SEPTEMBER IS HERE!
It is pretty crazy to me that it is 2008- let alone it is September of '08. Things just pass by so quickly. We went up to Breckenridge over Labor day. It was really nice to get away. Best part was we stayed at the hotel for free because it was one of those condo pitches. We sat down with the sales guy for a total of five minutes before he said "Well I can't really help you- lets see if we can get you out of here." AND my parents watched the kids for one night so Dave and I could celebrate our 3rd anniversary.

We went to a children's museum. It was a ton of fun. Lily loved all the stuffed animals- she kept trying to wrestle them- a skill she learned from her brother.

Of course Jensen was drawn to the many "boy" toys he went for the tools the trains and the tractors.


There was a cute bear cave. Lily loved hugging all the teddy bears. Jensen wrestled hugged and kicked them.

Jensen got to be a monkey and jump on a blowup play house. I had to drag him out.

We went on a beautiful little walk. I LOVE GARAGE SALES! We got the baby backpack for $15. Lily rode in luxury. This is Lake Dillon. So pretty.

Last weekend we went to Chatfield reservoir to show our love of this country and voice our opinions. Americans for prosperity.org Yeah for Drilling!
Dave thought the ATM station was pretty funny.

And just some cute pics of the kids:)

J.J. as a ninja

My BABY is Walking!

We have a ton to blog on!

First Lily is walking. She is 10 1/2 months old and she is getting around pretty well. She definently has the drunken sailor swagger down. SO cute!

Dave went out of town for a week to Houston-Here is him telling his story-

AND

THE OLYMPICS!

We celebrated the games in China by how else? We ate Panda Express had sparkling Cider and....

Watched the opening of the games on my parents huge HD screen. I love the Olympics! Olive hands:)

Kid in a laundry basket.

So I left for Houston on Saturday and was there till last Friday. We were supposed to visit some off shore rigs but TROPICAL STORM EDUARD has something to say about that. Becuase apparently its not safe to fly a helicopter into a tropical storm we visited some land rigs, which needless to say is boring for me after mudlogging for 4 months.

The food was good this is the Louisiana man who cooked our food. He had the accent to go with the spices. To paint a picture of the food; the potatoe salad was 3 to 1 favoring egg over salad. There were hot links and some kind of spice steak. Finally the meal was finished off with chocalate cake.

Me before our final dinner at The Houston Space Center. When I got to the Space center what is the first thing I see? R2-Freaking-D2. I knew this stuff was real, NASA says so.

This R2 unit was attached to a jedi starfighter. Sadly there was no Hyper ring to reach faster than light speeds.This is one of the old space shuttles......before we upgraded to star fighters.

These were the toliets in the bathrooms at the NASA center.

Lastly the final dinner at the Space Center. In the middle are the chocolate booster rockets filled with creme with a strawberry next to it. The main meal was a piece of chicken with a piece of cake on a bed of wild rice with aspargus between. I traded my chick for more steak.

GWABY!

Just some fun phrases Jensen has been saying. Tonight he demanded more gravy on his meat and potatoes, by emphatically demanding- GWABY!

He has always had a hard time going to bed the other night he tried to pursuade Dave to stay in his room a little longer by growling, and saying in every silly little voice he knows. "Read book!"

We were at Chick-Fil-a. When the play are had emptied out of other kids I told him "There are no more kids to play with- it is time to go home." He responded by opening up the door to the dinning area and demanding all the people eating "KIDS PLAY!" He repeated it several times. A couple of the kids actually came in to play with him.

We went on a little hike and Jensen exhibited is independance. He had to walk a long ways back from us just so he could pump his cute little legs and catch up with us.

FIX IT UP!
So we have been busy fixing up the house and I wanted to post some before and after pictures. And just in case you find them boring. Here are some cute pictures of my kids.

Jensen doing "muscles."

Before: Awesome Orange wall! But a bit boring.After: I put green plants above the cabinets. They match the counter tops and look nice. By the way: I moved from a tiny apartment with no cabinet space to too much cabinet space. I have two whole bottom cabinets that the kids "hide" in because they are empty.
Before: Knobs were black didn't mach any other hardware in the house, and they were all bent and loose.
After: Dave installed these sturdy knobs that match and look SO much better.Before: Outdated chandelier.After: Dave, my electrician, installed a cute new chandelier that matches- The drape rods:)I bought storage shelves off of craigslist (I LOVE CRAIGSLIST) to the hide all the toys.
Painted Lily's pad purple and made drapes. Yes I know they are not even. I'm gonna fix that- sometime...

Painted Jensen's room an awesome blue and made drapes. We are going to decorate his room pirate- so it is supposed to be the ocean color:)
Didn't do much in the living room, but I love the couch cover my mom made for us.

I'm going to do something about the mismatched bookcases, just not sure what yet

What a fun Week!
My friend Sarah Sussman came and visited from Florida. It was really nice to hang out with her. I feel so blessed that Heavenly Father put us together as companions. I have been blessed for the last five years because of her and her friendship. I love you Sarah.

PLUS she helped take care of my kids while I painted and did some other stuff 'round the house. My kids loved her and Jensen demanded that she got things like milk for her instead of me. Funny kid.

Sarah also witnessed Lily making great strides in her pursuit of walking. She is zooming fast crawling around. Sarah caught Lily's first standing up without holding onto anything. I think she will be full on walking within the month.

After Sarah's visit we headed out to Utah. We are used to the 4 hour drive to Provo. The 11 hour drive was a bit of a shock to our systems.
We had our moments of happiness. Thank goodness for Dollar Tree toys.
Thesunglasses had a better effect on Lily :) We stopped by Dave's sister MaryBeth's house. Jensen loves playing with his cousins. They have a steep driveway and the boys had fun rolling trucks down the driveway.
Tiana put together an awesome Barbecue tribute for my dad for his birthday. We played charades with some of our favorite things about my Dad. Happy Birthday Dad!

We went floating down the Provo River. Jensen LOVED it. Even the cold water. And it was COLD!






Lily just played with the tubes. Crawling in and out and in and out again. She was so cute.