Ramen

I've held back for too long. I've denied Lucas, until recently what has to be his favorite food: Ramen. This was (I think) the first time I'd ever given it to him, and he just couldn't shovel it in quick enough! This might not be as funny to everyone else as it is his parents, but I just can't watch the first couple of seconds without laughing.

Vacay

Last week we took a trip south. We hung out with some friends in Oklahoma City for a couple of days before we went on to Ft. Worth. Daddy took his chemistry final (and made a 96 on it, woohoo!) while both grandmas and a great grandma of the boys and I went to the Fort Worth Zoo. Then Grandma Pearl got us a hookup at a bed and breakfast. I've always wanted to go, and it was so nice, they even made heart shaped gingerbread cookies and iced them with our names. Of course, I left my camera somewhere else. Now that James is in his first full time job, I can really appreciate the vacation time the government gives.
We got back Sunday night and on tuesday I had a minor surgery. All went well, I'm just doing this post on a little bit of Percacet. hopefully it's coherent...( :

Weekend in Denver

This past weekend the boys and I drove to Denver to spend time with family we've missed. Here are the boys with my grandmother:

Reading books with my aunt and cousin:

Their cousin Christian came for a visit. We tried to get a photo of them lined up, but this is what they had in mind.
And the lone photo I took of our trip to the children's museam. That place is so cool! Lucas looks good as a firefighter!

A few things have happened since my last post. I was just saving them all. First my anniversary plans, they went through, but we did get to go to some hot springs nearby (kidless) and go see transformers. I had a full day of activities, a hot air balloon ride too, but things just didn't workout. Then my birthday. I'm 26....I feel like I'm now older cause I've surpassed the quarter of a century that is still youthful. I think I look the same as last year though, that's a plus! And Aunt Jackie and Uncle Ryan came to visit! We went camping, bike riding, and hiking and had fun! Camping was a first, we've been wanting to go for a while, though we need to practice it more to get to boys used to it. They woke each other up in the middle of the night and started playing. I wouldn't have minded so much, but the nearby campers stayed up later partying that night and weren't too appreciative. Then my friend Lauren and I ran our 5k. It was about a ten minute a mile pace, but hey, we did it. We had only been running about 2 miles so we did ok. I'm happy to have run a race, it was my first! As for pictures, I've been bad, the only pictures I have of any of this stuff is what Ryan and Jackie took and gave to me, but they made up for my lack of photography by taking a whole lot. Here are some of them in no special order:

Hanging Lake

Yesterday we went on another hike. This time, we went to Hanging Lake in the Glenwood Canyon, which has some georgeous views! It was a three mile hike up to the lake and back. Not too far, but the trail is loaded with big rocks you constantly have to maneuver around, anpretty steep. The thing that was hard was carrying the kids on our back, but they had fun and Cobin hiked when he could.

Here are our hiking companions, equally loaded down.

So beautiful!!

Sleepy Boys

I took this pic of Cobin a couple of weeks ago, but just forgot to post it. I got back from my run and Cobin had crashed in the upstairs hallway(he's to the point he won't sleep during quiet time but still gets exhausted) He was so out!

Lucas is 18 months and has long since given up his afternoon naps, and he gets really cranky in the afternoons. So, I decided yesterday to push back his morning nap to just after lunch. He did fine yesterday but today I guess going to story time wore him out because I was otherwise occupied for a few minutes while the boys finished up lunch and came back to this! He had to be uncomfortable but was pretty mad when I woke him up to clean all the food off of his face and move him to his crib.

Grandpa's Visit

This past week Grandpa and soon to be Grandma Sharon came to visit us. Cobin got his first big boy bed....up from the toddler bed. We had some adventures and celebrated his birthday a little early, he turns three June 9th!

For Fathers Day we made some stepping stones from the boys' handprints. They didn't harden enough, so they were still in the casts when we made them.

Here is a picture of Cobin trying his best to hold up just three fingers. It was so funny, and then when he was done he told us that he blew out "three fires" ...aka candles. ( : He had a blast with all the birthday booty. We drove my dad out to see Lake Sylvan. We all want to go camping there, it is so beautiful, right near our home. Cameras don't do it justice.