4-21-09 to 4-23-09 Tues to Thurs

Springtime in Colorado is great. The mountains are beautiful and the weather on the front range is warming. This is Ketner Lake, right across from Jaydon's preschool.

I'm loving my tuplips. So glad I put them in last fall. Gotta love a splash of spring color!

Corey left for his annual fishing tournament with his dad today, so I took the boys fishing at Ketner. Jared tried many different tactics, but didn't get a bite. He was pretty bummed. Josh spent his time at the lake exploring and throwing stick in the water. Jaydon perfected his cast. I tied a rubber weight on his line (no sharp objects allowed) and let him cast like crazy. Amazingly enough, he can cast about 30 feet.

4-19-09 to 4-20-09 Sunday & Monday

We headed for home on Sunday afternoon and stayed in Lincoln, NE with the Engels. Before we left, Nate, Emily, Kylan and Renee came over to Elaine's to visit.

On Monday, April 20, we celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary. Josh took this picture of us at Katie's wedding dance. We spent our day together, with our 3 boys, traveling I-80 to get home. We were in the car for 8 hours and everyone was a little tired of traveling. After putting the kids to ged that night, we sat down with our wedding album and relived the day. It was fun looking back and remembering the events of the day. I really can't believe how quickly 13 years goes by.

More wedding photos 4-20-09

Jaydon LOVED the reception. He had free access to the cake table and helped himself. He skipped the meal, which was awesome by the way, and ate cake...and more cake. This picture is his 6th slice. Looks like he's really having to force it down! Too funny.

Josh and Jared enjoyed themselves at the dance. They love the YMCA...Josh is the Y and Jared the A! Jaydon's favorite was the Hokey Pokey that he dance with Nana Nay!

Back left: Chad, Megan, BJ (Groom), Katie (Bride), Kristen, Zaylee, Joe

Front: Ken and Bev

Chad was our ring bearer 13 years ago...he was 3. Megan was a Jr. Bridesmaid in our wedding, and Katie and Kristen sat at our guestbook. Oh my, how the time flies!!

Iowa Wedding 4-20-09

Since there were so many great pictures from this wedding, I decided to dedicate the week to it. Corey's cousin Katie was the beautiful bride! We left for the wedding after school on Thursday and drove to Ogallala, NE for the night. Unfortunately, the pool was drained for maintenance, so the kids were pretty bummed. We made it to Remsen on Friday afternoon. The kids were definately ready to run around the stretch their legs. Corey had to be at the rehearsal, so Nate and I took the kids to the park. They were excited to see their cousin, Kylan. We stayed with Corey's grandma Elaine for the weekend. It was so nice to get to see everyone in that short period of time. In the photo above, Jaydon and I are dancing and I'm singing to him. He love "usic".

Corey got to visit and catch up with many of his relatives.

Elaine took this picture of our family before we left for the wedding. Jaydon left the tie on until 5 minutes into the ceremony. He looked to handsome!

4-12-09 Happy Easter!!!

Happy Easter! He is risen!!!! Everyone is dressed in Sunday best...so we thought we should take a few pictures.

4-11-09

Kami, Cade and Cassie came for Easter Dinner and brought 99 eggs filled with candy and money (change & $1). The kids had a blast hunting eggs, even though it was raining. Josh found the 1 egg with a dollar. Then we colored real eggs...and ate a few.

4-10-09

Corey took the boat to Cherry Creek Res. on Friday and didn't catch anything. He and Jared went to Chatfield Res. on Saturday and caught 7 walleye. They kept 2 for supper (we gave them to our neighbors). Jared's walleye count for the year is already at 13, pretty impressive for an 8 year old at the beginning of April.

Jared LOVES fishing...and Josh loves having his picture taken with Jared's fish!