fireball

At my fitness class they always play this song so its always in my head. the boys love to dance to it...right before bed. soothing right?

https://youtu.be/lZWmo0-gGto

Broncos

Are you living under a rock? Did you know our home town team is going to Super Bowl 50? We were happy to be invited to 2 different parties for the game. Afterwards we came home set up the tripod and got these pictures. None of us realized that on timer it would take two.
Cute

Not for the faint of heart

On Tuesday night we dropped the boys off at the church for their kids club and then drove a block down the street to our towns Carmax. Two minutes after arriving we had to leave as I slammed my hand in one of the car doors. Probably would've not been so bad if I had opened the car door but instead I just ripped my hand out. Tears screams and blood later Ray made the executive decision that we were going to go to the emergency room. 3 stitches, setting a nail bed and a fractured finger later I was able to leave the emergency room. 

These pants went into the garbage can when we got home.

Yummy

Stitched up and ready for gause.

When I got home Ryan asked what finger they cut off and Connor let me know that I wouldn't be able to play video games with him for a few days.

Hockey week 2

So fun! The boys are learning so much and they are so cute to watch. Heart exploding with pride.

This tooth

This first tooth has been loose for EVER but Connor won't let us take it out. 

http://youtu.be/5FMK05zxBTk

Hockey

New season new sport. Both boys are in the same class (perhaps the first time eve) Saturday mornings. They both did better than we thought they would.

Thought this sign was hilarious

Maybe a puck can get this first guy out

Christmas 2015

 Always living away from family I think makes me appreciate Holiday's that much more. My parents help with the kids, the food, the clean up and house projects. Why don't they move in to our basement already??
In some ways I really glad that my cell phone has been no where in sight for 5 days but the disadvantage is I didn't take any Christmas day pictures. Grabbed the "fancy camera" today our last day and snapped a few gems.

 New Christmas books. If you have little ones and some how don't know about Author Mo Willems you really are missing out.

Hope your Xmas ''15 was merry and bright! ~Love, us.

Growth

These two use to be with in an inch of each other and with in 3 lbs. Connor now weighs 10 lbs more and I can no longer carry him. 

Connor's First Time Skiing

How cool is it that we can just "go skiing"? Ray took the day off to get Connor out on the slopes for the first time on a "warm" day when hopefully not the whole world would be there. Arapahoe Basin was go down on this blog for memory sakes of Connor's first ever ski mountain. He was in ski School 9-1. They are headed home now so I haven't gotten the details but Ray did say Connor said his throat hurts...let's hope the boy with a tonsillectomy doesn't have strep just in time for Christmas.

Updates

Wow that quite possibly was the longest we've ever gone between blog posts- are you still checking this out or have you now lost faith that we will ever update again?

This weekend was a busy one. Ray somehow convinced me that we needed to spend some Capital One rewards points and jet set to Scottsdale. I think he sold it to me as a 80 degrees with a  hot tub. It was 71 and overcast and no hot tub. It was a fun work holiday party though, everyone was glowing about Ray and the work he does. I wish blogspot.com would let me post videos because I can't really describe the "entertainment" they had. It was circus o lay style acrobats up on the ceiling on these hula hoops. Their also was an ice luge to take shots off of. Did I mention that Snoop Dog was at our hotel?

We got home around 1, unpacked just in time to go pick up the kiddo's from their 24 hour adventures at Casey & Mike's house. They were in their church's nativity/holiday event and spend the next day at  the Colorado Springs version of the North Pole. As Connor said, "Santa was on break" aka probably smoking a joint as CS is a hippy type of town.

Tonight we had the Denver holiday party downtown. It was hard to navigate our way down their as the party was congruent to the holiday 2 mile parade.

Seeing this picture gives me two perspectives; we are starting to look our age and are not mistaken as a older sister or babysitter when out with our children.  Also not getting carded very often. The downside is I am starting to spend time in the Target "beauty aisle" and my ears perk up if I hear someone talking about Botox. Not their yet, but ask me again tomorrow. PS i'm growing my hair out for my cousins wedding so its going to be getting real here so just accept the ponytails and hats I'll be modeling the next 9 months.