April 17th

I just realized that I hadn't blogged for the past week, so here goes.

First of all, a HUGE thanks to everyone who bought candles from Kristian for his Space Camp trip. He managed to sell $190 worth of candles, which means we will only have to pay $45 for the camp!! YAHOOOOOO!

On Tuesday, I had a doctor's appt. The medicine that was finally working for me was recalled. What is up with all the stuff being recalled lately? Makes me scared to eat anything! The new medicine does seem to work, but it does have its side effects too. I am supposed to be taking it 3 times a day, but switch around from 1 - 3 times instead. I just base it on how I feel and it seems to work out fine. I am still pumping away at exercise class and finally after adding 2 more days of working out, I am seeing results! YIPEE!

Kristian had a field trip to the aquarium in Denver. He said that they had a great time. He has been before, but it has been a few years. I think his favorite was the sting ray exhibit.

Mike has been working really late these days. He is getting ready to loose a guy on his team and it is only going to get worse once he is gone.

Kristian was supposed to have a spaghetti dinner fundraiser for his Space Camp trip, but we got another snow storm. It was supposed to be a blizzard, but in the end, ended up being a fizzle. We did end up with about a foot of snow though, but the wind didn't blow like they predicted, so it wasn't as bad. Kristian was supposed to have a snow make up day on Friday, but ended up getting another snow day instead. He was happy!

Saturday, we went into town for breakfast. Then we took the kids to Toys R Us and ran a few errands. On Sunday, we took Kristian to pick out an MP3 player for his birthday. He was thrilled to finally get one. It isn't an IPOD, because until he proves to us that he can take care of it, he won't be getting anything that nice! He didn't care though, he just wanted something. The guys went and got their haircuts while I went to Super Target. How nice was that to be able to shop without kids hanging off the buggy? PRICELESS! Kristian is worse about it than Dylan. He thinks hat since he has his Heeley's on that it isn't that hard for me to push! Yeah, right???

Today... Has been one of those days... Just when you think everything is going great, BAM! A slap in the face. It started small. The kitchen phone broke, not sure how, just pushed a button and it fell in the phone? Cheap phone I suppose. Then Dylan, somehow, found a pocket knife? Again not sure how, but he did. Luckily, NOT keeping with his usual self inflicting nature, he cut a slit in the port a crib instead of himself. That I was thankful for, but not thankful that he cut the crib! Now, it looks like a white trash port a crib. Beautiful tape holding it together. I am sure when Mike gets home it will be DUCT taped together for me. OH JOY!! There were other little things, but by 5 o'clock, I was breathing a sigh of relief. I put the dog outside and the boys are playing. WHEW! I survived!!

Well I guess that is it.. No pictures this week. I will try to get some for next week though. Hope everyone had a great week. Until next time.....

April 2nd- April 9th

Hope everyone had a great week!!

Not a lot happened in our last week, which isn't a bad thing!

Kristian had an awards breakfast on Wednesday morning. He was awarded for having an A average. We are very proud of him.
On Friday, Tracy, Cat and the kids came out for lunch and to dye Easter eggs. We had a great time. The picture above is of Tracy and Rebecca and below it is Kellie, Russell and Cat.Saturday we hung out around the house for the first part of the day. Then Tracy and I went to town. We watched Premonition, with Sandra Bullock. It was good, but weird. It keeps you guessing. Then we both had to pick up a few last minute things for Easter.

On Sunday... The Easter bunny came. Both of the boys got candy, of course. Dylan got Charlotte's Web and Kristian got an Avatar movie. We watched Charlotte's Web and then had a late breakfast of pancakes and BACON! YUM. The Bowen's came out for Easter dinner. Everything tasted so good! We had HAM, which luckily Dylan didn't catch on to the fact that ham and bacon come from "Wilbur"! The kids had to hunt eggs in the house, because we ended up getting a Winter Wonderland outside. This picture was taken early in the day! We estimate that we got between 4 and 5 inches of snow! The guys played a 4 wheeler game on the PlayStation and as you can see dug through the kids candy!! Cat and I watched Desperate Housewives. We had a great time!

Today the weather turned warm and by the afternoon all the snow was gone. Typical Colorado weather. It wouldn't surprise me if it snowed in the middle of June. So much for "Global Warming", huh?

Well I hope every one's week was a good one and that you each had a Happy Easter. Until next week....

Spring Break!!

Despite the weather, the kids still had a great Spring Break. On Monday, Mike left for California and we just hung out around the house. On Tuesday, I took the kids to Toy's R Us. Kristian had A's and B's on his report card, so he got to pick out something. He got a skate board. Of course Dylan got something too and he picked out roller skates. Surprisingly he has done really well on them, considering how accident prone he can be! After that we went to Woodland Park and went to the Dinosaur Resource Center. I wasn't very impressed with it, but it passed two hours of the day and the kids had fun, that's what matters. After that we went to Garden of the Gods and had lunch. They serve Buffalo burgers and the boys loved them! We went for a walk after that and then headed home. On Wednesday we hung around the house so I could catch up on things around here and then ran into town to pick up some groceries, which the boys weren't that thrilled about. Thursday we went with some friends to Chuck E. Cheese. The kids had a great time. We stayed for about 3 hours and probably could've stayed all day and it still wouldn't have been long enough! After that I ran by the store and headed home. Tracy and the kids came over for dinner that night and to watch Survivor!! We had a great time. Friday Mike was supposed to be home around noon, but the airline over booked his flight. So he ended up not coming home till around 5 that afternoon, but they did compensate him with a free round trip ticket to anywhere in the continental U.S. So at least they did that! Me and the boys met him in town and had dinner at Johnny Carinos. On Saturday, I went to a scrap booking get together at Tracy's house and Mike worked on Tracy's brakes. I hadn't taken my scrap booking stuff out in probably over a year and actually had no desire to do so on Saturday, but once I got back into it, I had fun. On Sunday we went again to Garden of the Gods and walked around. We took Max with us and boy was he tired last night!! If only I could do that everyday! And now we are back to Monday. Which means back to school and work for Kristian and I. I reminded him that he only has 8 more weeks of school left. Which seemed to raise his spirits a little!

The pictures above are from the Dinosaur Resource Center. And some mule deer that we saw at, you guessed it, Garden of the Gods!

Well I guess that is it for this week. I hope that you all had a great week too. Until next time...