Hanging Lake

Barry and I loaded the twins up in their backpacks and ventured up Glenwood Canyon in Colorado. It was a pretty good hike which ends at a beautiful place called Hanging Lake. There is a small "lake" which resembles a large pond, with multiple waterfalls that was absolutely georgeous! There are scenic pictures of the waterfalls on my photography blog.

All this green stuff

I put the twins on grandpa's grass of which they were a little aprehensive. They were lifting up their legs and arms, trying to make the least amount of contact with the grass. After they inspected it and determined that the grass was harmless, they were giggling and playing in it. When they figured out that you can pick it out of the ground, they went into discovery mode.

They were facinated with the grass and kept picking it, inspecting it, throwing it and yes, even eating it!

Boy Band

Anytime Barry breaks out the guitar the boys, wherever they are, stop what they're doing and run to watch and help dad play.
Lil' groupies!
Koen helping dad tune the guitar. What a helper.
One of dad's biggest fans (#1 being me, of course!). Koen is very in tune with his musical senses. We may possibly be looking at a future musician!

Dinosaur Museum

We visited the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point of which we all had a great time. This is our little group shot. The twins were pretty much asleep most of the time but that didn't stop them from enjoying themselves.
Hannah and Dad playing in a prehistoric cave.
Dallin's turn!
Sneaking in some loves between digging for dinosaur bones.
This was pretty fun. You get to build your own dinosaur. You can choose different heads, legs, tails spikes, etc... to create your own species. Best part is you can climb on them!
Taking a break from napping to take in some prehistoric scenery.
You can't really see it very well but right behind Aidan's head is a large brontosaurus. He was standing on the floor below us and his head came up right behind where Aidan was standing.

Hannah playing with a button that lights up to show different information. Another really cool part was a walking on a ramp through a dark room and you are completely surrounded by stars and galaxies. We had to go through there a few times. At first they were scared from the lack of light in the room, but once we told them the stars won't attack you it turned out being one of the favorite rooms.
Another great spot! We stayed in this room for about 45 minutes while the kids put on little rubber coats and had at it playing in a huge sand pit with toy trees and dinosaurs and even running water through it to make rivers and lakes. Barry and I even built a little dino-paradise. Stopping for a quick snap shot.........smile!
This was another fun spot. You grab a paint brush and brush away sand to discover hidden prehistoric skeletons. This is definitely a place we will go visit again.

Making Messes

It's eatin' time! Here are a few messy faces journaled as they learn adventure how to eat solid foods. In case you still can't tell by now, Kael is the red, Koen in the blue.




This pic of Kael on the floor was taken after a series of rolls and scoots he made his way across the room and got into some cat 5 cable. I figure this won't be the last of his trouble making antics.

Koen and Kael "pretend fighting" with the help of Aunt Kimmy and Uncle Bubba.
As you can see this particular scene is an exact scene from the movie the Matrix.
Uncle Bubba posing with his favorite twin nephews before he leaves us all for the marines.

Christmas 2006

We were so lucky to get Barry's parents to drive from Ohio and stay at my dad's house over the Christmas Holiday. How more perfect could Christmas be spent than with the people you love the most all under one roof!
Koen in the jumper, pooped from all the celebrating.

Storytime before bed.



Every year we get all the grandkids together for a day of "fun" at Kiddie Kandids for pictures to make a Christmas bulb for the grandparents. It's a tradition I started with Aidan and so far we haven't missed a year. Every year we seem to keep adding to the group.


We all managed to wear Santa hats and the kids absolutely loved wearing them. As you can see, Dallin is sporting a lovely red with white fur Santa hat that happens to match his snowman PJ's. I just had to get this shot of Koen. He's not yet sitting on his own so we put him in Dallin's new Cars chair which Koen was very comfy slumping in and observing the opening of presents.
Mamma's little elves couldn't be cuter!
Kael and Koen hanging out with Grandma (Barry's Mom)

Blessing Day

We had the twins blessed around Christmas since we had family visiting already. The boys are about 5 months old here. I couldn't really get a good pic of them together in their blessing outfits since they were already tired from their long day and were getting hungry. That didn't stop them from being very handsome little men.

Rugrats

Koen and Kael

Halloween 2006

Our little spooks! We had fun going to a Halloween party at Aidan's pre-school and then later went trunk-or-treating. We all had a lot of fun and ate our fair share of sugar for the year :)