Weekend Fun

First of all thanks for all the birthday wishes. I wasn't really planning much for my birthday but the day turned out to be so much fun. Danton unexpectedly had the day off which was nice. My parents offered to watch Lincoln while Averie was at school so Danton and I had a date afternoon!!! We went to one of my favorite places to eat Lucille's (yum)! Then we took off to Denver because Danton had to do a quick appt. and then he showed me around where he is doing his Paramedic school. After that we enjoyed my free birthday Starbucks coffee and then enjoyed my new favorite dessert...Red Mango, also free! Love my birthday. Then we went to my parents for dinner. It was a fun day. Did I mention I love my birthday! Until next year everyone!!!

On Friday Danton was called to do a 24 hour ambulance shift for Sunday-Monday so we made some adjustments to our weekend. It has been some time coming but our church moved into their new building this past weekend. Everyday last week at school Averie told her class about her new church she was so excited. So, because Danton had to work on Sunday we went to church on Saturday night. On Sunday Averie asked to back again!! I have to say I agree with her I absolutely love our church. I look forward to going everyweek as well. On Sunday I decided to take the kids out for some fun. We started with going to the Denver Children's Museum. We haven't gone to the Museum since Lincoln was born because to be honest I was to scared about how it would go. They both played hard for 2 hours and enjoyed everyroom. Then to reward ourselves for such a successful outing we went to Red Mango(yes, again...if you haven't tried Red Mango and there is one in your area please try it it is so good)! Then we ran a couple of actual errands and then it was on our way home. Then it was baths to clean up after a hard day of play and then Averie and I watched Night at the Museum. What a fun day. I love my little kiddos. Here is are some pictures of our fun adventure!!!

Lincoln loved the dog, of course!!

Hello 911!

Doing a little work in the shop. It is very "noisy"

My little artist painting a picture

Lincoln enjoying the paint She loves to dance. My little Bunny! In the mill room making her name

I am not normally in the pictures in the but I actually made it in to some of the pictures!! Yes, he still has his cheesy smile!!

My little Rapunzel

Averie's new favorite movie is Tangled and tonight she sang me a song from the movie. I thought she did an amazing job. I included the movie version so you could compare.

We always have music on in the car and the other day Averie asked me how she could get on the radio. She truely is our little performer!!!

I hope you enjoy her little song!!

Back to Reality

Well this week we went back to reality. We just finished Averie's spring break and Danton's was the week before. I loved both of there breaks. I really tried to not overfill them and focus on really enjoying them. I think they both needed the breaks I know I sure did. Several months ago Danton was made aware of a John Eldredge retreat being offered in the Winter Park area. The entrance was a lottery system and his name was chosen. The retreat was last Thursday through Sunday. He had an absolutely amazing time and was so glad he was able to go.

I am realizing that my little girl is also growing up so quickly. Yesterday she and her dad were reading about Solomon and this was her question to him. Daddy, Why did Solomon not marry good wives...did he just like there good looks. Needless to say her dad was a little caught off guard. Today we were driving and an "older" lady cut me off and she told me that I can't get upset at her because she is old, and old people don't know how to drive any different. She told me they can only look forward. I don't know where she gets some of her stuff. The week before her spring break her class went to a local dinner theater for a presentation of Rapunzel. It is a program geared for school aged kids, so there were several other schools there. I was really hoping to be chosen as a volunteer to go because I knew this would right up her alley, but unfortunately I was not chosen. While they were there she was the only one from her school to be chosen to go up on stage to dance and shake her maracas!!! Here is a picture another mom sent me!


Lincoln keeps me as busy as ever. I don't know where he gets all his energy. But when he isn't all over the place he wants to be carried and cuddled. He is really trying to communicate with us and is getting better by the day, if you say something he will often repeat it. He does have some good tempers though when he doesn't or can't get his point across, he is a VERY particular little boy. He loves to talk about things that are "noisy"... Papa's shop is very noisy! One of his other new words is "Um" when you ask him about something he just looks at you and says "Um"! He loves to talk about his Papa and nanny. When we are driving and get close to there house he gets SO excited. He loves his Nanny but that little boy LOVES his Papa! I really think he thinks his Papa hung the moon. I could list all his new words and his new favorite things but at this point we would be writing so many. He is growing up.

I have joined another book club and absolutely love it. I have enjoyed the books that have been chosen. Some of them have been out for a while but it is never to late to read a good book. I have also enjoyed the women I have been able to meet. One of my focuses this year is to get out and meet some good people. You really need to have good people in your life and to find good quality people it takes time but you don't find them if you don't put yourself out there.

This really has nothing to do with my post it is just an observation from me to you. When you are parked behind a car and they don't do exactly what you are WANTING them to do...you really don't need to honk your horn. I ask you to do two things before you lay on your horn. Simply count to 5 and ask yourself if it's really worth it and secondly, consider that it may be a mom who is desperately trying to quickly help out her kids before the light turns green. Because those 5 seconds of helping them really does make the ride in the car a lot nicer for the mom in it.

If you remember reading my post from a while back about "things you might not know about me" you will remember reading that my birthday is next week. I absolutely love my birthday and I wish I had more of them in a year!!! Final week countdown starts tomorrow!!! Hopefully I will get some picture of me and kiddos and post them next week.

