Savannah's 1st Birthday

We had Savannah's FIRST birthday party in the park today.  

It was amazing to get together with all of our friends and celebrate our sweet little Savannah!

We hung butterflies and balloons from the tree, set out food, and brought tons of toys for the kids to play with.  We played everything from bubbles, to football, to bean bags. It was a blast!

 Savannah hanging with her friend Alexa.  They are two weeks apart and Alexa lives four houses down from us.  I'm sure they will have many many many play dates during their childhood. 

Savannah, Chance, and Reese building a sand castle.  

Isla (from daycare) blowing bubbles for Savannah.  

  

Brandi, my friend from high school, raking it in on the candy egg hunt. 

The meeting of the minds...

Selfie with my oldest friend. 

View of the party from afar. 

My typical look on any given day at any given time :) 

 Egg hunting

Chance got a little help from Kevin and Cook 

 only after that they found out that some of the eggs were filled with "Grade A" candy.  

Cook trying to negotiate his way from a tootsie roll to a reese's peanut butter cup...

Max talking to Chance about an aggressive strategy for the egg hunt. 

We ended up attracting tons of kids from the park and meeting lots of new neighbors.  

Who knew how many friends you could make at a community park simply by supplying bubbles, bicycles, and candy...

Savannah's birthday cake before it got smashed!

She was very confused by all of the singing!

But she sure did enjoy the cake!

 Happy Birthday sweet Savannah!

 Your laughter is infectious and we adore the quiet confidence in your eyes.  

We've loved you since before you were born and nothing that you could ever be, say, or do will EVER change that!

Mike and Carol Visit

We had a wonderful visit with Max's parents, Mike and Carol, last weekend.  

We got to spend a lot of quality time with them and we hope that they enjoyed their time.  

Mike and Carol flew in on Friday so we just stayed in to relax.  Max made us an amazing steak dinner and we cheered on our teams in the March Madness tournament.  

We headed out on Saturday to check out the best of Colorado food and beer festival.  It turned out to be more of a giant convention center filled with arts and crafts.  

They did have bounce houses and a slide and kettle corn though so Chance thought it was great :)

After the Bite of Colorado Festival we headed back down to our neighborhood to try out the new brewery. 

It has a great atmosphere, very low key, and very family friendly.  

We didn't know what was good, so we had to get a mini sample and try them all.  

Our trip to the brewery ended abruptly when Savannah decided that she really did not feel well.  We called it a day, headed home, and ended up ordering a pizza and watching more basketball. 

I started out Sunday at the park with the kids again. 

We later ventured out to Heritage Square to try the Alpine Slide only to find out that it was not yet open for the season.  We had to take a detour and ended up at Dave and Buster's to round out our weekend of basketball.  

We finished the day at the park before calling it a night and making dinner at home again.  

We had a wonderful time with Mike and Carol and we are so glad that they were able to come and spend some time with Chance and Savannah.  We can't wait to see them again in May!

Swings, parties, parades, and festivals

March is flying by!

Here is a run down of our past few weekends. 

We have been patiently awaiting springs arrival with almost daily trips to the playground.  

These kids can not get enough of the park and the swings!

We all enjoy our walks  around the park together. 

Chance is getting tall.  He was so proud of himself for making this tower with all of his blocks.  The therapist in me can't help but notice that he might be a little OCD :)

It's not his fault though.  He gets it from both of his parents in a lot of different ways.  

We also attended our first birthday party with some new friends that we are making in our neighborhood.  

They had a music instructor at the party who was great with the kids and parents alike.  

Chance and Savannah both loved the scarves and the peek a boo songs. 

Peek -A-

Boo

It was precious to watch all of the babies interact.  

We celebrated St. Patrick's Day by taking the train downtown to see the parade. 

It was really crowded, but we all had a good time. 

The weather was freezing though so we came home early and  finished some errands around the house before heading to the Paddy's on Pearl festival a few blocks from our home.  

Max and I were shocked that both of the kids feel asleep in the Double BOB on the short walk over and slept long enough for us to drink some green beer, and dance along to some Irish jigs. 

We finished the night off by watching BRAVE to stick with our Irish theme.

It's been a great couple of weeks.     

Park Days

Winter has been a little confused this season.  It can't decide if it should be snowy and warm or sunny and cold. 

We've just decided to throw on our coats and head to the parks no matter what!

 

 

Max has really been enjoying playing with the kids at Ruby Park.  I think he is just so happy to be training his future ski buddy. 

 

Savannah is so over the snow.  She decided to nap because I wouldn't let her crawl around and get wet.

 

At least the snow melts quickly so that we can have impromptu mornings at the park.

Savannah is getting really courageous and likes to crawl up the side of the slide.

Chance just follows her everywhere on the playground and repeatedly says, "Be so careful little baby."

We can't wait for spring!