Celebrating Uncle Bob!

Rob came back to town on Memorial Weekend so Ariana surprised him with a birthday party at this awesome park in Thornton!  He was totally surprised and enjoyed a long, HOT afternoon celebrating his 34th birthday with the family and some friends!

 The park is awesome...it has this huge play ground, water fountains, basketball hoops, skate park, carousel and then a lake with paddle boats!  The fun to be had is endless...

 Eli of course made a beeline for the fountains and didn't leave them all day - except to eat a cupcake, which I still wonder how many he had...

 All the kids, except for Eli, loved riding on the Carousel!

 and playing on the playground!

Mostly everyone went on the paddle boats - I however did not!

 I prefer boats with power and paddling around a lake in heat didn't sound much fun to me...but the people that went seemed to have a good time!

 Matt took the day off to spend with his brother! 

How sweet is he... and I sure appreciated it!

 Do you see the remnants of cupcake on his face...?

The party was great and so fun to spend so much time with family!

That evening we headed to the Rio in Denver to really celebrate Uncle Bob's birthday!

We had so much fun being just the six of us kids again! 

I can't even tell you the last time we all went out together - way before we all had kids, that's for sure!  We had a great night drinking and then headed to the Cowboy bar to end the night getting our groove on - or at least trying to!

I LOVE having Rob and Ariana back in Colorado, but it's quickly coming to an end!

I wish they didn't have to move, and I am so SAD to see them go again...

Hopefully their time on the East Coast will be short lived, but if not we will just have to make tons of road trips and phone calls to keep in touch!

I love you Uncle Bob and Ariana - maybe you should rethink this whole moving to Maryland thing?

Just kidding - I am kind-of-happy for you!

But not really...



Family Pictures - Round 2

FAMILY PICTURES!

You know us Trujillo's LOVE pictures and while Rob and Ariana are in town we just had to do it!  Rob has recently gotten into photography and took all these amazing pictures!  He did great - it is not easy to take a "good" picture of six kids - three of which don't sit still EVER!

So I was very impressed with what he managed to snap of them...

 This one is my favorite of the kids! 

Of course they are not all looking, that's pretty much impossible, but it's still so cute...

 The FAM!  We are pretty good looking if you ask me...

 This picture was my absolute favorite! 

How lucky are they to have such beautiful grandbabies!

 The only time Eli would sit and stay still was when we gave them all suckers...he sat there in that same spot until the entire sucker was gone!

 That was me trying to be a model and a little bit sexy...

HAHAHA!

Sandy loves pictures from behind, so we took this one of us walking away!

We have definitely multiplied throughout the years, but its AWESOME to have such a big family!

 Until next year...

Class of 2026!

 Ashtyn GRADUATED!

Well only from Kinder Prep, but its still a pretty big deal...

I have been super impressed with the Preschool Program at Lafayette Rec Center and the way they celebrated Ashtyn's last day was the icing on the cake.  They hosted graduation at Waneka Lake and had a BIG party with all 5 classes of Kinder Prep!  It was a great morning and a little bit chilly  celebrating such an awesome accomplishment with our friends and family!

 Ashtyn and her BFFS - Sienna and Chloe (Not sure who the girl is next to Chloe...)

Ashtyn has been more then blessed with the friends she has met over the past couple years.  Such laid back, low drama girls and a couple of sweet boys - I can only hope we have the same luck when we move into kindergarten!

 Of course Auntie Em came to see her graduate before her high school finals!  ...and Grandma Sandy, Nana and Daddy made the party too!

 Adam also attends Kinder Prep at Lafayette Rec but he's in a different class then Ashtyn.  So we got to see him graduate too and it was so fun to see how Adam, Ashtyn and their group of friends interact...pretty darn CUTE!

 Look at the grin on Adam's face...

 The ceremony was the cutest thing ever and YES I had tears welled up in my eyes the entire time! They of course wore little gowns and hand made caps by them and when the teachers would call their names they would slide down to the bottom to receive their diploma and some gold fish!

It was absolutely adorable! I am thinking it was more for the parents then anything, because the kids could care less - but I sure appreciated it!

 We cheered for all her classmates and I of course cheered louder for Ashtyn's friends...

like Christian!

and BFF Sienna!

 Ashtyn is not a "center-of-attention" kinda girl, so she was pretty shy when it was her turn, but still followed through with it - so proud of my baby girl!

 Ashtyn's Kinder Prep Class - Class of 2026!

 Lucas - our favorite!

 How cute is that!  Little Cap and Gown...I wish we could have kept the gown, but the cap will forever be in her scrapbook!

 We watched Adam graduate with his class too! 

He didn't enjoy the ceremony part either...it will be interesting to see what they are like twelve years from now when they graduate from High School!

 

 After the ceremony they all enjoyed cake pops and fruit provided by the teachers!

Ashtyn had like five...!

 Here are the four LOVE birds! 

While I was taking this picture Ms. Sue came over and said to me...

 "Those four are the cutest kids.  They hung out all year long together and truly looked out for each other and were always playing chase at recess!"

Its a shame they will all go to different schools next year for Kindergarten, but hopefully we can have play dates throughout the summer!

 Ms. Sue and Ms. Erin were awesome teachers!

Ashtyn learned so much this year and I am forever grateful for their dedication to teaching little ones - it can't be easy (I know I couldn't do it)!

Ashtyn was so engaged this year and would come home and ask a million questions or tell me a million facts about a spider for example, play rhyming and matching games constantly, wanting to read every sign she came across and constantly wanting to create some type craft or science experiment.  She truly soaked in every minute of what she learned at school and the past year has definitely prepared her for Kindergarten next year! 

Thank you again Ms. Sue and Ms. Erin - you started Ashtyn's experience in school on a very positive note and I think it will pave way to her being very successful - she loves to learn!

Mommy and Daddy are so proud of you Ashtyn!

You have totally impressed us the past couple years and we are so excited to see what you will do when you start the big leagues! 

Now its off to the pool and the lake to soak in as much of summertime as we can before we drop you off at Kindergarten!