Happy Father's Day

I'm a little behind on my posts!

We had a wondeful day celebrating David. Will and I made him a Shutterfly photo book, which he loved. I also gave him and Will matching Colorado Rockies shirts to wear to the game that we went to on Father's Day. It was Will's first sporting event and he was very overwhelmed with all the poeple and noise. He loved clapping along with everyone when the Rockies' scored. I think his favorite part was eating ice cream out of a plastic helmet.

Carrie Underwood

Last night my friend Karen and I went to the Carrie Underwood concert. This is the second time I've seen her and I just love her!! She has so much energy when she performs and likes to talk to the audience. Our seats were on the floor so I was able to sneak up front and take a few pictures. The coolest part was that she rode on a car attached to the ceiling and performed a song right above us!

She was right above us! I've never been that close to a celeb before! I could even see her massive engagement ring!

Memorial Day fun!

We had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend! Meagan and Rhett flew in from London, Pam and my mom flew in from Tulsa, and my dad drove from Tulsa. Will didn't know what to do with all the attention! I think he was over kisses by day 2 :)

Meagan arrived on Monday and stayed with us for a week. We went to the mall, park, zoo and out to eat with her. Will loved spending time with her! Rhett flew in on Thursday and spent most of his time at the urgent care center due to an infected bug bite. He and Meagan spent most of the vacation going to places that aren't in London (Sonic, mexican restaurants, Target).

On Saturday, my friends and I organized a bbq for all the families. The day started out nice, but by the time we were ready to go swimming, it was cold and rainy. But it was fun to hang out with everyone.

Sunday was a beautiful day and we all went down to Pearl Street to walk around the Boulder Creek Festival.

The reason everyone came to visit was because of the Bolder Boulder which was on Memorial Day. This is the 4th year we have had family come out for it. I usually start training for it in Jan, but wasn't very into it this year so I didn't train at all. With that said, I was very happy with my 80 min finish. David ran the 10k in 59 mins!! Crazy boy!

Memorial Day fun!

Mommy group at the park. Love you guys!!
Auntie Meagan and Will at the zoo.

Will and Wyatt tasting strawberries at the bbq. They don't look too impressed!

Will thought it was very funny to sit on an alligator at the park.

The wind was so strong, Erin didn't even need to blow the bubbles; they went by themselves!

Mommies!

Will and Grandma on Pearl Street

Will with Grammie and Grampie

everyone (minus Rhett who was with his parents)

David and I on the bus to the Bolder Boulder

Dad and Meagan ready to run!

David and his mom post race

Will hanging out in his pool

Our favorite neighbors!

Mother's Day

I had a wonderful Mother's Day weekend. We started off the weekend at a nearby farm. Will has really been interested in cows lately so I knew he would love seeing them up close. We saw cows, horses, goats, sheep, and a bunch of other farm animals. He (and us) had a wonderful time! Saturday night we had two couples and their children over for dinner. It's so fun to be able to relax and enjoy each other's company. The kids had a great time screaming during dinner, but it didn't matter since we weren't out in public!

Sunday morning, we woke up bright and early and ran a Mother's Day 5k race in Denver. I haven't really been interested in running lately, so I pretty much thought I was going to die during the race. But I surprised myself by running the entire thing and finishing in 35 minutes! What a great way to start Mother's Day! My friend Lisa ran it with me. (I had a picture of us on the blog, but it got deleted and it's too much trouble to re-post it!). We treated ourselves to pedicures afterwards.

All in all, Mother's Day was perfect--the weather was beautiful and I spent it with the people I love!

As usual, he's already looking at the next thing we are going to do. Too busy for a picture with mom!

T-R-O-U-B-L-E!!

I would love to take him to Great-Grampie's farm one day :)

After dinner party bath with Wyatt.Pre-race

Colorado Springs

Hey guys. This is Will again. I just have to tell you about my very exciting weekend trip to Colorado Springs.

My mommy and daddy woke me up on Saturday morning and told me we were going on vacation. I didn't know what that meant, but it sounded fun! We got in the car and stopped at a store to buy some things and then we got gas....is this a vacation?? After all of those chores, we got on the highway and drove for a few hours to Colorado Springs. I had a great time watching all the trucks drive past us...and then I fell asleep for the rest of the drive. When I woke up we got out of the car and went into a hotel. I ran around for a while and then it was back in the car to find lunch. We ate lunch at a restaurant that was in an airplane! It was very cool to pretend to fly the plane and to see all the airplane decorations. I had a very yummy grilled cheese sandwich which I dipped in ketchup.

