Turbo Summer...

Mark and I are starting to refer to the past few weeks as "turbo summer". We've packed in a lot in the last month. Partially because the kids are going to be on "track" (year around school) this year. They start on July 9th. They will be in school for 3 weeks then out for 3. The other reason is because their cousin Caitlyn is visiting and we wanted to do fun things with her.

It's been fun but we are sure tired at bed time! Yesterday we went to Estes Park for the day. Today we went to Arts On Fire and painted pottery. Everyone did a good job. I even painted something! Then we went to the park and had lunch. Back home to get Alex off to his drum lesson and then off to Alex's baseball game. Grandma came back from Steamboat today. Nice to have her back. I'm sure it was a lot quieter for her there! Caitlyn seems to be enjoying herself and we are really enjoying having her. I asked Monica if I could keep her (it's nice having another girl in the house) She said no. Darn. We are going to miss her... Here are a few pics from Estes Park.

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More Summer fun... Water World

We are having a great time with Caitlyn. Seems we've been on the go a lot but having fun. We went to Water World today for the first time. I didn't get very many pictures because I was too busy having fun going down the water slides....... I'm probably going to be sore tomorrow but it was worth it. The kids loved all the rides and especially liked the wave pool. Here are a few pics I managed to get.

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Tennis

The boys are having fun with their tennis lessons. Here are a few pictures Terra took...

Summer fun...

We have been staying busy. Mark's birthday was yesterday. We celebrated Sunday night with a spaghetti & meatball dinner. Then yesterday we went motorcycling. Mark taught Caitlyn how to ride. She already kind of knew but he taught her how to shift. She did great. She is a really fast learner. After riding we did a little hiking. Today we went to Pirates Cove for several hours. We are all tired tonight!

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It's Friday...

We've had a busy couple of days. Caitlyn made it in yesterday afternoon...yeah. For those of you that don't know Caitlyn is our niece. She had a long ride. She and the boys have been going non-stop ever since. They are really enjoying each other. Caitlyn lives in Houston so we don't get to see her very often. It's fun to watch how she and the boys pick up just where they left off. Not like they haven't seen each other in a year. We went to the aquarium (yes again) today. They had a good time.

Last night I was at Alex's baseball practice when I got a call from Mark. His question was "Don't worry but I was wondering what our emergency room deductible is"? He had cut his hand pretty bad working on the Go-cart. We all met up at the emergency room. He ended up with 5 stitches.. It was pretty deep. It's a little sore today but not too bad.

We got a new "Surfing" slip and slide. It came with a DVD that showed these surfer "dudes" doing all kinds of neat tricks on it. It didn't quite work as well as shown on the DVD. Imagine that! haha They still had fun.