A little catching up to do!!

Danton reading to the 3 little ones! Can you imagine if they were all ours!!!

Lily, Piper, and Lincoln
Averie getting a little cuddle time with Lily

Enjoying some outdoor time eating breakfast. I love that they love being outside and that they enjoy eating as many meals as possible out there.

Averie and her bird feeder. She wanted one and so she and her Papa actually made it. She was so proud of it. We have had many bird friends enjoy it.

Lincoln in his new "big boy" bed. He started climbing out so we had to change things up. He is doing fairly well with it. He doesn't fall out but he does get out about once a night. Most of the time he is still mostly asleep, I can just put him back in and he will got to sleep.

disregard the latest post...Lincoln

So, ignore the Lincoln post because you will see it again. I was in the middle of typing when a little person posted it for me. I haven't finished it and I still have pictures to add. Sorry!

Nebraska and More

We were able to catch up with our GREAT friends Brenda and Emil last weekend in Nebraska. As always we had a blast and laughed a lot. We absolutely love them and love that they love and enjoy our little kiddos as well.

Uncle Emil enjoying Averie's tea

Daddy and Danton enjoying there time as well.

It has been 2 years since we lost Danton's dad to Pancreatic Cancer. We hadn't seen his stone so we all made the trek out to see it. It was also special because for Danton's last speech in his Public Speaking class they were to do a commemorative speech and he choose his dad, and it was a great speech.

Averie helped put new flowers out

This side was dedicated to his military service

This side was dedicated to his family

We had a great time in Nebraska. It would be great to live closer to Emil and Brenda. Maybe someday!!!



On Monday Danton finished up his last class for the Spring Semester!!! I am so impressed with how well he does especially with all that is on his plate. He came away from both classes with A's.
Now we are ready to submit the final paperwork for Paramedic School and selection will be made in a couple months. He has been given verbal acceptance to Denver Health's Paramedic Program and if all goes through he will start in September and it goes until next August. This is a very intense program that will require school 3 nights a week for 4 hours and also 500 clinical hours. Knowing that he will have to put a lot of himself into that program we decided it would be best to take this summer off of school.
So, one person down with school and now we just have Averie. Very bittersweet. I am glad Danton is done but with Averie being done it just means she is growing and is going to be in 1st grade. Where did my little girl go?

Easter

Happy Easter Everyone. What a weekend we had here. On Saturday I had the kids all loaded up in the car to go to a Easter Egg Hunt and I realized my car battery was completely dead. Averie was so bummed that we didn't go to the hunt but her nanny and papa came out to charge the battery and she got to a couple of crafts with her Nanny instead.
Sunday we had a fun day. We started with church then it was off to Nanny and Papas for lunch and homemade ice cream.

On our way to church

They love their Nanny and Papa

My two guys!!!

Winding the clock is one of Averie's favorite things to do and now Lincoln is starting to join in the fun!!

Homemade Icecream Time!!

Averie is smashing the ice

Lincoln is adding the salt

Easter egg hunt at Nanny and Papas

Daddy helping Averie with the search

Averie showing Mommy her treasures

AW!!!

Next we were off to our friend Jake and Rebecca's house for more food and more Easter Egg Hunting

Stacy helping Lincoln gather his loot!!

Averie with her basket of goodies

Lincoln showing off his skills. He was hanging by himself.

It was a very long day but a great day of family and friends. We are blessed to have such great people in our lives!

Our Dairy

When Averie was one we decided to get our milk from a local dairy. Besides the milk there are so many things I love about the dairy. More than just getting milk my kids get to enjoy so many other experiences. If they are milking you can go in and watch and lately Averie has even got to help out. The dairy has about 12 cows they milk regularly and they use a machine but on this last visit Kenny let Averie try her hand at milking a cow by hand. She was so excited and loved it. They also had 2 baby cows that were only 2 days old. Kenny let Averie and Lincoln go out and see them and Averie even got to name them. The cow in the all the pictures with the kids was born about 4 weeks ago, Averie named this one Polkadot!! Thanks Johnson's Acres for such a great dairy experience!!!

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!!