Birthday Time

Averie on the morning of her birthday!!! She wanted to have French Toast, mommy's special scrambled eggs and of course Maple Syrup!!! She also got her favorite movie. How to Train your Dragon!!

On Sunday my parents came over to do some birthday celebrating! Here she is blowing out her "6" candle. She decorated cupcakes to bring into school so we had some extras to enjoy.

As you know Averie is very artsy!! I thought it would be a good idea to get her a "Big Girl" desk. She has also been asking for a lamp for her room so my parent's got her a lamp for her desk. She loves it so much and uses it all every day.
Before she gets everything set up and ready to go.

While her brother napped she was able to get everything all set up.

Here she is the next day using her new desk... notice who is using her old desk. It was quiet and peaceful for a while they both loved there own art spaces.

Her Birthday Party. We decided to let her pick a few friends and take them to a local pottery painting place. They all had so much fun. The fun part of the story was that on Saturday morning I woke up with double pink eye. Thanks goodness for Nanny who helped out.

My pretty Little Lady!!!

Nanny helping her open her gifts.

Wow, I can't believe she is 6!! She is growing up so quickly.

She was so excited to finally painter her dragon.

Some of the girlie's painting

All the girls enjoying some goodies!

Wrapping things up! She had such a great time! So grateful for that little girl!!!

Thanks again Nanny for all your help! Oh, and Papa too for watching Mr. Lincoln.

Quick Something

I am so impressed with this latest piece of Averie art. To me it is so simple but so cute. If you click on the picture it will get bigger and if you notice the rooster is shouting out "cocka doodle doo!!! I love her art. She is getting so creative and so good
While I was posting I thought I should add a quick pick of Mr. Lincoln. Yes, he is still sporting his new smile. He is SO proud of it. What a cute little man he is becoming!

Averie has her birthday party on Saturday and after that I will post pictures from all her birthday adventures!

What's New?

Mommy and Mr. Lincoln. He still loves his new smile!!

We enjoyed a very good visit from Auntie Kate and Larry. The kids always enjoy there visits

Averie getting to celebrate an early birthday.

She got a cute little outfit and and a very pretty ballerina that she can actually dance with

So, what is new?

Danton~ School is well underway. He is taking 2 classes; Anatomy and Physiology and Public Speaking. He is enjoying the A&P class and the public speaking class is really just for credits because I think we all know that is not going to be a challenging class for him!!! He is in the final stages of his clearing process for ambulance rides. He should be finished by the end of the month. For about 6 months at his full time job he has been working an account that has really been rough, they expect him to work 6 days a week and be on call all the time. It has taken a lot from him and the family. He will be starting Paramedic school in this fall and to get in you must have some riding experience. That is why he found an ambulance job that will allow him to ride once a week. With the current account, riding and school it was getting to be VERY overwhelming for all of us. We have been keeping our eyes and ears open for a full time job that would work with all his extras. There was a opening for another postition at his current job but, they wouldn't allow him to make the move, long story... So for a little over a month now Danton has been in contact with another dealership and has decided to make the move. They have told us that they will work with his school schedule so we have decided that at this time it is a good move for our family.

Lincoln~ He is just busy and like Danton says destruction personified!!! I can't tell you how many times he has hit his head because he chooses to bang it into something. I so don't understand that. He is learning new words and things everday and you can tell me wants to talk with you but doesn't know how to say what he wants to say so he just screams and points. He is great at signing and will do that if he can...I love that!

Averie~ She is loving ballet and anything art related. While I am writing this she and her dad are enjoying a date at CrackPots, which is a place you can go and paint pottery. She absolutely loves it there and would go every day if we would let her. She is so excited because she is going to have her birthday there this year.

Rebecca~ I went with Averie to school the other day on their 100th day of school party. That was fun, she loves it when I come in. Shopping with Lincoln has reached a very challenging level. He can get of the cart no matter how you strap him in. I can get about 10-15 min in before the challenge begins. I have decided that I am needing to take a break from shopping with him. I enlisted the grandparents this week so I could do my grocery shopping. That was the best idea I have had in a while and I think it was win win for everyone!!!

Enjoy your weekend and Happy Valentines Day!!!

New Smile and much much more!!!

These first 2 are from the snow we had a couple weeks ago. Lincon's first real experience of snow. He likes to eat it like most kids. And Averie looks forward to making snow angels every time it snows!!!

After one of Danton's 24 hour shifts he came home to quick get some food and a change of clothes and while I took Averie to school he was to put Lincoln down for a nap. I guess they both needed one!!!

We love Praise Baby in our house. A precious moment between daddy and his kids. Notice for a brief moment all kids are still!!

Lincoln helped mommy make cookies the other day and I think he has finally caught on to cookie dough. I caught him taking a quick sample and then quickly going back for more when he realized that it was in fact quite yummy!!

Let me explain this next picture. Lincoln has his spoon with dough and is actually happy. This is his new smile. So funny.

Lincoln's smile and my lovely little Averie

Daddy and Lincoln's new smile

When my Aunt Julia got married I got to be her flower girl. While doing some organizing I came accross the dress I wore. Averie wore it for about 2 days straight. She loves it.

One of Lincoln's favorite things is shoes. He finds everyones shoes and wears them around the house. This day his shoe of choice was his sister's saddle shoes. I couldn't pass up this picture. Here is Lincoln with his new smile and his shoes.