Random Pics from January/ February 2014

Silly cute boy!



We had fun at the Rec Center pool!

AJ with Paige and her sister, Hailey for Spirit Night at Noodles and Company

Crazy hair crazy dress day at school!

He kept it this way all day long!

Ski day with his buddy Daxie!

BRONCO PARTY!



I love that he skis this way.. trying to gain some speed!

Representing!

He was Reader of the Week. He got to read a book to the class and invited me to read too! It was so fun!

The class celebrated their 100th day of class!

This is how they read together.. :)

It was COLD! But he rocked it!

My Valentine!

Heart Breaker

With his gal, Paige :)

Valentine Party fun!

Sking this weekend in Copper mountain for Valentines!

TONS of ski videos

We have been skiing A LOT this season already! I can't tell you how happy it makes me that both AJ and Jason look forward to going each weekend. In fact, one time we skied on Saturday, Jason went to the Bronco game on Sunday and while there texted me to see if I wanted to go skiing the following weekend! I am beyond thrilled by this! And not to mention, Jason is really doing well! He took 3 lessons and is now really comfortable on green runs and doing some blues too! We've gone to Loveland a few times and also have gone to Copper Mountain a couple times with friends. When we go there, we get a hotel room and it's so fun! We get up REALLY early (like 5:30.. that's not the fun part), get to the mountain around 8:30, have breakfast, then ski with friends all day. Stop for lunch and then back at it again till about 4. We go back to our hotel room, shower, and head down to the Old Chicago restaurant and have drinks and dinner. Then we pass out and go home Sunday morning. It works out so well because we miss the traffic. The days we don't stay the night, we have to leave by about 2pm to miss the traffic. This way, we get more time on the mountain! It's a blast! The ONLY challenge is getting Jason into the car and on the road on time :) AJ isn't a problem. The running joke is that I wake him up by saying, "AJ time to wake up! You're Ipad is charged at 100%" and he jumps up! haha Here are a bunch of videos from our ski trips. They go in order from the past to the present so you can see how much better these guys are getting!





Here is Jason skiing- doing great!


Matt came to visit and we all skied together. They rocked it!


At Copper Mountain, AJ did the Terrain Park- excuse my loud yelling!


AJ with his friend Dax at LUV.


AJ at Copper

AJ's First Limo Ride!

Our family was so fortunate to be invited to go in a LIMO with friends to dinner and see Christmas lights! AJ has never been in one before (Why would he? He's 5!), and was so excited! He knew what a limo was, but never seen the inside or anything.

Our friends, The Farrells invited us and another family, The Merrills to ride together to dinner and then drive around town and look at lights. It was pretty neat to see AJ's face when the limo arrived at our house to pick us up!

The kids had such a fun time, laughing, singing and chatting away in the limo. Juliana was so sweet and made each kid their own plastic cup with their names on it and brought them hot chocolate. She also made cute wine glasses for the gals. It was so fun!

Here's some pics:

Visit From Grandma!

A few weeks ago we had a really fun visit from Grandma! I have to say, I was very happy to see her and spend time with her, but I was also very excited to get some adult time while she got to spend quality time with AJ!

For Jason's birthday (in October), I got him a night away in Denver. We had to plan it for December when my mom was in town, so she could watch AJ. It worked out perfectly!

Mom flew in on Thursday night, and on Friday AJ was off school so they got to hang all day. Then, Saturday we hung around during the day and that afternoon Jason and I took off for a whirlwind 30 hour date! We checked in at the Grand Hyatt in Denver. Had a few drinks and then met up with some friends from Jason's work. It was the COLDEST weekend we've had so far this year- in the negatives for some of it- so we bundled up and went to the Parade of Lights. Then, we all went to this amazing restaurant in Denver called Ocean Prime. Oh. My. Goodness. The food was amazing! Our dinner reservation wasnt' until 8:15 so it was a late night, but amazing! Lot's of laughs and good conversation. The next day we woke up (at 9am!!!) and ordered room service, then got ready for the Bronco's game. We met up with some other friends at the stadium and had lunch and some more cocktails (we had to get our bodies warm!). The game was SO fun and we won!

After the game, around 6pm, we got home and found out that AJ and mom had a wonderful time together too. They made a gingerbread house, went to see Frozen and AJ "taught" my mom how to play Ipad for hours... ha! I am so thankful that my mom was here to hang with AJ and that she allowed us to have this wonderful adult time together. It was SO fun!

Here are some pics:

All bundled up!

Parade of Lights!

The view from our room... DARN COLD!

Go Broncos!

Grandma and AJ!

First Ski Day of the 2013/1014 Season!

We all headed up to Loveland the day after Thanksgiving for our first day on the slopes. It was SO FUN! The snow was great (as opposed to last year this time when it was terrible). AJ took a 90 minute private lesson with Jungle Jim and Jason took an all day lesson. They both loved it! I was sooo impressed with how quickly AJ picked it right back up. He rocked it! And I was THRILLED to hear that Jason loved his lesson and wants to go back. YEAH!

 

 

I LOVE this face!

Happy Birthday Daddy & Halloween!

Wednesday was Jason's 38th birthday! He had a really good day and loved hearing from all his friends and family. That night, I organized all of our neighbors to go out to dinner. In all, there were 16 of us. It was fun!

 

Opening presents

Happy birthday Bronco cake!

Here are some Halloween pictures. What a FUN day! AJ got to wear his costume to school all day. He was an army man! They had a parade and party and I was so happy to be able to surprise him and go. He asked me in the morning if I could go, and I told him honestly, no. I thought I wouldn't be able to leave work. But I got lucky!

That night, we had all our neighbors over for dinner- and set up a table in the garage with 4 houses full of candy. We had the house to go to! Jason and I took turns taking AJ out trick or treating. This year he was REALLY into it. Running with his buddies from house to house, with no fear at all. I loved watching him :)



My Army Man!

This is AJ's WONDERFUL teacher, Mrs. Hayden. She is amazing! We love her :)

AJ with his buddies

With his adorable friend, Bella

One of his best buddies, Tyler

And this is Paige.. His current "girlfriend". She's adorable and so sweet

That night, he decided to change out of his Army costume and into Spiderman

Love these two :)

Anderson Farms! 2013

We had another fun time at Anderson Farms last weekend! I think this may have been our 4th year? I'm not sure, but I am sure that if you want to go back thru this blog you'll be able to figure it out! I should do that, huh?

 

Anyway- it was a cold day, as you can see! It was fun tho!

 

 

 

Barrel Car rides are always fun!

This was FUN!!! And a great workout too!

This is his "scared" face.. haha!

Love that smile

Hay ride with Dad!

Warming up with hot chocolate while searching for the perfect pumpkin!

 

We found 4...