Friday, July 27, 2007

July Birthdays

Happy Birthday to Justin and Shane. Both their birthday were in July so we got to celebrate twice! Jyllian was not quite so sure of it being THEIR birthdays and not hers. She kept saying "Mine Birthday, its mine birthday." So of course Justin and Shane had to let her help them with the opening of their presents. She really enjoyed that. When the presents were all opened she would say "Presents all gone!" We had to get her a special bag and "present" too so because she thought all the gifts she opened were hers. It was pretty cute.
For Shane's birthday we went out to dinner at The Labonte. For Justin's I bought a prime rib from our local grocery store and we had Prime Rib at our house. Plenty to eat for both occasions.
Below are pictures...

JUSTIN'S BDAY CAKE

OPENING GIFTS
JYLLIAN LIKES TO HELP!
BLOWING OUT THE CANDLES
SHANE OPENING GIFTS WITH DORA :)
MORE GIFT OPENING


BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY KISS!

HELPING UNCLE SHANE BLOW OUT HIS CANDLES
EATING FROSTING
HELPING OPEN GIFTS
WITH UNCLE SHANE AT DINNER!
JYLLIAN, UNCLE SHANE AND GRAMMIE


SHANE'S 30 BDAY CAKE
CUTIE PIE



Friday, July 20, 2007

Family Vacation

This year we took our Family Vacation down to Colorado. We spent time in the Denver Area going to see all the sights. We went to the Downtown Aquarium, The Children's Museum, and Colorado Rockies Game, The Butterfly Pavilion, Casa Bonitas and lots more. After we left Denver we went to Estes Park. The drive up was absolutly beautiful as was Estes Park itself. I told Justin I would live here in a heartbeat. However housing is extremely expensive so I don't see that happening anytime soon. We had a wonderful vacation. We have lots of pictures so I will attach them below. Enjoy!






















We have lots more pictures that I will eventually get on here--maybe in a slideshow?!! But for now I am tired of posting pictures :)

Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Happy 4th of July!

To celebrate Independence Day we decided to take a float down the river. We were a little nervous about Jyllian, and this being her first time in a raft with a life jacket, but thought we might as well give it a chance. We decided to take a short float--only an hour long. Justin had gotten a raft for his birthday last year from Jyllian and today would be the first chance we would get to try it out. Shane and mom were coming along too. We got all the rafts filled up and we took off...we soon found out we didn't have enough air in our raft as we were all three sitting in puddles of water. We also soon found out that Jyllian does not like a life jacket, and we probably should have brought some milk for her to drink with us. She cried for awhile....and we decided we should have probably only taken a 1/2 hour float. Oh well we still had fun.
After we floated we brought Jyll home to take a nap before heading up to Casper for this Fourth of July Extravaganza. It turned out to be not very much fun at all and we only stayed for like 10 minutes. We payed $10 for 10 minutes. We went and got ice cream and went to the park to let Jyll play. Okay we played too....
We grabbed something to eat and came back to Douglas. Justin went to work...and mom and I attempted to go watch the fireworks. Only Jyllian wasn't having anything to do with that, so instead we stayed home and watched them on TV.
So it wasn't the most exciting 4th of July we've ever had. But we were thankful to be together and to be in this wonderful country where we are free! Happy Independence Day Everyone!!!