Labor Day Weekend

We had a lot of fun over the long Labor Day weekend! It was so nice to have Daddy home for an extra day! On Saturday, Sean had his first soccer practice. His team is called the "Rowdies". He did a really good job and by the end of practice, he kept saying how tired he was! There are 2 girls on his team and it's funny because the girls at this age appear to be a bit more coordinated than the boys! :-) Sean plays soccer for 6 weeks and has practice and a game every Saturday. We can tell that Sean is already going to be a strong competitor. When the team was taking a run to warm-up, Sean thought he needed to try and win the race!

Derek and I also got away for a couple of hours on Saturday to go to dinner at Red Lobster. We recently received a gift card and a new one just opened up right down the street. We decided to order the "Endless Shrimp" which is basically all you can eat shrimp. Derek ate something like 90 shrimp! I'm surprised he didn't get shellfish poisoning. I ate quite a bit (I didn't count the number of shrimp!) and I felt pretty sick that night. I won't be eating shrimp for a while.

We also went to the zoo this past weekend. It was a lot of fun. Derek doesn't get to go with us very often and Sean was super excited that Daddy got to come! Ryan seemed to enjoy the zoo the most. I've mentioned in previous posts how much he likes animals. We thought that he would be crabby because he woke up really early that morning and didn't get a morning nap. However, we were surprised that he was so excited to see all of the animals that he wasn't crabby at all! He especially loved the gorillas. He stood at the exhibit and watched them for quite a while and just kept laughing and talking. Sean fed some birds and even let one land on his food stick. It rained while we were at the zoo and I got pretty soaked! We managed to find an inside exhibit until the rain stopped.

The picture of Sean in the costume is his new GI Joe costumer for Halloween. All he's been talking about is dressing up as GI Joe! Sorry for the poor picture quality in some of the pictures; not sure why some of them ended up blurry. Don't you just love Sean's cheesy smile in the pictures? I just can't get him to smile naturally!

It's a busy week: Sean starts pre-school, I have a jewelry party on Friday, and it's Sean's birthday party on Saturday! Hope everyone has a great week!

Summer Pictures

Here are several pictures of our some of our recent outings this summer. It's so hard to get good pictures of the boys because they are always on the move! We visited Focus on the Family (a Christian organization which is headquartered here in Colorado Springs) and they have a little kids play area. It was the first time that we took Ryan there since he has been mobile and he was so excited to see the toys and all of the bright colors. He was climbing on everything!

We also had fun with our mom's MOPs group at a local place called "Lil Biggs". It's basically a play room with lots to do for little kids. They have a bouncy house, little kid video games, a huge sandbox, animals to climb on, and several themed rooms. You'll see Sean and his friend Grace playing dress up as Firefighters and Ryan enjoyed the toy room playing with the Thomas the Train toys.

Lastly, we went with some friends this week to a place called ArtsSportsWorld. They have an open gym time for young kids where they can play on the trampolines, jump in the harnesses, and play in the pits of foam blocks. Both boys had a blast!