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!

Denali's preschool graduation icecream social

Emily is reaping the "icecream" benefits of her big sister graduating

Emily's first poo poo in potty

>We are so proud. She is almost 19 months and we have decided to try to start potty training her. I remember this with Denali, and how fun, yet, how frustrating it was at times. I am going to savor these moments though, now that I realize how quickly the years go by.

check out Emily's latest fashion

girls, girls, they love to play...

Why can't I hear???

Cheeks aren't for listening, silly!

blast from the past

Found these pictures when we sync'ed Ryan's old phone!

Ms. Clue-less

Emily and her typical clueless face. Grandpa Brent's little nick name for her.. "Ms. Clueless", I think this picture clearly depicts it.

snugglies

First day of school

Exciting day for our little Denali today... Last night before bed, we talked to her about all the fun things she will be doing in her first day of school. She must've stayed up awake long thinking about it, because she actually slept in very late this morning. I went into her room and yelled out, "first day of school, first day of school, first day of school" and I put Emily on Denali's bed, and Emily happily pounced on her big sister to help me to get her awake. Denali woke up quickly and she was still so excited about it, she ate very little breakfast. I even made her the cheesy eggs, which is her favorite. I got her all ready for her school, and took some pictures, and I guess sending my baby girl off for the first day of school must've affected me more than I thought, as evidenced by me running my beautiful black escalade (which was a birthday gift from Ryan this year), right into our beautiful garage door. YES, I decided to go ahead and back up JUST BEFORE the garage door opened up completely!! Luckily, the damage to my car was almost non-existent, and only thing I did to the garage door is that I knocked one of the wheel out of the track, which was easily fixed by handy daddy Ryan.
All in all, it was a memorable day with Daddy, sister Emily and mommy escorting our daughter to her first day of school. I think she will do excellent in her school.... if she is anything like her mama. Ok, daddy too... LOL!

Denali meets Santa

We have been talking up Santa to Denali, and it was finally time for her to meet him. She was so star strucked, so in AWE... She appeared to be nervous and excited at the same time. She still managed to form a smile on her face, despite how shocked she was to finally meet him.

happy birthday, Denali!

Grandma and Grandpa Workman, and uncle Tagg came into town to help celebrate Denali's 3rd birthday. Denali, once again, wanted to be dressed up as a princess for her birthday. She picked out a puffy white dress early on her birthday morning. Grandma painted her nails and mommy curled her hair. Denali helped grandma and mommy, making her a birthday cake. Of course, she enjoyed making it, but she enjoyed tasting everything even more. It's a special cake recipe that grandma Mary used to use for her children... thanks for sharing! As a special touch, mommy put a pink princess tiara along with her "3" candle. She could not wait to wear her princess tiara!
She received her red kitchen for her birthday, which she has been working so hard to earn lately. She had been earning and collecting her "good girl points", knowing that she is earning her red kitchen as a final reward.
Grandpa and uncle Tagg helped daddy to put together the red kitchen. She loves the kitchen, and she loves making "soup" for dinner every night. She also received the cutest "Dora" night time story book pillow that we read together every night, and she cuddles it to sleep.
What a great time we had, seeing our parents and Uncle Tagg. Grand daughters LOVED having visitors. We will cherish these photos and our memories for a long long time.

Happy Halloween!!

What a fun day it was! Girls dressed up early morning, and Denali was ready to be the "snow white" princess all day long. Her nails were painted, and her hair was curly. Emily was all decked out with a home made cheerleading pom-poms and a headband. We took the girls out trick or treating around our neighborhood, and met some really nice neighbors. This year, I AGAIN, attempted to make the "dinner in a pumpkin" that Ryan ate during his childhood. I thought that I got the right recipe and made it, but it didn't turn out as what he had pictured, but being a good husband that he is, he complimented me on it, and he and the girls enjoyed it anyways. DOES anyone have a good "dinner in a pumpkin" chili-like, soup-like, recipe that you can share?

By the end of the night, Denali was sad to end her day as "princess". She cried when she had to take the costume off. We ended up getting her in her regular pj's but we assured her that she could be princess again next year. We also let her sleep with her costumes laying, NEXT to her until she fell asleep. Needless to say, she really loved being a princess. Emily seemed like she enjoyed the curly pom-poms too.





All cheered out....