February 2015

Ellie singing Old McDonald had a Farm

Playing in tumble class

Apollos snowboarding!

Poppi and Hadyn helping Ellie ski!

Khaliel learning to snowboard!

Talking with a 2 year old.  :)

Eating lunch outside on a warm February day!

The boys getting ready to take snowboarding lessons

They both are naturals!  They did such a great job!

Ellie got in on the action with some toddler skis!

The mountains wore them out!

The men of my life cooking my birthday dinner

So glad my family was able to visit us on my birthday!

This month we had lots of visitors!  Some of my family came to visit for a week, and we took a trip up to the mountains to go skiing.  It was a blast! They were also here for my 33rd birthday.  We had beautiful weather!  70 in February!!  Solomon's aunt and uncle came to visit for a few days as well.  It was a busy month!!

January 2015

I don't want to eat carrots!

Beginning our adventure of homeschooling!

A queen size bed, and they are laying right next to each other!

Apollos chose to go on a day of snowboarding instead of a birthday party this year.  He did awesome!

It is becoming normal to us to play outside in 60 degree weather with patches of snow and ice still around...

Finally got some wet snow to make a snowman!

Ellie with her "desk", my great grandfather's old shoe shining box.

Ellie and Khaliel at their first tumbling class

Ellie LOVES the balance beam!

Painting the snow!!

The boys quickly said "look Mom.  It looks like I am peeing!"...boys!

January brought big changes to our family.  We have decided to do virtual school instead of traditional school.  It is working great for us!  Apollos does school from home 4 days a week online and then goes to the classroom 1 day a week.  I am so happy we found this school!  So far, our first winter in the mountains has been a lot of fun.  We will have 1-2 days of snow a week and the rest are in the 50's and 60's, with LOTS of sunshine!  It is GREAT!

December 2014

Decorating the Christmas tree!

I was so excited that for the first time in a long time, we have enough room to put out all of my houses around the Christmas tree!

The kids LOVED the train!

St. Nicholas Day!

The kids all got robes and slippers

Enjoying a warm day at the park!

Solomon's work party was at the Rockies Coors field.  We got to go on a tour of the visitors side of the stadium.  Of course, I had to get the picture of the Cardinal jersey!  Also, was surprised to find  out that Matt Holliday, a now Cardinal, used to be a Rockie...the last time the Rockies were any good!

Making Rice Krispy trains!

Khaliel decided to put Ellie's underwear on her horse's head.  He cracks me up!

Khaliel listening to the Christmas story at school

Apollos turns 7!!  We had a small birthday party while Skyping Nana and Poppi!

The edible Nativity scene the kids made at church.

Christmas presents!!

Making a Gingerbread Train with Daddy

Making Christmas Candy!

Ellie tasted more than she made.  :)

Getting ready to watch How to Train Your Dragon at Apollos' school

Eating lunch at school with Apollos on his birthday

More Christmas crafts!

The kids on Christmas Eve

Christmas morning!

Brooks family Christmas

We celebrated Apollos' birthday over the holidays with my family.  He had a dragon cake!  This case was so easy to make and turned out really cool!

The September babies!  They are getting so big!

December was a busy month for us full of Christmas and birthday celebrations!  My "baby" turned 7!!!  I can't believe how fast time is flying!  Apollos is becoming a young man too fast!  He is caring, sweet, competitive.  He started Tae Kwon Doh back up.  He is 50 lbs (46th percentile) and 48 inches (43rd percentile).  He loves reading, dragons, science, and dinosaurs.   He tested in the 95th percentile of all 1st graders in the Denver area.  I am so proud of him for how hard he works at school!  We made the decision to pull him out of regular schooled and enrolled him in a virtual academy.  So far, we really like it!  He does almost all his school on-line and just goes to school 1 day a week.  I still can't believe it is free!

Apollos chose Buffalo Wild Wings for his birthday dinner.

Ellie jumping on the kids new trampoline!