summer 2014 - week five

a very brief update.
let's see...this week...

monday - drove home from the mountains, just hung out close to home.
tuesday - met our preschool friends at the park and then ate lunch at mcdonald's.
wednesday - miss kayla came to play with the boys. they went to the library.
thursday - uncle zach came for a visit in the morning and then the boys and i spent all afternoon at the swimming pool.
friday (today) - jer is off work so we'll spend time together, try to get some housekeeping done and packing for our trip next week. we are also grilling with friends this evening!

things of note:

harrison lost a tooth yesterday and due to the fact that jeremy and i don't ever carry cash i had to stealthily sneak harrison's own piggy bank out of his room and borrow two dollars from him in order to be the tooth fairy. i know. brilliant, right?!

we are just finishing the boy's read aloud book, charlotte's web. goodness it's taken us forever to get through it. i think we are all just slowing down on our reading and filling our time with other endeavors. i finished the hypnotist's love story and have moved on to attachments.

i'm making these yummy treats to share with our friends tonight - vanilla chex bars!

i think that's all i got for this holiday weekend. happy fourth of july!

summer 2014 - week four

week four already. crazy.


we played lego.

we went to the mountains. graham washed the car windows.

we had the best time in the mountains this past weekend with our friends. you can see more gorgeous photos and read about our adventures HERE.

on monday our friends liam and cody came over to play in the morning. no photos.
on monday night jeremy and i went out to dinner with friends. no photos.
on tuesday our friends tessa, leyton and grant came over to play in the morning. no photos.

on wednesday we went to the denver museum of nature and science. it was fun. here's harrison building a marble/ball run.

harrison drying his hands after playing in the new water feature inside the kid's discovery zone. for those who understand sensory issues, you know this is a BIG DEAL! hand dryers can be really scary!

graham using radar to detect objects beneath the sand.

learning about mars.

riding the wolf statues. giddy-up cowboy.

on thursday we were supposed to picnic and swim with our friends asher and brooklynn but i totally pooped out and declared it a stay-at-home day.


we had swimming lessons every day this week.

we grocery shopped and discovered the coolest justin's nut butter display!

both boys took turns using the pulley to drop the ball down the maze.

and that's our week in a nut shell.  haha! get it? nut shell? i'm funny. or not.


for your listening pleasure i'll leave you with one of my very favorite summertime songs. to me, this song just feels like everything summer should be. click HERE.

have a great weekend folks!

summer 2014 - week three

as usual we started the weekend up in the mountains. i took the boys by myself on friday so jeremy could golf with his buddy on saturday, an annual outing send them on for father's day. we drove home saturday afternoon so we could spend father's day with jeremy and papa.


here's graham at the playground at the lake dillon marina. it is such an awesome play area!

on monday we started swimming lessons.

on tuesday we had our friends india and jordyn over for a play day.

on wednesday miss kayla came to play with the boys in the morning. she has been helping us out by watching the boys some this summer. both harrison and graham love her. the day after her first visit with the boys harrison asked if she could come back over and go to the park with us. after she went home wednesday graham told me "i love miss kayla so much".  :-)


on thursday i had a migraine and my sweet friend michelle watched the boys for me in the morning. thankfully, i was feeling better in the afternoon and we were able to go to the library. both boys earned a free book for doing a great job with their summer reading! when we were leaving the library parking lot we saw this:

official pace car for the 2008 indianapolis 500?! i had to take a picture to show jer and papa.


today we played with cloud dough. it was so lovely outside in the shade the boys stuck with it for at least an hour!!

and look what jeremy found when he cracked his morning egg...

two yolks! kinda crazy that i've never in my life seen an egg with two yolks and then we find two in just a few weeks.

the boys and i are still reading through charlotte's web and i am still trudging through the hypnotist's love story.  i thought about giving up on it but decided to press on and i think (i hope!) i'll be happy i did. we'll see.

not much else going on around here. just a simple, quiet summer week. :-)

summer 2014 - week two

we started this week up in the mountains. can you find three fox that were so sweetly sitting just below our balcony? (blurry photo - sorry). we were up and back within 24 hours. in that time we saw bighorn sheep, elk, fox, deer, even chickens...but no moose.

teaching the girl next door how to make a paper airplane.

us at the zoo.

we saw the baby clouded leopards at the zoo. love, love, loved them. and i love that we've had the opportunity to see so many baby animals - tigers, giraffe, chimps...

playing with shaving cream and food coloring.

playing trouble. and every other board game we own.

the boys' read aloud for the week.

my book for the week.

we got the boys a dresser from ikea and it has made my life so much easier! i used to fold their clothes in the basement then bring them upstairs to hang them in the closet. and for the record, this was the most difficult piece of ikea furniture i've ever put together!

harrison made a radio with his snap circuit set and it worked! we listened to the rockies baseball game. and hello there, dust.

we had a playdate and lunch with great friends this week, enjoyed it so much i never once thought to get out the camera.

summer 2014 - week one

we had some fun this week, we were a little bit productive this week, we were sometimes lazy this week...all in all, we are par for the course. :-)


hamburgers and french fries for dinner. the boys turned their fries into:  a) a road  b) a bowling alley c) a boundary their brother wasn't allowed to cross? if you chose "c" you are correct. fyi: playing with food is totally allowed in our house! we roll cucumber slices across the table, we make letters with strips of red pepper, we put grapes in our mouths and see who can spit them the farthest. playing with food is an excellent, non-pressure way to get your kids to actually eat the food!

this is what the boys did while we waited to have two new tires put on our car...

graham with my sunglasses on upside down...

 graham with my sunglasses on upside down four years ago. oh my goodness the cuteness...

 a chocolate pudding snack outside...

a game of "toss the sponge". i got this idea from a link someone posted on facebook. thank you, someone! and, yes, graham is wearing my winter boots. (cost = $1 for sponges from dollar store)

my book for the week, emily giffin's the one & only. i enjoyed it!

the boys' read-aloud book for the week. we just finished chapter six and have laughed out loud many times. we'll finish it this weekend.

 source

a marble run made from a pool noodle ($1 from dollar store). another idea from this link.

first time making tuna nicoise salad minus the nicoise olives because, ew, olives are gross. i loved it. jer not as much but he still ate the whole thing because he's sweet like that.

one thing i didn't photograph: our trip to the park where we picnicked with our friends from preschool. we have to just enjoy some moments instead of worrying about capturing them, right?

right.  :-)