Here are all the kids piling on Uncle R! I'm sure glad Uncle R built up his muscles before we came... he will be using them more often since there are more kids in Colorado!

Flatirons

We went hiking with the kids twice and once with the Denver relatives! Here are the boys on the Flatirons trail above Boulder. Can't wait until a few more weeks and the snow stops falling and starts melting at the higher elevations!

Colorado

We moved for a new job. Here's the view from D's office. On a clear day, many more mountain peaks are in veiw. The top level conference rooms in the office are all named after mountain peaks. Great job with a great company www.whitewave.com

We are finally online again!

Yeah!
After a month and a half, we finally have moved into our house in Erie Colorado, and got Internet again! I can't believe how addicted I am to the Internet, it has been hard not to have it!
I will post some pictures later, I realized that I haven't taken any of our new house yet, but I do have to say, the kids are doing well in school, and Spencer just found out yesterday that another 1st grader lives next door! So, he played with him for a while, that was fun.
Maggie has taken lots of steps now, she is into everything. Her hair is as curly as ever. I should have named her Shirley.
Seth just turned 11 and was very excited to have this past birthday. He gets to go on all the boy scout camp outs now, with Derek.
The weather here is crazy! It was like 80 on Monday, and yesterday we woke up to 1-2 inches of snow!
I will get more done soon, just wanted to let you know that we miss all of our friends back in Kansas and beyond.