The perfect park!

Even though I spent my first 23 years of life in Colorado, I have never lived here as a mom so it's taken a while for me to find the best kid friendly hang outs. Little by little, I am learning them and last week my friend Jennifer introduced us to the perfect park! It has everything from the usual playground equipment to a lake with paddle boats ( and ducks!) , sand boxes and a sprinkler park! We didn't know about the sprinkler park until we got there so we didn't have our suits but do you think that stopped us?

Jennifer's two year old sweetie, Jude, is wondering when the water will come out of this sprinkler:

Samantha and the boys were there, too! This picture is a perfect example of how things go with Brock and Mackenzie- one of them ALWAYS talking!

A picture worth a thousand words

Teaming up with the Torres family

We spent last Saturday with the Torres family. Samantha is one of my oldest and dearest friends. It's a dream come true for us both to be able to watch our kids play together.

Mackenzie and Malachi are just two weeks apart ( Samantha and I hate the same due date but she went first and I went over my due date) Brock will be five in a few days!

James ruined any credibility he may have had by telling Mack he wouldn't squirt her but doing it anyway. It does look like she minded a bit. In fact, she spent the rest of the afternoon playing with him!


Samantha and I have met in 7th grade and her friendship is invaluable to me since then!

Who's that lady?

I took these pics of Mack before church yesterday and, looking back at them, I am shocked by how grown up she looks!

For the birds

Mack has a newfound love for turkeys. My dad has cage full of them and Mackenzie loves to feed them things ( after all, turkeys will eat just about anything) as she chatters away to them. She will do this for as long as you'll let her.

Papa also found a little birds nest and he couldn't wait to show Mack:

Mack learned that you can look at the eggs but you can't touch them. We didn't want the mama to reject them:


Everyone came to take a peek:

Old school

" Back in the day" we three girls ( who lived too far from the rec center to make daily trips) used to " swim" using one of my dad's old horse troughs . As " hill billy" as it was, it was the best way to beat the heat and we spent many summer days lazing away in the water.

With the weather heating up here ( and still being too far from the city for daily drives to the pool), the horse trough pool has resurfaced!

Mack's favorite part was filling up the coffee can and dumping it on those around her:

Some appreciated it more than others:

A sweet face after the fact:


There's only one way to dry off after a dip in the trough:

My little reader

While we were waiting in line at the grocery store, I decided to add a little twist to your usual game of " I Spy". This time, I said a word that could be found on near by objects and asked Mackenzie to find that word. I was surprised when she found the words " home" , " store" and " Sprite". After a few minutes, she said " Mommy! I see the word " pet! " " I looked around and didn't see it. She pointed to the sign that hangs above the aisle and sure enough, there was the word " pet" on the list of the items to found in that aisle. And just to be sure I was ultra proud, she also read the word " baby" on the same list.