Wings Over the Rockies Museum

 We bid on a family season pass to this museum at the school's silent auction and won!  We went one day & loved it so much, we took Ryan a few days later!  They have an area where you can learn/practice morse code & fly a plane with a simulator.

Murph learning morse code

They all LOVED flying the simulator!

Once a month, they have cock-pit demo day, where you can sit in the cock-pit of a few of the planes.  There are science experiments, pedal cars, & you can actually touch the X-Wing that day!

This is the actual x-wing plane in the Star Wars movies.  It is signed by all the cast members!

This was inside the Harrison Ford Theatre.  Little Man's 2 favorite movie series are Star Wars & Indiana Jones!

Definitely a favorite place of ours!

Busy Little Worker Bees

The 4th of July was a bummer.  With all the fires in Colorado, most of the firework shows were cancelled.  Ryan decided to take a few days off & put the kids to work by re-finishing our deck.

A co-worker of Ryan's has a son who needed help with his Eagle Scout Project.  They were painting trees in a beltway so the beavers don't eat them.  The kids enjoyed playing with a frog we found while we there!

Bummer Summer

So far, summer has been kind of a bummer!  We did a few fun things, but the kids have been pretty bored.  Andrea worked until mid June, the kids took golf lessons, we attended a BBQ, spent a weekend with friends, went once to the pool, & then we were homebound for almost 2 weeks!

Murph went to Utah with Aunt Nat & her kids for a week. While she was gone, Andrea got a stomach bug, then Little Man got hand/foot/mouth disease, then the Diva got a fever. During that time Colorado had 12 wildfires, burning over 250,000 acres & burned over 650 homes so the air quality was really bad & people were told to stay indoors. It also made it up to 105 degrees one day-a record for Colorado!! I guess it was a good time to be sick/confined.  We did a lot of baking, playing the computer, movie-watching, playing the Wii, reading, & cleaning/sanitizing the house.  We had a lot of pajama days too.  It has been a crazy June!

 The Diva got her foot stuck in the zipline during a BBQ!

Poor kid!  The disease is highly contagious so we couldn't take him anywhere.

Happy Father's Day!

Here's looking at the best dad ever!

 We love you!

Jimmer!

We went to dinner & a movie with some friends & look who we found when we were coming out of the movie!

Summer Work Party

Ryan's work had their summer picnic at the Rockies Game again this year.  We had the BBQ dinner, then went into the stadium, where they were giving out free Rockies hats.  It was extremely hot so the girls put their hair up in the hat.  We enjoyed the sunset & the game, even though the Rockies lost to the Los Angeles Angels.

Last Day of School

This was the last day of Kindergarten! They watched a slide show from the year's events & then were given candy bar awards.  Little Man made a lot of new friends.

He got the "Snickers" award because he always made everyone snicker!

 This was taken while they were watching the slide show-what a cutie!

 

Andrea made a new friend too!

There was no celebration ceremony from 6th to 7th grade so Murph's teacher found a cap & gown for everyone to have their photo taken in.  A few more years & it will be for real!