First Water Slide of the Season

We broke out the infamous water slide for the first time today. The kids still LOVE this thing. Best Craig's List purchase EVER!!

O-HI-O

The Colorado Tepen's recently ventured to Ohio and West Virginia to visit some of my friends and family. Our trip started off with a one and a half hour delayed flight, which normally is a pain but not that big of a deal....in this case it really messed up our arrival into the Pittsburgh airport. We were supposed to get in at 11:45pm, that quickly changed to 1:30am. We almost missed getting our rental car and had a mishap with a new tollroad all of which added up to us arriving at my friend Sharon's house at 3am. Bless her heart for staying up to see that we got in ok...thanks Sharon :)

The next few days were filled with hanging out with friends and family. Uncle Jo as always entertained Wes and Mia with various kick balls, and they even got new slinkies which they enjoy playing with very much. The Curnes gang kept us smiling evey evening and really had a fun time playing with Wes and Mia. Gavin, the kids especially miss your wonderful company. We also got to spend a little time with my 97 year old Grandmother. She looked good with her new hair do compliments of Uncle Jo.....I think you missed your calling! Then, poor Mia got sick with a fever and she was already on antibiotics for strep throat. I of course was in full panic mode. Her fever finally broke 4 days later, and she is back to her normal self now. And we also got to spend time with my Aunt Linda....we love and miss you very much. A big thanks to the Curnes family for hosting us. We always love to spend time with you and wish we didn't live so far away.

Pics from the trip are below :)

Vacation Pics

Zoo Day

So at the last minute this morning the kids and I decided to head to the zoo for a few hours. It was supposed to rain today, so we were not sure if we would be able to make it or not. It was a little cool out, but that ended up being great for going to the zoo. It was't crowded and all of the animals were out because of the weather...ended up being one of the more enjoyable visits to the zoo that I have ever had. Here are a few pics of the day...

Toothless

Well, it finally happened....Mia lost her first tooth today.  I honestly don't know how it held on for so long.  The big girl tooth is already partially in.  She was fooling around after lunch bouncing off the ottoman when she hit her bottom lip slightly on the edge and she popped up and said "my tooth fell out".  Here is a pic of her sporting her new gap:

Happy Valentine's

Nothing too exciting to report here in Colorado. We have been bouncing between cold and warm weather for the last few weeks.  Not too much snow down here in town yet this year.  The kids are really disappointed because they are itching to go sled riding.  We got enough snow a couple of weeks ago for them to play in the back yard and there is a pic below of them having fun.  You can see the grass poking through the snow so it wasn't much to speak of.

The kids have been doing a gymnastics class since a little before Christmas at a local rec center.  They both really like it and I think we are going to have to investigate a real gymnastics place for them to go to.  I put a few pics of their last class below.  They got a little certificate at the end and are very proud of all the cool things they learned.

It is a pretty cold weekend here so the kids and I made cookies for Valentine's Day.  They love to eat the sprinkles and made a pretty big mess decorating their cookies. I think it took me longer to clean up than anything else, but at the end we made some pretty cute cookies.

There has been lots of tooth stuff happening here.  Mia has gotten in both of her top 6 year molars and is in the process of losing her first bottom front tooth.  I honestly don't know how the darn thing is still in there.  I mean, I've never seen a tooth bend at those kind of angles - yuck!  Wes is also just now starting to get a wiggly bottom front tooth.  I can't believe how fast they are growing!

This final pic is from New Year's Eve.  We had a few people over and Wes and his buddy Blake have the same police uniforms and did a good job of keeping all of the adults in check!  Nice work boys!

Merry Christmas!

The Colorado Tepen's had a wonderful Christmas morning. The kids actually stayed in bed until we went in and got them....bet that doesn't happen again - ever.  We opened presents and then hung out in our jammies all morning.  Unfortunately, we had a little tummy bug come through our house a few days ago.  It started with Mia Friday at midnight.  She was pretty sick all night and into Saturday.  The rest of us thought for sure we escaped it, but alas, Chris and I got it last night.  Chris was much worse off than me, but neither of us had a very good Chrismas eve.  Looking forwrad to afternoon naps today!  Here are a few pics from this morning and from earlier in the month.  For those of you who didn't know, Chris had his shoulder operated on earlier this month.  He is recovering very well.  Anyways, hope you all had a wonderful Christmas morning!