A Fun Few Days!

We have had a fun past few days! We have gone to the zoo, played with Elliot, visited the aquarium, and had fun at the downtown Street Faire! Summer is SO great and we are having a blast!!

Looking at the polar bear with Annie, Sean, and Anderson

Sean brought a red wagon to the zoo and Madison and Anderson loved riding in it...they felt like such big kids! Maybe daddy will get Madison one this summer?!?

Sean and Madison waiting patiently for their turn on the train

Banging on the window with Elliot...they thought that this was SO funny!

Swimming in Elliot's little backyard pool

"Hmmm...do I really want to get in there??"

A playdate at the aquarium today with Dru and Emery

Madison loved looking at all the fish! She has not been to the aquarium since last summer when she was 6 months old

A huge green eel just relaxing!

Madison and Emery posing in front of the fish

A big shark that Madison kept saybg "bye bye" to...she was a little freaked out!

A cute little sea horse ;)

The girls loved watching the sting rays swim above us in the tunnel

Mommy and Madison

Miss Dru and Emery...look at how cute Dru is at almost 9 months pregnant!!

A large sea turtle that Madison loved watching

Chillin' in her stroller watching all the fish

Running through the tunnel

During lunch at the aquarium restaurant, we saw the mermaid show. The girls loved watching them swim!

Tonight we went to the downtown Street Faire to hang out and listen to The Samples play. We had a great time with Uncle Peter, Aunt Anna, Chester (Matt's business partner), Katie, Sophie, Colby (Chester's Family), and Drew (our next door neighbor friend).

This picture is Madison's reaction to watching her balloon fly up in the sky! She thought it was SO funny!

Having fun!

Aunt Anna, Uncle Peter, Matt, Madison, and Melanie

Colby was so nice to share his popcorn with Madison

Jumping like a ninja with Uncle Peter

Madison found this random car toy and got it in :)

Colby eating blue Italian ice!

Yes, Madison is on "a leash"! She is a very busy toddler and this is how she stays close to us in busy situations :)

Mommy and Madison

Silly Uncle Peter!

Dancing with Uncle Peter, Colby, and Katie

A New Hat

This special hat is from Uncle Peter and Anna from their South American journey! Madison looked so cute in it and will be sure to wear it a lot come winter! She thought it was funny to wear it one morning though so here are some of her posing in the new hat!

"Cheese!"

So stylish!

"Oh my! Isn't this an amazing hat?!"

P.S. I PROMISE that more Kauai pictures are coming...there are just so many of them and I'm trying to get them better organized before I post them!

Father's Day and Durango

This past weekend, we drove to Durango to visit Grandpa Tim and Grandma Cindy (Matt's parents). Uncle Peter, Aunt Anna, Matt, Madison, Ellie, and I all packed it into the car and headed out Friday night. We had a great time hanging out, visiting, and celebrating Father's Day!

Quality reading on the long drive down to Durango

Madison's new favorite face...a shocked look :)

Uncle Peter asked Madison to dance and at first she was a little unsure :) Check out that face!

Dancing with Uncle Peter on the back deck

"Whoa! This bean bag is really cool"

On our walk along the Animas River we saw a deer just hanging out and it was so close to us too!

Matt, Madison, and Grandma

Family :) (minus Ellie because she was having too much fun swimming in the river behind us with Buck!)

Grandpa Tim and Grandma Cindy

Munching down on pita and hummus...one of Madison's favorites!

A special treat in the car...chocolate ice cream

Touching Buck's nose while he was sleeping

Reading with Grandpa on the Ipad

My favorite moment of the day! Madison and Daddy on Father's day!

Adding hands to the new "oh my" look! Silly Madison and Grandpa!

Madison's Father's Day gift to daddy...a framed picture that she drew for him

A kiss for daddy!

A father-son hug :)

Helping daddy open his gift

Matt's other gifts from me and his parents were a few new running shirts...here Matt is showing off his skills in one of them :)

Love this picture!

Our silly girl! Madison is 18 months old this day! It's going by so fast, but we are loving every minute...well almost every minute, maybe not the few toddler tantrums :)

"WEE!!" Swinging with Uncle Peter after church

Matt, Madison, Grandpa and Uncle Peter

"Choo Choo!!" Madison heard a train while swinging

"Whoa! This is pretty high! When am I going to get down?!"

Happy girl!

In the afternoon on Father's Day, Matt's Uncle Eric, Aunt Cindy, and cousins Ashley, Emma, and Jeremy came to Durango as well! They live in California so we dont get to see them that often :( It was so great to see them even though we had to leave the next morning.

Emma, LOVES Madison and is such a nice little cousin to her! She was so sweet to always want to read and play with her....it was very cute!

Playing blocks with Emma

Cousins...Peter, Jeremy, and Ashley

Emma loving on her cousin

The view on our walk up the "big hill"

Of course the dogs managed to find the water! They had so much fun swimming and playing with sticks!

We made it!! The view from the top of the lake!

Uncle Eric and Peter on the way down the hill

Madison did not go on the walk with us...she stayed back with Grandma, but towards the bottom, they met us

Riding Uncle Peter's bike...he's so much fun!

Ellie and her stick...she carried it the whole way!! And Madison in the background holding Great Uncle Eric's hand

Early Monday morning, Matt took a flight back to Denver so that he could go out to a client, so Anna, Peter, Madison, Ellie, and I drove back that afternoon. Unfortunately, since Matt is always the one who drives I was a little unsure of the directions, and oops...we took a wrong turn! So, our 6 hour drive (thats with no stops at all) turned into 9 hours!! We did stop quite a few times though, but it was still a LONG day in the car. Fortunately, we all had a good time together in the car :) Since Pueblo is not the biggest, nicest town, we had a little problem finding a restaurant to eat at, so we ended up at a Pizza Hut! Since they did not have a inside dining area, we order our pizza and played around outside while waiting. This picture is Anna chasing Madison in the parking lot!

Being silly! It was all we could do after such a long time in the car...it felt so good to stop even if it wasnt the nicest dinner :)

We sure found some silly things to do! Push-ups and squats

Pizza on the run!

This was our dining experience that night...it was pretty funny!

A classy dinner :)