Friends, Playgrounds, and Fantasy Football

This past weekend was busy and fun. 
We started off the weekend with another BBQ in our dirt pit!

Tina was back in Denver for work and wanted a house party to be with everyone because she is 15 weeks pregnant! Everyone was stoked about Drew and Tina's news...except Savannah in this picture apparently.

 

We gladly hosted the Denver village at our house on Friday.   It was amazing to have all of the girls back together. We drank, laughed, and talked the night away.  It was so  much fun!
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On Saturday morning our little man was up and at em.  I had promised him a trip to feed the ducks the night before...so away to the Wash Park lake we walked.  

Max laughed at me in the pantry before we left the house and said that there was no way that we would need that many crackers.  

Two minutes into Chance's duck feeding...he apologized and thought that we might not have packed enough.  What can we say?  The boy lives to feed the ducks.  It's almost like every duck in the park knows him now.  They literally fly across the pond when they see him....it's odd...but Chance loves it!

After the lake it was off to the playground.
Poor Savannah is always in my arms and gets 1/10 of the photo takes....
Here's my attempt at trying to keep it even.

I can hardly wait for Chance's teenage years, given how excited he continues to be about the danger slide :/

Even Savannah seems concerned about this fearless behavior!

Fearless...I tell you!!!!

After the playground on Saturday we headed out to Parker, a suburb of Denver, to help one of Max's co-workers move.
Max has developed a wonderful relationship with one of his co-worker's named, Eric, at Wallace Engineering.  Max often comes home and tells me stories about Eric, his wife, and their son Jake. I know that Max really loves and respects Eric and so for that reason alone...I thought that we should be there to help them move.

Did I also mention that Eric just had surgery on his collar bone and both wrists due to a mountain biking injury? Hmmm.... I wonder who told him he should take his son mountain biking in Crested Butte?
Let me just say...WE NEEDED TO HELP ERIC MOVE!

We ended up spending the majority of Saturday with Eric and his family.  Chance was amazing and wanted to help carry e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g
Eric's mother, Omi, had been in child care for 30+ years and did not set Savannah down from the moment we arrived.  It was a win win for everyone!

Saturday night, Max watched the kids for a few hours and I went to a salon celebration for my friend Nellie.  
Nellie was Megan's "daughter" on the Denver Nuggets dance team and she has been keeping my hair the perfect shade of blonde since 2008.
The celebration was for Nellie's one year of being in business on her own and for her new salon. I had a blast on Saturday night just talking with Meg and Nellie. 

I did get this picture of Chance while I was out in a text.  It was entitled "they're gone" ....I now know that Cook came by to spend the night and felt it was time to teach Chance how to properly eat Pringles.



On Sunday, we were off early to meet my friend Amy at the "Centennial Splash Park".  Amy  failed to mention that this park was the epicenter of all things fun for a twoandahalfyearold!!!!

Seriously!!

This park was e.p.i.c and we will be back! 

 

Chance loved playing in the water and in the park. 

 

We finished the weekend with a fantasy football party for our village at the Wash Park Tavern.
It was an absolutely perfect weekend. 

 

Gubbels Visits

We've managed to settle into a fairly regular and relaxing routine lately. 

Friday nights are our family nights. 
I usually cook a nice dinner and Max watches the kids while I cook. 
Some guys have it rough...


Saturday's have become our Wash Park days.  We usually do chores around the house, run errands, and then walk to the park to meet some of our friends for volleyball. 
We've fallen into such a routine that we even know exactly when to start walking to the park so that both babies will sleep in the stroller long enough for us both to play a game of volleyball!

After Chance wakes up from his nap, he immediately wants to go to the playground. 
He had asked me earlier in the day to go to the "danger" slide, but I had no idea what he was talking about. When we got to the Wash Park playground, he jumped out of the stroller and ran up the steps. 

He flew down the slide and then stood up and pointed at it exclaiming "danger slide"

Geez....I guess! It really does kind of sling shot the kids out at the bottom.  It was actually kind of entertaining to watch after Chance pointed it out. 

After the playground I walked around the park with the kids and waited for the arrival of our old friend Jerad Gubbels.  He was coming into town from Jackson Hole Wyoming for the night and wanted to meet Savannah and spend some time with us.

By the time we made it around the lake, Gubbels had arrived and the volleyball games had come to an end for the day.

We ended up having everyone over for a BBQ in the back yard. 
(Party in the back yard dirt pit...again)!

Cook entertained Chance for hours by building him a car ramp.

and
everyone loved holding Savannah.  

It was great to see everyone and spend a relaxing evening with great friends. 

Our Sunday was quiet and mostly routine again. 
We spent the moring going for coffee, the farmer's market, and then to the playground. 

 

We all took a quick nap and then worked together into the evening on the electrical portion of our garage.
It was a quick easy and relaxing weekend.
I can't believe how quickly the summer is passing by. 

 

Army crawl

Savannah army crawled a few feet over to me this morning. I was shocked! She just learned to roll over last week. I feel like I need a pause button. Time is moving too fast!

I hope you're ready for loads of action shots because we now have two littles on the constant move. 

I guess the bright side of this is that I won't need to find gym time to make sure that I get a daily workout...

A day at the zoo - Take II

This past week Ms. Barb asked me if I would help her take the kids to the zoo one last time before summer ended.  I had to rearrange my schedule a little bit, but I am so glad that I was able to spend the day with Chance, Savannah, Isla and Ms. Barb.

 We met Ms. Barb at her daycare in the morning and then together we packed up lunches and snacks for all of the kids and then headed off to the zoo.
We were much better prepared this time and everything went so smoothly.  

The zoo was not packed at all and we were able to get really close to so many of the animals.

Savannah was super observant all day.  I think she loved being out and about. 

It seemed like every animal was awake and ready to entertain.  

We made it half way around the zoo before lunch time and decided to stop at the carousel to reward the kids for being so well behaved.

We had a picnic lunch in the park next to the carousel.  The weather was perfect and it was so relaxing.
It was amazing to see Chance in his element with his friend Isla and Ms. Barb.
These kids LOVE each other and Ms. Barb really does treat them like her own.
We are so lucky to have found someone who takes such great care of our babies while we are at work!
I just adore these pictures of the kids loving up on Ms. Barb. 

Savannah lounged in the shade for the entire lunch.  She was awake for the entire day and seemed content to just be out with us.

Chance and Isla ran and ran and played and played.
It was adorable.  They are buddies for sure!

 

 

 

 

 

 

After lunch we wrapped up the afternoon by looking for rabbits,

yelling at the penguins to jump in the water,

 and playing in the Elephant Passage.  

We managed to make it around the entire zoo with three kids under three, zero meltdowns,and eight diaper changes,but who's counting?
I guess all that adds up to a successful day at the zoo.
It sure beat spending the day at work!