Camp Tahosa 2010 extras

Group earned the "outstanding service" award for gathering so much firewood. The view made up for the lack of fish on our poles.

Camp Tahosa 2010

S experienced his first Boy Scout Camp at the High Adventure Base Tahosa in the mountains about an hour from Boulder. Hiking, knots, service, Samuel the Lamanite patrol, burnt food, campfire, smores, chipmunks, mountain pine beetle, mountain blue bird, firewood, kayaking, canoeing, fishing (no luck), compass, beans, skits, devotional at outside chapel, skills challenge games, and fun. Three stakes join together to put on a complete 11-year old campout that accomplishes a lot of scout requirements.

Aunt R holding M at the Butterfly Pavilion

M enjoyed being held by and playing with Aunt R during her very helpful visit

Top of the Museum of Nature and Science overlooking Denver

Denver has an amazing Science and Nature Museum with a great view of Denver. Fun visit with fam, g-ma, g-pa, and aunt!

N "heart" Spiders

After a lifetime of suffering from intensely severe arachnophobia, N has been cured through jokes from her family and the example of her children. She has not only started to tolerate the presence of spiders in the same building, but she is holding them! What’s next? Petting them? Charlotte’s Web becoming her favorite book? Keeping them as pets? Loving them!

We love to have Grandma and Grandpa come!

We love to have Grandma and Grandpa come. This time they brought Reb also! We had lots of fun with them here, and Reb is still here! The kids love to play with them. This time Maggie loved to play ball with Grandma and Grandpa out on the driveway and giggled each time Grandma had to run and get the ball. Spencer loved to goof around like usual and try to make everyone laugh. Seth loved to play air hockey with Grandpa and Reb also. We celebrated Grandma's birthday while they were here, that is the picture! Glad they could come!

Maggie's curly hair

So, by the day, Maggie's hair gets curlier and curlier, I took a picture this morning to show the front and back. It reminds me of my brother's hair as well as a couple of my nieces hair.

Hiking on Memorial day

We are really enjoying the times that we can go out hiking! We went to Rocky Mtn. National Park. It was soooo beautiful there! Our hike that we went on was to see waterfalls, we didn't want to do a really hard hike, but nothing way to easy. So we set off, we found 3 waterfalls,lots of elk, and chipmunks. The hike wasn't that bad. It was pretty easy for kids,and only round trip about 3.5 miles. Here are some pictures from that fun time.

Seth's birthday

I wanted to put some pictures in of Seth also. He had his #11 birthday recently also! I am so proud of Seth for who he is becoming. He is so fun to play with. In fact, he wants to play with me right this second. I am pushing him off so I can finish this! What a Mr. Yo he is. I love our deep talks we have.

Spencer's Birthday

Spencer had his Birthday and it was Great! He woke up so early ready for the day! Dying to open up the gifts. He is such a smiley kid. He has been since he was born. He has smiled and laughed since he was like 2 and a half months old, and that smile pretty much hasn't left yet. We called him smiley when he was a baby.
He loves to have fun and tease anyone he can.
He loved 1st grade, and has become quite the reader, and a wiz at math. He brightens the room when he comes in! We are so glad he is in our family!! These are some pictures of him that I really like. I want to put in one of him as a baby, but, our scanner seems to not work! So when it does, I will put that on. It is great.