What a Day!

September 11th is a day full of emotion for most Americans.  It was a day of ups and downs for me.  As I was driving through our apartment complex parking lot a girl in a large truck backed out and hit my car.  It upset me, but our car was drivable and she knew it was her fault.  We are currently having our car repaired and have been using a rental for the past week.  That was the big down for the day.
The big up... Chris got FREE tickets to see the Air Force Academy vs. BYU Football game.  It was an Awesome game.  I loved cheering for who ever was on offense.  There was a massive amount of BYU fans and we were sitting right next to one of those sections.  The Army must have gotten a whole section of tickets because everyone right around us was Army.  It was funny.  Whenever the Academy would do the split cheer "AIR--- FORCE"  people around us would say "AR---MY."  The boys had a good time.  Shaden actually fell asleep for about a quarter of the game, but he loved cheering and yelling.  "Touchdown!"  "Run!" "Good Catch!"  "Tackle him!"
Every time there was a break in the action someone who served or was affected by the events of 9-11 was announced and applauded.  The half time show was fun.  The band played one of the songs from the new Star Trek movie, "Enterprising Young Men."  And a HUGE American Flag was unfurled over the field.  Shaden was impressed. "Wow!  Big Flag!"

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.