After lunch we stopped at a park so I could test out the swings. They passed my test!After the park, we got back into the car and drove to the Olympic Center. We took lots of pictures in front of the USA rings.

I was fascinated by this huge picture of a hockey player. Maybe I will play hockey when I grow up!

While we were outside of the Olympic center, I found a pinecone. I had to sit down and show the pinecone to each and every person who walked by. Mommy called me a "ham" and a "flirt". Silly mommy :)

After the restaurant, park and Olympic center we headed back to the hotel to relax. What is more relaxing that running around without your clothes on?! Mommy finally caught me and forced me to get dressed and go out to dinner with our friends Mickey and Allison. We had pizza and ice cream for dinner. I stayed out way past my bedtime and was very tired when we got back to the hotel. I went right to sleep and slept all night long!

I was a little confused when I woke up on Sunday morning, but then I remembered that we were on vacation so I was happy again. We had breakfast and then packed up the car and headed to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. I love zoos! This zoo is extra cool because the first thing you get to do is feed the giraffes! It was so fun!!

They are huge!!!

Mommy got very excited when she saw that the zoo had a moose. I also got excited, but then I fell and bumped my chin on the ground so my excitement was replaced with tears.

But who could be sad when they are in a petting zoo full of chickens and roosters?! Not me! I had a great time chasing them and squealed each time they looked at me.

I love my family!

We had been at the zoo for 2 hours when all of a sudden it got cold and started to snow! So we headed to the gift store and I bought a giraffe named Cheyenne.

After the zoo, we walked around a fancy hotel called the Broadmoor. It wasn't so cool to me because I wasn't allowed to touch anything. Then we had lunch at a train depot restaurant. I love phones and couldn't walk by this one without touching it.

I had a wonderful vacation with my mommy and daddy. Can't wait for our next one!

Easter

We had a wonderful Easter! David's parents joined us for the weekend festivities. They arrived on Friday morning and went to gymnastics with us. Will loved showing off his jumping and running skills. Friday night we had dinner at the mall and saw the Easter bunny. Will had already sat on the bunny's lap so we just looked this time. He loved the bunny the first time he saw him and squealed when he saw him the second time. He actually wiggled out of David's arms so he could run up the fence around the bunny. He was terrified of Santa, so I didn't know what to expect with a large bunny, but he was so excited!

Saturday morning was the Lafayette Easter egg hunt. It was much of a hunt as it was a mad chaotic grabbing of eggs. They spray painted a white circle on the grass and everyone had to stand outside of the circle. Then they dumped plastic eggs and bags of goldfish all over the grass. Someone yelled "go!" and all the 1-2 year olds took off grabbing eggs. Will didn't really get it at first; he kept trying to open the eggs one by one. But he managed to grab a few good eggs with my help. All in all, the hunt lasted for 2 minutes. But it was so fun watching him get excited over his finds. After the hunt, we went out to lunch with some friends. It was a great day! Saturday afternoon/evening was date night for David and I. We ran errands and had Mexican food for dinner. Yum!! Not the most exciting date, but we had fun.

Sunday was Easter. We were planning on going to 8am mass, but Will was sleeping. 10am mass, he was still sleeping! He was so worn out from the pervious day's activities that he slept until 10:30am! That's unheard of in our house. So we finally made it to noon mass and came home to prepare a yummy Easter dinner. Our friends came over for dessert and a small egg hunt. Wyatt and Will had a wonderful time running around looking for eggs and being silly together.

Monday morning the Tanners left and our lives went back to normal. We are resting up for the next invasion of family in May for the Bolder Boulder.

Gymnastics with Grandma

Showing off

Getting ready for the egg hunt. It was super windy so that's why he's all bundled up.

I love the Easter bunny!

On your mark, get set, go!

Lisa and her daughter Talia are next to us and Jen and Wyatt are next to them.

Plastic eggs are fascinating!

With Grandma and Mommy after the hunt

Easter morning. The Easter bunny brought him a Pottery Barn chair.

So excited about finding an egg at the hunt at our house

Will is stealing food off Wyatt's plate while he's not paying attentionThe whole family