Curnes in Colorado

The past few days the entire state of Colorado has been in shock as the Curnes Family finally made it's way out here.  It was a short visit, but we tried to pack in a few fun things and scenery along the way. We visited an old school amusement park in the foothills (Heritage Square).  Paul and kids did the big Alpine Slide which is a 1/2 mile slide down the side of a mountain that you have to take a ski lift to get to the top of.  We went to a Rockies game. We toured The Cave of the Winds and Garden of the Gods. Visited the Olympic training facility. On Sat we had a small BBQ as another of our Ohio friends (Tracy Raypholtz & her 2 girls) was in Colorado for a visit.  We all ate way too much and are now on diets.  Thanks for the fun and great memories.  I miss you guys already!  Here are a few pics of the past few days:

  

Happy Birthday to Daddy

Today is Chris' Birthday!  Happy Birthday Dad.  Chris went to see his favorite baseball team tonight with a friend for his birthday.  Only downside is there are lots of thunderstorms around Denver tonight.  I hope you guys stay dry!  Because we knew dad would be going to the game tonight, we celebrated his birthday at home yesterday evening.  The kids helped me bake cupcakes and we sang happy birthday.  Here are a couple of pics from the festivities...

Bumper Crop

About a year and a half ago we got a cool patio tomato planter from Chris' parents for Christmas.  Many of you may remember Chris giving his parents a pretty hard time about it.....In fact, I believe he said "all I got for Christmas was a bag of dirt."  Well let me say that we were finally able to put that planter to good use this summer.  We planted two little tiny tomato plants in there at the beginning of the summer, and now they are two huge tomato plants and we are picking fresh tomatoes off of there nearly every day.  I have not had such good luck with tomato plants here in Colorado, but this planter has changed my opinion about growing my own plants.  Even Chris is impressed and wants to get 2 more of the planters so we can grow other things next year.  Wes and Mia are totally into it too.  They love to help take care of the growing plants.  Here are a couple of photos of our most recent harvest:

  

Catch Up Post

It's hard to believe that summer is here already.  We have been getting hit with record high temps and it looks like the heat wave will continue for the upcomming week.  We really have not done too much over the past couple of months.  Chris' job has been really time consuming so we rarely have time on the weekends to do much as a family.  We are hoping that will all change now that he is starting work with a different company tomorrow.  And as Chris says, anything will be an improvement over what we have had to deal with over the last year and a half.  Looking forward to getting my family back!!

Let's see, the kids and I have spent lots of time at the park and the zoo.  We also just pulled out the big ole water slide this weekend and had some friends over to play.  Chris' buddy Skip and his wife Beth came out to visit us recently.  The guys went golfing and the women folk tried to shop, but then Wes got really sick and actually came down with strep so that pretty much ended the shopping for us.  Oh, the kids also recently had preschool graduation, which is where I believe Wes got the strep.....anyways, I had no idea what a big deal it was going to be.  It was like 300 poeple by the time you got all the kids, parents, gradparents etc - crazy!

We are heading to St Louis for the 4th of July.  Looking forward to a few days off.  The kids are excited to see their grandma and grandpa and all the cousins.  My friend Sharon and her family are again teasing us with the possibility of them visiting in August.....love you guys, but I'm not gonna hold my breath just in case :)

I will try to post pictures more frequently over the summer......until then, here are a few shots from the past couple of months....

 

Puppet Show

So Wes & Mia have taken to putting on little puppet shows before bed. They crawl over to one side of the bed and we sit on the other and they take turns singing songs with their favorite animals......really funny to watch. Here is a picture of them in action:

Also, we were lucky enough to have a visit from Uncle Brian and his 3 boys this past few days. His boys were on spring break and so they drove out for a couple of days. They got to take in a few sights around Denver and we also made a trip up to Copper Mt to take the kids tubing. What a fun day! Wes & Mia already miss their cousins (Liam, Tristan & Owen). We sure hope you all are able to come out and see us again soon.

Tubing at Copper Mt with the Kansas City Tepen's

Big Kid Bedrooms

The time has finally come to give the twins their own rooms. After weeks of planning, they are nearly complete. Mia picked out flowers and butterflies for her room. Wes picked out a fireman theme. Althought they LOVE their new rooms, they still insist on sleeping together. They take turns sleeping in each others rooms. Here are a couple of pics: