A Hodge Podge Posting

Well time has once again gotten away from me and I find myself needing to blog about several things that we have done in the past month. The beginning of March brough upon a much needed weekend getaway for the family. Kaitlyn's teacher owns a condo up in Winter Park and she was nice enough to let our family rent it for a weekend in March. Coincidently, my mom was going to be up in Winter Park also, with a youth ski trip that she was helping with for her church. So our adventure began on a Friday night. We made it up the Berthoud Pass and arrived at our condo and kicked back for a relaxing evening. The next morning, we headed to the nearest grocery store and picked up doughnuts for the kids to eat in the car while we took a short drive around the mountains. Needless to say, we used a whole pack of wet wipes after the breakfast feast was complete.

We then went downtown Winter Park and shopped in the stores.

Later that day we met my mom at the ski resort. Kysen walked the whole time.....and no nap! WE had a nice visit with my mom and then the snow began to fall, and fall, and fall and we decided we should head back to the condo.


As if this was not enough, Kaitlyn begged me to take her swimming in the condo pool...still no nap for Kysen. About 7:15 that evening, Kysen FINALLY crashed and so did Kaitlyn. They both got to sleep in bunk beds so they thought they were pretty special. WE crashed soon after.


The next fun event we had was a St. Patty's Day Feast at our house with some of our neighbors. I made Irish Stout Stew, Irish Soda Bread, Green Cupcakes, Green Punch, and then all the neighbors brought dishes to share also. We all wore green and we bought all of the female guests green tiaras and all the male guests green hats. We had so much fun. Here are a few pictures of that event. You would think this was Kysen's first birthday cake since most of the frosting found his hands and his face and NOT his mouth.




Lastly, I was tired of spending $15 every three weeks to get Kysen's hair cut. His hair grows super duper fast. So instead, I invested in some shears. I figured I would be able to do the "Fade" thing on his hair, but it was too out of control, so he got a buzz cut. It turned out pretty cute, and hey we will save $15 dollars each time! Those shears will be paid for in no time at all!

Other than that, we are just enjoying the spring like weather that we have had. WE made a trip to Denver to see some family the other weekend and ended up buying a Garmin GPS so we can get around without arguing about directions.....great investment. April 8th will bring a big 7th birthday in our house. Kaitlyn will turn 7......wow how time flies. Seems like just yesterday she was born. I will post pictures of that when the events take place.