Learning to walk

The first weekend in August we drove down to Hobbs, NM for Chris's sister's wedding.  When we got home Jayce decided he was ready to walk.  We got home on Sunday night and Jayce started walking on Monday afternoon.  Here are a couple of videos of him.  He is so quick now and loves to carry stuff when he is walking.

Take Me Out to the Ball Game!

Chris got free tickets to a Sky Sox game.  The Sky Sox are the minor league baseball team for Colorado Springs.  It was lots of fun.  It was a lot more relaxed than a major league game and that was great for us.  Shaden was able to walk around a bit and we could actually see what was happening in the game.  Shaden loved yelling at the players.  "Run Man!"  "Hit the Ball!"  "Good Catch!"  "Yay!"  "Did you see that?!"

A boy and his blanket

I didn't realize how attached Jayce is to his blanket until I tried to wash it today.  I put it in the laundry basket and he went in to our room and took it out.  Then I tried to take it from him and put in the washing machine... Tears, oh the tears!  Gave it back... Happy Baby!

Here is a video of the playing that happened then.

A glance at July 2010

 Chris had most of July off, so we were able to have some little adventures.  

Shaden loves to sit at Chris's desk and use his headset.

Shaden comes into our bathroom and "shaves" just like Daddy.  (Yes that is Chris's shampoo bottle.)

Jayce loved playing in the little pool at my mom's house on Shaden's birthday.

Shaden's birthday was Handy Manny themed.  

He loves the tools and fixes everything.  

The he says "Perfect!" when he's done.

Jayce when he is frustrated.

We took the boys to the Downtown Aquarium in Denver.

We have a picture of Chris standing under this same sign.

Like father like son.

Zoo passes ROCK!  We went to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo again.  

This time with my mom.

Shaden LOVES feeding the giraffes crackers.

We've been going to the swimming pool a bunch.  

Shaden makes me a little nervous when walking around the pool, so it was time we got him a life jacket.

Doesn't he look cute?

Jayce has two top teeth and two bottom teeth now.  

He gets little bits of everything we eat.

We had a goal of emptying our paid storage unit by August 1st 

and part of that was shedding some old papers.

The boys had a ton of fun playing in the sheds.

My sister came down and we took her to Seven Falls.

224 Steps Up and 224 Steps Down.

Shaden playing in the teepee at the bottom. 

He climbed up all the way!

All my boys at the top.

My sister, the soon to be World Traveler.  

She is going on a Semester at Sea Cruise starting in August.

I want to thank Jonathan, Chris's brother, for these pictures.  We had to do some serious shopping and we were lucky enough to have Jonathan and Kate along with us.

June 2010

I really have been trying to take a picture and find something wonderful each day.  The problem now becomes actually posting all these great pics and experiences.  So here is the month of June:

Jayce loves it when Shaden shares his yogurt.

Chris and the boys playing.

We took the boys swimming in the apartment complex pool.  Shaden loved it.  He started to get brave and was sort of jumping from the step to Chris.

We bought new desks.  Here is Chris eating ice cream at his.

Chris bought me a Kindle for Mother's Day and my birthday.  We decided to go with the Kindle over the ipad because I wanted it to read books and the Kindle isn't backlit and the Kindle was half the price of the ipad.  We have no more room in our place for more books and the boys keep taking the books we have on bookshelves out.  I LOVE the Kindle.  Also, Amazon has awesome customer service.  We purchased the Kindle a week before they lowered the price, so I called up and they gave me a refund for the difference with no problem.  I was off the phone within 5 minutes.

Shaden says he is "SO Cool" in his sunglasses.

No paparazzi please.

Chris and I went to the Homecoming Ball for his battalion.  Everyone looked amazing, the food was great, and we had a lot of fun.

Shaden likes to try and pick up Jayce.  Jayce isn't too thrilled with this.

Some interior shots of our new car.  We were picking up some stuff left at my grandparents' house.

Jayce found one of the Mr. Potato Head's mouth pieces.

The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo!  So much fun!  A very interactive zoo.  Shaden fed the giraffes and got to hold a baby kangaroo.  Shaden loved the baby Orangutan.

  Those are some of the fun things that happened during June.