Happy happy Easter

Started out as a busy day, with an early morning rise with 2 excited girls who were too anxious to see what the Easter bunny had brought them this year. They rushed down the stairs and saw 2 basket full of stuff, and their faces lit up! Easter egg hunt was exciting this year, with Emily much more aware of what to do. They found all 65 eggs. We then had breakfast, and the 3 girls were busy in the bathroom trying to get all dressed up for the Easter day service at the church. Church was awesome with a great message about how God is in control of our lives, even in those times when we are feeling completely out of control. Jesus, who has risen from the dead, is all mighty, and all powerful, and so why shouldn't we trust our lives in him? What a great, powerful message it was!
Then we came home and I proceeded to make a nice Easter feast, but the turkey didn't turn out all that great.. Oh well, I will just make turkey soup with it.

Ryan's surgery date is coming up this wednesday.. Thank you to ALL of you who've cared! We appreciate all of your sincere words of love, advice and your thoughtful prayers. Please continue to pray for the successful outcome of his back surgery!
April 7th, 8 am, Avista Adventist Hospital, Louisville, CO.

Love you all,

Denali's 4th birthday party

Halloween 2009

ages 1 thru 5

Zach is 1, Emily is 2, Denali is 3, Normandie is 4, and Alex is 5.
THese are the adorable kids of our friends that came to visit us at the end of September. It was a blast to have them here. Thanks for coming ya'all.

My new beautiful craft room

My wonderfulllll husband has put his creative mind (and body) at work, and turned this theatre room into a craftroom. The theatre room was sorta useless, since we had a large rec room just outside of this room that already acts as a theatre, so this room was empty and unused for a long long time. Until one day I mentioned to my husband that I would like to create a craft room in the cold storage/ heater room area. We have a huge utility room, that is in the shape of an "L" that had nice lighting in it, and even more storage than we knew what to do with. I was determined to use up this area, and I was moving down desks, old rug, and old dressers, and that's when he caught me and told me that he would like to make a craft room out of the theatre room. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, I figured that it was going to take months before I see results, but not my husband, he had the cabinets put in the very next day. Then the next day we were picking out granite top, and 2 days later, the granite took place. I am a lucky, lucky, lucky gal, to have such a loving husband who would do anything to make me happy. I love you babie...

Magical... simply magical

It was our 5 year anniversary... Ryan booked a phat suite at the Ritz Carlton and he had arranged it so that there were rose petals and romantic music playing when we checked in. We enjoyed being alone for a change (we love our kids, but we don't get much alone time), so we watched 3 movies back to back, staying up until 3 a.m. The next day we decided to lengthen our stay and include our girls in this time. So we picked them up and checked back into another suite and we had so much fun together!
How lame were we though, although we really enjoyed being alone away from our girls, we still missed them, and we couldn't stop talking about them. We sorta couldn't wait to check out after the first night to pick them up to bring them back to the hotel. I guess that's what being parents is all about... I missed my kids so much... I missed how my baby Emily smells... and everything!

Date night

We are so lucky to score Rockies baseball suite tickets thru Ryan's work. It was so much fun, lots of great food and GREAT seats!