Good to be back...

It has been far too long since we have posted anything on our blog. We figured now is as good of time as any! So much has happened in the past year and a little bit. I don't even know where to begin. Let's start with some fun pictures!

I opened my back door to find this cool owl right on the tree next to our deck. I shut the door grabbed the camera and called the kids. We think it is a baby big horned owl. Our neighbor said that they had a nest in the tree in their back yard and saw 3 of the babies before that. It was amazingly cool!

Maggie graduated from preschool in this picture. She sang songs to us in English and Spanish, and loved every minute of it. Charlotte finished up also, but they didn't have a ceremony like Maggie, it was a picnic for the whole school on the last day.

Seth finished up 8th grade and is on to high school this coming year! This was at a 8th grade breakfast that he went to on the last day of school. He is with some of his friends. The tall one is his best friend who happens to live next door to us!

Spencer finished up 4th grade and is having a fun summer. He had a fun birthday and got this great balloon hat when we went out to dinner for his birthday. There was a balloon artist there and he made this special hat for Spencer!

Maggie and Charlotte love to play with the camera with a friend and dress up all the stuffed animals and take pictures with them. I think this is a cute picture of the two and their animals.

Maggie had a dance class this year ballet, tap, a little tumbling, and some jazz also. She loved it. This is her class on the final performance day. They danced to her favorite song, "somewhere over the rainbow"

We went to Breckenridge, and panned for gold! We actually found some also! It was a gold mine that we toured with Derek's parents and then we got to try our luck. We found a small nugget, and a couple small flakes of real gold!

These were all taken on our trip to Breckenridge. The boys went kayaking and the girls went with the grandparents to a tram and down the alpine slide! Seth got this shirt, it is sooo him. Amazingly he got the shirt from the store where the girls are standing in front of. This store is for them. "Two wild sisters"

We went with our primary to tour the Denver Temple the other day, I like this picture of Charlotte, if you can't tell, she avoids the camera while she smiles and says Cheese. I was lucky to get this one with her looking! It was a good day, and fun to walk around the grounds and find out some interesting facts about the temple.