Next stop: Colorado

After saying our goodbye's in California, it was off to Colorado to visit friends and check on our house that we are renting out. We started off our visit with a picnic in Golden at a nice park. One of our friends has a little boy that is a few days older than Keenan, another couple has a little boy that is five months younger and another couple is expecting in July! It was fun to watch the three little boys running around together. It kind of made me sad that we still didn't live in Colorado with all of our friends having babies at the same time.

Here's Eric and Keenan looking at the ducks.

Chad on swing pusher duty with all three boys.

Keenan and Davis hugging.

Kelly and I with our little boys.


We went and checked out our house, I was mentally preparing for the worst... You never know with renters! The inside of our house was packed full of stuff, we think a few more people are living there then we originally thought but, it was clean and looked cared for. The lawn on the other hand, looked like a jungle! All of our (mostly Eric's) hard work keeping the lawn and the landscaping looking nice was mostly gone. No flowers in any of the flower beds, weeds in all the landscaping rocks, beer bottles in the mega high grass... sigh. At least the inside of the house looks nice. We also got to visit with some of our old neighbors, which was nice.

We stayed with my friend Lindsey and her family which was nice. They have 2 young girls so there was plenty of toys for Keenan. Somehow I managed to not get any pictures of her two little girls.

Eric went golfing with his friends so Lindsey and I took the kids to a park and met up with my friend Kristen and her little boy Evan. Once again, no pictures of Lindsey's girls but here's a picture of Keenan and Evan climbing.
Since Eric was golfing Lindsey and I took the kids to a Sushi bar and met up with her husband. The kids were good for a few minutes then they all turned to crazed little hellions. We couldn't eat fast enough to get out of there. As soon as we got to the car I realized I forgot my "to go" bag. Without thinking I exclaimed "Sh!t" to which Keenan immediately repeated it, Lindsey's four year old Reagan then pipes up loudly "I just chugged a whole beer!" (she had a root beer that was in a brown bottle) Neither Lindsey or I could help it, we both busted out laughing. At least there was some humor in our evening!

Our last night in Denver we met up with Eric's brother and his two little girls at Chuck E Cheese's. Keenan was immediately in Heaven. Big, ride able auto's everywhere! He quickly figured out that you needed "money" to stick in the slots to make the rides go and kept requesting more.

The three cousins. Maci, Keenan and Mia. I think Mia was the only one happy about getting the picture taken.

Yeah! Spring is here!

The weather has been absolutely beautiful here lately! The sun is out, the tulips are popping out, things are starting to turn green, and all the street cats seem to be waddling around with big fat bellies... Not surprising but a lot of the the kids in the park are still dressed for a blizzard and I get quite a few raised eyebrows at Keenan unpreparedness (no hat, no snowsuit, small sweatshirt hoodie for a jacket) should that blizzard strike us unsuspectingly while we are at the park.

We have been enjoying the much needing sunshine and spending most of Keenan's waking hours at the park which makes for one grimy sand covered kid. Keenan favorite at the park seems to be the slides, followed by making sand angels. Of course, everywhere we go we have to bring at least one little auto.
On Sunday while at the park we ran into one of my friends from play group and her son. Funny story: My friend was married the day before Eric and I and their son was also born 9 months after the "I do's" were said which makes him born one day before Keenan. Here's the two honeymoon babies playing together... well kind of fighting over the ball.
Yesterday at the park Keenan must of felt like it was snack time. He spotting a man opening up a fresh bag of potato chips, ran over, stuck his hand in the bag and helped himself. Kind of embarrassing! At least the guy thought it was funny. I guess I'll should start having those talks about not taking candy (food) from strangers...

The other day there was that deafening silence in the house that meant Keenan was busy doing something... At least it was a washable bathtub crayon!

Bareback riding...