Free day at the museum

The Weldons stuck around for an extra week to help me out with Jury Duty. So, we all loaded up on Monday and went to the free day at the Science Museum. 

The boys love playing in the astronaut play area.

They had a new Maya exhibit (which we didn't pay to see) that had some fun photo ops.

Even Grandma and Grandpa joined in the fun. 

The boys' favorite place in the museum is the dinosaur exhibit. They love walking through all the dinosaur bones and replicas.

Patrick kept running around saying "Saurs, saurs". He was fascinated.

We ended the day showing Grandma and Grandpa all the fun animal dioramas they have. 

Thanks for joining us at the museum!

Patrick's 2nd Birthday (part two)

Today was Patrick's actual birthday. For a 2 year old, it's pretty much a typical day. Take brother to school, go to the doctor, go grocery shopping, meet Dad for lunch, take a nap, and pick up brother from school. Then, we went out dinner to celebrate his birthday. We went to Red Robin.

I think everyone enjoyed dinner.

This is his new photo face whenever I saw "smile". 

He was very excited about the ice cream, but not so sure about them singing to him.

Happy Birthday, Patrick! I can't believe your are two. You are turning into such a fun, sweet boy. Can't wait to see what you do next.

Bolder Boulder

Back at Christmas, Rob and Whitney were talking about races they had ran. Joe and I foolishly brought up that we were thinking about doing the Bolder Boulder 10K over Memorial Day weekend and they should come out and join us. So, come February we all four signed up. Joe and I found an eight week training program online and got running in April. It was hard to find the time. Most of my runs were pushing a stroller with the two little ones while Josh was in school. I discovered there are a lot of hills in our neighborhood. Joe split his training between Denver and Alabama and discovered running at sea level is much easier. 

Well, after "training", the day finally arrived. We woke up nice and early Memorial Day and headed out to Boulder. The boys stayed with Grandma and Grandpa (thankfully). 

Here we are before we joined our running waves. All smiles (for now). 

Right before we started. It was pretty cool how they started. Each wave got a trumpet call to the line and a gun shot. Then we were off. We were serenaded by bands along the entire route. People who live in houses on the route come out and sit in their yards. Some just watched but most had their garden hoses out spraying people or offering food (like Doritos and cupcakes). There were a few fun outfits including a body suit that was the human muscular system (gross). I did okay for the first half but really struggled the rest. Joe was great and stayed with me the whole time. And....

we finished! (no photo of me at the end) We had a goal of 68 minutes and beat it by over a minute with an end time of 66:41.









Then we walked around Boulder, had a nice healthy lunch and came home to take a nap. Thanks Rob and Whitney for pushing us to do this. It was great doing it with you. I think that will tide me over on races for a while.

Patrick's 2nd Birthday (part one)

For Patrick's 2nd birthday, we decided to have a ball theme. This boy loves balls. It's his go to toy. So we made sure balls were every where at the party. 

On his cake...

and his dinner (meatball sandwiches, cheese balls, grape tomatoes, black olives, and melon balls). 

We also had bubbles to entertain the kids. 

We had a great turn out with Grandma and Grandpa Weldon, Alex, our friends the Rogers', Uncle Rob and Aunt Whitney, and our friend Casey. We enjoyed some good food and good conversation. 

Patrick really enjoyed when everyone was singing to him. 

And he even blew out the candle all by himself.

There were even balls inside the cake!

Then we opened all the presents. This boy is spoiled.

This one was hilarious because Daniel loves cars. This trailer carries 15 cars. There is a rule in our house that whoever the present is for, they get to play with it first and don't have to share it for a day. Well, Daniel really wanted to play with this so he spent about 15 minutes solid asking Patrick if he wanted to open it and play with it. Of course, Patrick had a bunch of toys to play with so pretty much kept ignoring him. Daniel was very persistent. It made for some great entertainment for the rest of us. It's hard to be five.

The adults were having fun as well.

It was a great party.

Field Day

The last Friday of the school year is Field Day. They set up games and races outside the school and the kids spend the entire morning running around outside. We dropped Josh off at school and then had a few minutes to kill before it started so the little boys found some balls to entertain themselves. 

Then Field Day started. I was a volunteer at the Soccer Ball Relay so I couldn't follow Josh's class around but I did get this picture at the relay next to mine. 

They do the same events every year, but Josh still loves it. Even better, Daniel gets to do it next year. He was pretty disappointed he didn't get to participate (and I forgot to bring snacks). Next year buddy!

Another Busy Saturday

The day started off with a football game for Daniel. He had a few good runs. The scored ended up 38-12 with the Broncos on top. They had a perfect season. Go Broncos!

Then we moved over to Josh's baseball game (well, Patrick, Josh, and I did. Daniel had to finish his football game. Thank goodness for good friends who will cart your kids around). Josh had another exciting game and also ended up on top 6-3. 

They are having a great season with just a few games left before the playoffs.

After his baseball game, Josh had to hurry up and change to get over to his football game (he is one busy kid). This was his final football game of the spring season and also only the third one he got to play (baseball games didn't allow more). He got a touchdown pass and a one point conversion pass to help his team to a 14-6 victory. They also ended with a perfect season. Go Falcons!

It was a busy day and a nice night at home. Everyone was exhausted (Patrick even went to bed at 6pm before dinner because he didn't get a nap and was too tired to eat). Its just the way I like to spend my weekends.

Snowy Monday

Just a typical Monday morning. Drop the big guy off at school, then come home and shovel 6" of snow. What? You don't normally shovel snow on May 12th? You must not live in Colorado.

You are missing out. Happy Monday!