Colorado

Well, we just took our annual summer trip to Colorado. Brent's family has a cabin up in Golden Gate Canyon which is just West of Denver and about 12 miles up the mountain from Golden, CO. We love to spend time up there in the summer because of the cooler temps and the carefree days outdoors in the mountains. This year, we got the kids out of their beds and put them in the car at 4:45 in the morning to make our long drive to Colorado. We were in Amarillo by breakfast time, in Raton, NM by lunch and in Colorado Springs by 3pm. We did some grocery shopping and then onto Golden to eat an early dinner with a friend of ours. We then headed up the mountain to the house. We played outside, took walks, played in the woods, went swimming at the REC center, we went fishing at Dude's Pond and we went into Nederland to ride the carousel and eat ice cream in the old train car. We had a great visit with family and then headed home to Texas. Such a fun time and we were so proud of our little road warriors. They are gearing up for our long drive to Florida in August!

Super Hero Cole!

Ragamuffin cousins... Alexis and Chloe playing outside

Cole went down this slide at least 100 times! Over, over and over again!

There he goes!

Working so hard to catch a fish!

Such the fisherman!

Famous Nederland carousel

Ice cream in the train car

Cousins

Happy 3rd Birthday, Chloe!

Chloe- At 3, you LOVE Dora and bubbles, the very most! You love to swim, hate using a float b/c you think that you can swim on your own. Yikes! You are so sweet and adore your brother. You copy everything he says or does which often times gets on his nerves! You weigh 40 pounds and are so tall! You wear a size 9 shoe and as girly as you are... you won't hesitate to get dirty. You love to dress up, wear jewelry, play with dolls and barbies but Dora is your all time favorite. You will eat almost anything and are quite the sleeper lately. You are potty trained and have turned into such a big girl. We could not be prouder of you and we absolutely adore you, sweet thing.

Chloe's first dance recital photos

Our little poodle checking herself out b/f her big moment

Patiently waiting...

Eeeeek... I'm so nervous!

My pretty girl

Yay for our little dancer!

Growing up so fast

I'll love you forever
I'll like you for always
As long as I'm living...
My baby, you'll be.

Just a few pics

Here are a few pics of my babes since it's been a while since I have posted.

Cole getting his monthly backyard haircut from Momma


My pretty boy


My snotty girl


Chloe's class


Easter Egg Hunting









Cole's school Easter party


Cole's school "LOVE" Aubrey


Saying their poem


Finally... the best Easter pic I could get of the two rugrats. Not easy getting a good pic of these two together!

The past few weeks in phone pics

Cole was so happy to have his face painted like Spiderman this weekend at a birthday party we attended.

Chloe wasn't so sure at first but ended up loving her kitty cat face

My munchkins so excited to try on their new, matching swimsuits!

My little dancer before her Friday morning dance class with her little friend, Ansley

Cole the little swimming fish

Oh.... and finally.... Miss Chloe's recent bout with HIVES!

5

Tomorrow, it will have been one month since Cole turned the BIG 5! I have been so horrible at this blog thing. I suppose that the moments that I should document on here have just kept me either too busy or made me too tired and lazy to post about them. Anyway, I just can not believe that my baby is 5 years old. I say this every year, but time really does fly by.

Cole, 5 years ago you came into my life and changed me forever. You and your sister are the two greatest gifts that God will ever give me. I always say this to you and will forever... Being your Momma is my purpose. You and Chloe give my life the meaning it would not have without that place you fill in my life. You have come from this shy little boy into such a confident, outgoing, loud, rowdy, smart and extremely loving 5 year old. You amaze me every single day, my Cole. You have gotten so big and tall that when I pick you up, your feet are not far from dragging the ground. Where did my baby go?! I am so lucky that you like to snuggle and that you love for me to hold you still. I know that one day soon, you won't want those things. That's okay, but I hope that you will always hold a place in your heart for me. All I care about is that you continue to come to know the Lord, that you are happy and that you feel loved... every minute of every day. I look forward to what this year has to bring... Kindergarten, losing your first teeth, learning to read and so much more. I love you to pieces!
Love,
Mommy