The Silly Bears

So…by the time this posts….school will have started.  But, right now…I’m so ready for school to start!!  The last week of July, Coda went to a robots class at the community center.  He had a blast.  And I think he’s definitely ready for school to start up.  During the week long class, he got to work with Lego Robots, seriously, could it get any better for Coda.  :)

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Today, I took the boys to the Butterfly Pavilion for Coda’s Apple Tree field trip.  Coda did not want to hold Rosie the spider.  He said, “I only like spiders when I was three.”

This was so cute.  Coda put his socks on his hands and gave holden and ollie a puppet show in the car.  It was so funny.

we love living so close to parks and the library.  we often go for a walk after dinner, here coda is riding his scooter.  zach went snowboarding for the weekend, so the boys and i decided we would walk up to the grocery store and get a lunchable and have a little picnic.  it was a lot of fun.  but…the scooter definitely takes longer then the bike.  ;)

last weekend, some friends of ours from church (Chris, Kristy, Logan, Daelyn, and Riley) went up camping with us.  it was so much fun.  we got there around 1pm on Friday and set up camp.  then we just hung out at the campsite till dinner.  ate a delicious steak dinner and then of course made smores!!  can’t have a camping trip without smores!  :)  sleeping went incredibly well too.  our little family crammed into our “3″ person tent and slept amazing (well, zach was a bit restless).  i was amazed at how well holden did.  it didn’t get too cold, actually some of us were a little on the toasty side.  the next morning we woke up and cooked breaky, ok, actually Chris did (eggs, sausage, hashbrowns… mmmmm….).   Then we went for a little bit of a hike.  It was about 3 miles round trip, and that was definitely more then enough for the kiddos.  Coda fell early on and scraped up his knee (what a surprise!!), but he eventually was ok and once we got to our final destination, he was excited to be there.  The kids played in the little creek for a little bit and we had some snacks before heading back down.  The hike down was much much quicker then the hike up.   After we got back from our hike it started to rain off and on, so me and the boys took a little nap.  It was still raining when I woke up, so I played (taught) some Euchre with the guys.  Then Chris cooked us an awesome chicken dinner and since it was STILL raining off and on, we just sat around and debated on packing up and heading home early.  We all finally decided that we would just pack up rather then sit out in the cold.  And it was a good thing too, because it then started down pouring.  It was quite entertaining to see the guys pack up the tents in the pouring rain, and probably equally entertaining to watch us girls roast marshmallows for the promised smores in the pouring rain!   Well, even though we had to pack up early and head home, we had an awesome time, and I just might go camping again sometime soon.  ;)  Here are some photos from our trip.  Enjoy!

coda loved the flashlights.

how could i not take this photo!!  hahahah.  classic coda.  didn’t matter that there were bathrooms at this campsite, he wanted to pee in the woods.

Last week my dad and I had the chance to fly to breakfast… yes fly. We had bid on a silent auction at coda’s school and won a flight from two guys who had built a plane, that they were going to fly us to breakfast! I know homemade plane doesn’t sound like the best idea, but the plane was super nice, and actually very comfortable. We flew to Greeley airport and had a great breakfast, and then cruised around the front range sightseeing. The coolest part was that they actually let us fly the plane, what a great experience! Here are some pics!