Sweet Strings

Haley had a violin recital last Saturday. She did great! I am really proud of her for all her hard work and she is becoming a super violinist! It's getting easier to listen to her practice! :) Keep it up, Haley!

Root Family Christmas Party '09

Oh what fun it is to ride. . .to grandmother's house we go! We had a great weekend at grandma Root's house this last weekend. It was fun to have the WHOLE family there and see cousins we don't get to see very often. We went ice skating, swimming, had a talent show and enjoyed being together.

The whole family

Nate and Kacie during their talent--singing Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Shrek joined the group in the talent show as well!

The kids had a blast swimming (yes, outdoors) in a friend of Laura's pool. Not to worry, the water is heated naturally by the hot springs that runs below the house--awesome!

Brayden doing a trick!

Ice skating was a lot of fun! Go Brayden!

Kacie wasn't sure if she was going to like it at first, but she warmed up to it after one spin around the rink.

Don't let go of my hand mom!

Uncle David took the kids for rides on the sled behind his 4-wheeler--I think he had as much fun as the kids did!

Kacie and Baylie on grandma's rocking horse. These two have a lot of fun together!

Thanks mom and everyone for a fabulous time!

Up to their ears in Bubbles!

A little bit of bubble bath can be the best "toy" for kids! Nate and Kacie LOVE getting into the tub and filling it to capacity with bubbles--so cute!

Maybe a little too many bubbles!

Friends 4 Ever

I am still messing around with pictures. Haley and Holly are great friends! I am so glad that Haley has found a friend she loves to be with and who is a sweet girl!

Practice Picture!

This picture looked better when I was messing with it but I took this and tried to make it "cool" by using the photo editing website picnik (thanks Brigit its awesome!). Its really fun to play around with all the ways you can "enhance" a pictuer. I am enjoying my new camera and one of these days maybe I will be good at it. :)

Thanksgiving in Denver

Just some highlights of our super fun Thanksgiving in Denver.

Family picture in front of CrackPots--a cute and fun place to paint your own pottery.

Brayden and Bentley

Haley painting her turtle

Nate and Brayden painting

Tyce, Zach and Kacie--the kids had a lot of fun doing this!

Nate with his Build-A-Bear frog. He also got this Rocky hat the the Nuggets game--He only barely stopped wearing it!

Kacie's Build-A-Bear. I am starting to wonder if I made a mistake by putting sound in it. Enough with the Jingle Bell Rock!

Cute cousins coloring to pass some time.

The boys getting ready to go to the Broncos game--a yearly tradition. My boys love it! They're in heaven!

Bingo!

What a great Thanksgiving we had this year! We traveled to Denver to Dan and Brigit's house. They showed us a great time and had a fantastic Thanksgiving feast. Here's some more of the pictures from the trip--

Zach and Tyce sitting down to eat.

cute cousins!

A game of Red Rover!

Driving down we took Preston and Parker Weber. These are some super cute friends! We had a fabulous time and thanks to Dan and Brigit for a great Thanksgiving!!

Kindergarten Thanksgiving Feast

Nate's kindergarten class had a thanksgiving feast this year. I was lucky to be able to help out in the classroom and took this picture while I was there. I just love how his ears are pushed down by his pilgrim hat. I guess I should have waited until he swallowed to take the picture. :)

Zach is 13!

Wow! My first born is 13 years old! I can hardly believe I am that old! :)

The traditional "how old are you?" picture.

Blowing out all those candles--had to take two breaths to get them all out!

Zach and some friends. He had them over for laser tag, pizza and a movie.

I couldn't be more proud of the great young man Zach is growing up to be. We love you!!

Halloween '09

We had a super fun Halloween this year thanks to grandma's great Halloween party! We played some fun games and ate good food. It was really nice to get together with cousins and enjoy the day.

We got wrapped up like mummies in toilet paper.

We bobbed for apples which the kids loved!

We played muscial chairs.

Grandma's little princess--one of them anyway.

My cool trick-or-treaters! I couldn't believe all the candy they got that night! Thanks to dad who took them into town to hit the townhomes so they could get more bang for their buck!

Strike A Pose

My sweet neighbor has a super nice camera and asked if she could "practice" taking pictures with Kacie. These are a few of what she did. I think she did a pretty good job for a beginner--thanks Amber!