Happy Anniversary and New Year!

 For our sixth anniversary we went to eat at Texas Roadhouse.  As always, the prime rib was to die for.  The boys loved the steak fries and rolls and were both happy as a clam to not get left with a sitter :)

Notice the two of them glued to the tv?

I may have eaten 16 oz of beef in one sitting.  Not sure if Robert was impressed or disgusted....

For New Years Eve, we invited some friends over to hang out, eat food, and let the kids play.

Not wasting any spilled chocolate milk.

These and the confetti poppers were a total hit.

Andrew and Alex with their buddy, Jackson.

We watched fireworks out our bedroom window and Andrew kept asking us to turn them on again.  Alex crashed and Andrew was pretty sure he was going to sleep in that spot.  Look at that grin!

On New Year's Day we went to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.  Andrew brought the stroller for his little baby horse and was very diligent about pushing it and keeping track of it!

Mr. Conductor!  (from Dinosaur train)  Andrew informed me that it was a Theropod and I took his word for it.  Dr. Scott the paleontologist works at this museum so whenever we are there we look through the glass of the work area to see if he's there.  Still no Dr. Scott sightings.   

Quiet Book

Here are some pictures of Alex's Christmas present.  Alex is indifferent to it but Andrew loves playing with it.  Go figure :)

The shapes are attached to ribbon and can be lifted off

The football slides along the string into the goal, sliding beads for counting

tic tac toe

flaps that lift and have sports equipment under them, a swimmer that moves up and down the lane with lane lines on the sides

a net with a basketball and the square is basketball textured.  I had one page left and was out of ideas/time

I hope I don't have any more "great ideas" for a while.  This one was waaaay too time consuming!

FOR SALE!

 Our house is completely clean for the first time since we moved in September of 2012 so I thought I should document it :)

Christmas!!

At our ward Christmas party

Doing some Christmas shopping and stalking the cute boys at the mall

Visiting Santa...at the skating rink!

Walking around the outdoor mall after seeing santa

Christmas goodies for our neighbors. 

Looking at Christmas lights

lights on a house in our neighborhood choreographed to music

Eating lunch at Chipotle in Pueblo on our way to the Valley last week.  Alex felt so grown up to have a juice box of his very own.  I love that cute face!!!

Playing with play dough with cousins

watching Polar Express with more cousins!

Socks from grandma.  Alex was proud to have is own packge

Socks!  Which have trucks on them so he wears 2 to 3 pairs at a time because he can't decide which ones he likes best

CHRISTMAS EVE

We went to a friend's house for dinner then came home and the boys opened presents from mom and dad

Alex got a quiet book that I made for him

and Andrew got cowboy boots and his hat that he earned for sleeping in his big boy bed.  He keeps running around the house telling me that he's a cowboy :)

CHRISTMAS MORNING

Santa came and brought the boys airplanes!  Andrew got Dusty Crophopper with a green propeller and Alex got a "little tiny Dusty cuz he's a little tiny guy" haha that's according to Andrew :)

After presents and breakfast we went to the movie theater and watched Frozen.  It was so good!  I thought for sure the theater would be empty but apparently going to the movies at 10 am on Christmas isn't a novel idea.  Who knew!  It's been a fun Christmas!  We are going to enjoy the sunshine and go for a walk around the pond and then to dinner at a friends house.

Merry Christmas!

Well, I think this is the first Christmas when I have been able to go play at the park wearing only a jacket.  It was such a beautiful day today!

Notice Dusty on the front of his bike :)

PwC Christmas Party

Robert's company Christmas party was Saturday, December 14, at the Bronco's (Sports Authority) Stadium.  It was nice to finally know some people there so it wasn't quite so intimidating.  We sat at the BYU table (mormons seem to be able to find eachother) so the company was good and the food was delicious!  We went on a tour of the stadium again this year and had a good time!

We watched our friends' baby Friday night, then they watched the boys Saturday night.  I think they got the short end of the stick :)  The boys were so fascinated by the tiny person wearing pink.  

Andrew took a picture of us before we left for the party :)