I remembered

So summer is officially in full swing here in beautiful Colorado. We had a long cold spring, but the heat is on now.....guess we'll get to see how well those solar panels are working and if they are gonna save us some big bucks on the old electricity bill.

So let's see, what has happened since the last post...... We drove back to St. Louis at the end of May for a wedding. Chris' brother David and his lovely bride Beth tied the knot. A good time was had by all. I regret not fitting in a little euchre with my arch rival Uncle Tom and his side-kick Stoneface(Chris' dad)........it's game on the next time I visit! Mia managed to stick her finger in David and Beth's wedding cake before the official cake cutting with pictures happened. Sorry about that guys - but honestly, after having had a generous piece of that wedding cake, I have to say I don't blame her for diving in. That was probably the best wedding cake I have ever had. Kudos!

I also flew back to Ohio to visit with my dad and grandma. They are both in the same nursing home for broken hips. Dad has good days and bad days. He has a slow recovery due to diabetes. I am hoping he will continue to get stronger. My grandma, who is 95 years old, seems to be doing a bit better than my dad. The staff seems to think that she may be a candidtate for assissted living. Please keep them both in your thoughts....they need all the positive energy that they can get. And thanks to my fabulous Uncle Jo for handling the situation single handedly. I did get to see a few old friends during my visit. It was good to catch up with everyone from Shadyside. Also a big thanks to my friend Sharon and her family for letting me stay at their house and drive their car around on my trip. You guys are the best.

My friend Deni came out for a visit about 2 weeks ago. I took took some desperately needed time off at work and Deni and I did whatever we wanted for a week. We even managed to fit in a trip to Santa Fe with 2 other friends, Reynee and Andrea. I got a couple of cool new things on the trip. It was great to be able to relax a little and have some girlie time.

Last weekend for Father's Day we took the kids to a new park. Then, we drove around a huge community garage sale and scored some sweet new big kids bikes for Wes and Mia. one of the bikes needed a new tire. Chris just fixed that and we haven't had a chance to get them on the bikes yet, but I'll have to snap some pics when we do. I don't anticipate things to go that smoothly for Wes. You see, right after we bought the bikes we went to a sporting store to get helmets. They had a big row of bikes set up, and after circling them for a few minutes, the kids both hopped up on a couple of them. Mia picked a cute little pink princess bike and drove it around the store pretty successfully. Wes, on the other hand, climbs up on a big 16 " bike. He's all perched up there as happy as a lark.......and then you guessed it.......without even pedeling the bike, falls off of it and gives himself a big scratch next to his eye and a soon to be bruise. I'm like really?? We're not even riding the darn thing yet and you manage to pile it up right here in the store. Maybe I need to get a big roll of bubble wrap for him and mummifly him up before we send him out on it.

So about the title......no, it's not about remembering to finally post a blog. As many of you read last year about this time, Chris claims I forgot our wedding anniversary. I still say technically I didn't, but we will never agree on the truth of the story. Anyways, this year I was sure to remember.....I even had the card several days in advance. My friend Joleen came over last night to watch the kids for us and we went out for a big fancy dinner. Happy 6 years babe.