WOW, I'm behind!!

That is horrible that it's been a month since my last post!!  I can't believe I let it get away from me like that!  It's not even that we've been super busy, we haven't done much worth writing about I think is it.  We've just done the usual, MOPS, play outside on a nice day, help out at the church, watch our ever growing list of Ghost Adventures episodes. . . .

But Now I have something worth Writing about!!!  Unfortunately it's now taken me a week to sit down and tell you all about it!  Ugh!  Anywhooo- Last weekend we went to Rocky Mountain National Park for the first time this year.  We always like to go right after they open Trail Ridge Road and get pictures by the walls of snow left by the gianormous snowplows.  This year with all the warm weather we've had they opened the road super early - May 14th!!!  It's usually around memorial day weekend, last year it was well into June before it opened.  So we decided to take the next weekend and head up.  Unfortunately, Saturday's forecast called for storms and that means snow in the mountains.  So we didn't go Saturday, but thought they might re-open the road in time for Sunday.  We took a gamble and headed up Sunday, and Lost - the road was closed, but we still got to have fun seeing the beautiful park!  It was an overcast day (still snowing up at Rainbow Curve where the road was closed) which hampered the landscape photography some, but made it a great portrait day for taking pics of us!  I got some really good ones of the boys!!  Here's a few of my Favorites!

Eating his banana for Lunch (love those blue eyes!)

Lunch break at Upper Beaver Meadows

Happy to be out of the car and running around!

The boys with Long's Peak

My little Rock Climber!

The view at the "End of the Road!"

Rainbow Curve - passed where we can drive

Mommy there's snow in my hair

In the snow!

Jayce checking out the cold stuff

Daddy building a snowball sized snowman

All the snowmen lined up in the street

Jayce thought they needed some Pine needle-hair

The STI "on top of the world"

Walking around Bear Lake.  This was short-lived, Daddy Carried him most of the way!

Once again, Riley climbing the big Rocks!

As you can see we took Cam's new car, he wanted to see how it handled going up the canyon...boys!!  Thankfully he took it easy on me!  I've been really sick lately, and the drainage from my sinuses was doing a number on my stomach.  I did think ahead and wear my motion sickness wristbands, which did help some, so he was able to play a little bit.  Sorry Cam - You'll have to go with one of your guy friends if you wanna see what the car can really do! 

Other than that we've just been hanging around the house, I haven't even taken any pictures this month until this trip to Rocky!  We have been going on Thursdays to Church.  I'm on the committee to help with decorations for VBS this year.  It has been so much fun!  Jan, the Children's Ministry Director, is our good friend and so just spending the extra time with her has been a blast!  Riley cheers every Thursday when I tell him "we're going to church to help Jan today."  She has a ton of toys in her office that she lets Riley bring upstairs, and the boys sit and play (or sometimes help with painting or gluing!!) while we all work on decorations.  It's been really wonderful.  I can't wait to see everything when it's all put together!!  I'll have to take some pictures to show you all.  The theme this year is SKY: Nothing's Impossible With God, so we've been making everything from clouds, to airplanes, to kites, hot air balloons, you name it!!  Next we're moving on to birds, butterflies, bats, owls, etc, for the main meeting room.  It should look spectacular!! 

Next Week is Riley's Birthday!!!  I can't believe he's going to be 5 years old!!  It's crazy how time flies.  This time of year is getting busy for us so we really struggled with when to do a party for him.  With Memorial Day weekend before his birthday and Cam having a race the weekend after, we decided to push back his party until June 9th.  We're doing a Splash theme party, with a bunch of water activities for the kids (sprinklers, kiddie pool, squirt guns, water balloons, etc.) so we wanted it to be warm enough too.  (keeping my fingers crossed that it's warm!!)  But we are going to do a "family cake" time on his actual birthday next week (partly because the cake for his party will be popsicles!!  Shhhh, don't tell!!!)  This is the first year he's really understanding his birthday and we've had to do a countdown on the calendar to show him how much longer he has!  it's so cute!  He loves telling everyone his birthday is on "May firty-first!!"  Cam and I are still trying to figure out what to get him, we've had so many other things on our minds that we haven't sat down to hash it out yet . . . guess we better get a move on!! 

So that's what we've been up to lately!  I'll try to be better about updating weekly (or even bi-weekly), so that I don't let it get to be a month between posts again!  Sorry!!!  Have a Great Memorial Day Weekend everyone!!!