James & Nathan

Nathan spent the day with us yesterday and the boys were VERY busy. After church and brunch, they helped me wash my car and the car seats which turned into them playing with the hose and a bucket of water. They were both soaked after this and probably cold. It was in the 60's yesterday but it is March!

So they had a bath to warm them up and Doug put their hair in "dippety-dos" when he washed it.
After naps, we played on the deck. Doug built James a picnic table last week that is just his size! I am always impressed with my handy husband - I married well for many reasons and this is one of them.

Steamboat Springs

The three of us headed up to the mountains - Steamboat Springs - this past weekend for another little vacation. Cory and Nathan (Long) had rented a condo up there for a few days and they invited us to spend some time there as well so we decided to take advantage of the opportunity. Nathan's parents, Derry and Marlyce, were there too.

Doug skiied one day with Cory and Nathan so James and I took to the town. Steamboat has a great downtown area with lots of shops and things to look at. James was entertained as was I! Later on that day, we met up the guys for lunch at the mountain. I took one picture of the resort from a distance.

The rest of these pictures were taken in the condo where we stayed which was very nice and modern. It was a wonderful way to spend a couple of days!

Derry and Marlyce

Nathan and Cory

Mary Poppins

To end the week of my spring break, I took Kaylynn to "Mary Poppins" at the Denver Performing Arts Center in downtown Denver. It was quite the production and we both loved it! We both got all dressed up in "pretty dresses" to go to the theater.

James wanted to be in the pictures too.

Cory and Jamie stayed home and took care of James while we were at the play...I'm not sure what they did besides let him drink some chocolate syrup as shown in this incriminating photo.

Spring Break!

I had the week off from work because of spring break so we went up to Estes Park for a couple of days. We spent alot of time swimming and James worked on his floating skills.

We also ate really good the whole time we were gone including lots of treats like the giant Snickerdoodle James is chomping on.

While we were wandering the streets and shops of Estes, it started snowing pretty hard...

And we also went bowling while on vacation - Doug pointed out that we could do this at home however I brought up the fact that we never do! So we went bowling. James had a good time watching the balls come back up and trying to lift the balls.

"Gun Show"

Doug has been teaching James how to flex and show his muscles. So now when Doug says "Give me a gun show", James flexes, grunts, and looks like this. It is pretty comical!

Park time with Kaylynn

Last weekend, Cory, Jamie, and Kaylynn came over for an afternoon and we took the kids to the park. James did his best to keep up with Kaylynn.

They both loved the slide, of course.

And this was the best one of the 2 of them together.

Best Buds

James and Nathan have gotten to play a couple times in the past week and we took some pictures of the boys having fun together - goofing off in a restaurant, playing in playland at McDonald's, and swinging in the park.