Valentines Weekend

We started celebrating Valentines on Friday night with Nana and Papa.  Nana and Papa always buy the kids a Build-A-Bear for Valentines, so we headed out to Flatirons to choose the perfect bear to love and add to the collection...

 Ashtyn's favorite part is being on the "puters", She named her bear Snowflake...

After Build-A-Bear we headed to dinner with Nana and Papa, where the kids actually behaved, so we actually enjoyed our night out.  On Saturday, we celebrated Robbie's first birthday.  Can't believe he is already One - that year seemed to just fly by, but that's what I say about everything it seems like.  Happy Birthday Robbie!

After the party, we dropped the kids off at Aunt Pammy's, she has been dying to watch the kids and offered so Matt and I could have a night out.  I took her up on it, and we headed out to Efrains - my favorite - with our best friends Shannon and Kole.  It was so nice to drink margaritas and enjoy a "hot" meal with no chaos.  Thanks to Aunt Pammy - Eli was a handful as usual, but Ashtyn very much enjoyed herself!  Sunday we laid around and did nothing - mostly because both Matt and I felt horrible due to the Walking Pneumonia we both came down with.  On Valentines Day, I was still feeling awful and finally got some medicine, but didn't feel up to a whole lot.  So we let Ashtyn and Eli open their Valentines presents to round out the celebration...

Ashtyn's presents were Little Squishes, an Etch-A-Sketch and a gum ball machine, and Eli got pajamas.  Matt and I got a couple's massage for each other, which we will definitely benefit from after the couple weeks we have had being sick.  We hope everyone enjoyed their Valentines Day - I know the Trujillo's did!

Made with Love

Last Friday we joined Nana to make cookies for Valentines Day!  This is becoming a new craft we do with each holiday - something I think both Ashtyn and Nana look forward too.  Once again, it amazed me how well Ashtyn does decorating the cookies.  So careful not to waste any sprinkles and so careful to place them exactly where she wants them.  She did however this time eat a LOT of frosting, cookie dough and sprinkles, but that's half the fun!

 eating cookie dough...

 eating frosting...

 and a mouthful of sprinkles - YUM...

 Here are the masterpieces...

 what do you see on this sweet baby's mouth?...

 Pink FROSTING!  Eli loved sucking our fingers to get as much frosting as he could...

We ended up giving away plates of our beautiful, handmade cookies. One plate we delivered to Matt at work, another plate for the break room at Matt's work, which I am sure was appreciated and another plate for Butch, Grandma and Emmie.  It's always such a fun activity to do to celebrate the next holiday coming up as well as keeping Ashtyn busy which is always a task at hand.  We will see if Eli shares in the same appreciation for decorating cookies - for now he just played on the table sticking anything sweet in his mouth.  Hope everyone enjoys their special LOVE day - Happy Valentines Day!

Trick-or-Treat

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

We didn't share in much festivities throughout the day, since Ashtyn took a 4 hour long nap - I think she had to recover from the day before.  So once she woke up we headed over to Nana and Papa's for Sunday night dinner and for some "trick-or-treating"around their neighborhood.

 

By now, Ashtyn was a pro at this "Trick-or-Treating" thing.  Uncle Kevers, Matt and I took her around the neighborhood - she had tons of fun getting even more candy!  When she would leave each house she would say "Let's do one more - ok?"  After about 20 minutes though, she said "Ready go home now, my legs are tired from walking" - Oh the things she says sometimes...

After going through the neighborhood we stopped by Aunt Pammie's house to say "Hi" and then over to Grandpa Butch and Sandy's house for one last trick-or-treat!  We couldn't have asked for a better Halloween - it gets more and more fun each year as she gets older and actually enjoys doing these things - minus carving pumpkins! I remember her first Halloween when she was a little chilly pepper - how fast time flies! 

Micky and Minnie

Hot dog, hot dog, hog diggity dog!  For all of you who watch the Disney channel, you know that's the theme song to Mickey Mouse's Playhouse and that is just what my two little munchkins were for Halloween - Mickey and Minnie! Absolutely adorable...

 Although, Ashtyn is dressed as Minnie, she actually wanted to be Mickey - she refused to even dress up unless I referred to her costume as "Mickey" - The 2 year old thing - so this year she was Mickey along with her baby brother!  Nana made Ashtyn's costumes and with a string of luck I found Eli's costume at the Disney store - Mickey Mouse for an infant - PERFECT!  On Saturday, we headed to Longmont to their annual Halloween Parade.  The weather was wonderful and it was perfect for celebrating the holiday with little ones.

Eli was so CUTE in his costume and actually didn't mind being all dressed up.  The ears he wore actually made a "squeak" sound when you pressed them, and Eli would giggle when he heard the sound - it was hilarious!

Nana, Robert, Ariana, Robbie, Bengi, Grandma and Emily joined us for the parade as well.  Robbie was so cute in his tiger costume.  He didn't roar but he would SCREAM really loud...

After the parade was over we walked up and down Main Street "trick or treating" at all the businesses. Ashtyn of course LOVED this part - anything to get candy.  She was a little shy at the beginning, but by the end she was saying "Trick-or-Treat" and "Thank You" to everyone.  She did pretty good filling her little pumpkin bag up with all sorts of goodies.

It was a great day to enjoy a parade and do some trick-or-treating!  My babies looked so cute in their costumes.  I wonder what they will be next year?  Happy Halloween!

Fourth of July

Fourth of July this year was a bit quieter then usual - I am sure it was due to the fact that we had a 3 week old! We typically go camping out at the lake but that was just not going to be all that practical this year - but I guess we have many years ahead of us to enjoy the 4th camping with our kids! On Saturday night we went to the firework display at Vista Ridge in Erie with Grandma Sandy, Butch and Emily- it was Fantastic! I had never been to this show and was quite impressed when it was all done. It was short - but very entertaining and the best part was we had great seats and didn't have to sit in traffic to get them! Ashtyn loved the firework show and talked the entire time - she had a comment for every firework there was! She didn't even mind the sound which I thought for sure might scare her but she would just smile and say "Loud!" Eli didn't mind the fireworks at all - he slept through the entire thing! The evening was wonderful watching the fireworks with the family - next year we just need to bring a cooler of drinks!

On Sunday we headed over to Aunt Pammy's for a BBQ with the other family. It was fun hanging with the family and we had great food as usual. Even though the weekend seemed quiet we were still all exhausted...

We were supposed to head to the lake that night to watch the fireworks all around Boulder and surrounding areas, but with the major thunderstorms our evening was cancelled - so instead we went home and watched all the crazy people who were setting off fireworks in our neighborhood - Ashtyn thought they were very entertaining - I guess next year we may have to invest in some sparklers or something! Happy 4th!