Swim Lessons

This was Lucas' favorite part of swim lessons. :) A little bribing....

This Winter/Spring (for about 8 weeks total) both Christian and Lucas attended swim lessons 2 days a week. Christian is definitely becoming really comfortable in the water but needs to improve on not inhaling water and getting more comfortable in the deep end. Lucas' first class was the lonnngest ever with clinging to the wall and begging for Mommy, but he is now comfortable blowing bubbles and even going down the awesome pool slide at our local Y. It looks like there may be lots of pool visits in our future!

While Daddy's Away...

After Steve's spring semester ended, he and most of the students in the Industrial Organization Psychology program at CSU flew off to Hawaii (!) for a conference. Meaning...Christian, Lucas, and Noah were stuck with Mommy for the week. Christian had a couple of days of school left, but otherwise we kept busy with friends, and enjoyed Colorado's beautiful Spring weather. This was my first time keeping all three boys by myself for an extended period of time; not sure how I did a deployment and such lengthy TDY's!

Spring in Colorado

Spring in Colorado is quite different than the past 7 years of Spring that we had in California and most certainly different than South Carolina. It is much slower moving, and maybe not quite as colorful. Regardless, I got a few pictures of the beautiful tree in our front yard last week. It was a gray day, so the tree almost looked like it was covered in snow rather than white flowers. And of course...photos of cuties at the bottom. :o)

Easter 2014

For Easter weekend we spent Saturday at Nana and Papa's house. The day was laid back and quite overcast. Christian enjoyed practicing/learning how to throw a baseball with Papa, and helped Papa in the yard while Lucas played with trucks. Steve enjoyed the fancy car that my dad brought home for the weekend. The boys also helped Nana decorate Easter cupcakes. In the afternoon while the two littles were napping, Papa, Steve, and Christian went golfing for a bit before it became too cold.

On Sunday we celebrate Easter with Grandpa and Grandma's house with fun at the park, a special Easter egg hunt, and Grandma made everyone their own scavenger hunt to find a little treat. We then had a yummy brunch with all the family.

Flowers

I just can't get over how pretty the flowers in our yard are this year. We are going to miss these beauties! (But not the weeding or bugs!) Oh yes, and a couple of cuties at the bottom. :o)

More Spring

A few more Springy photos that would have been perfect with the last post.

Christian's preschool had a "Grandfriends Day" where they invite grandparents and friends to see their classroom, have a Spring parade, and then enjoy cookies and lemonade. I just thought Christian was so cute with his little flower hat. :o) This is C with one of his teachers: Mrs. Nikki in the parade.

Christian also was thrilled to find this little guy in our watering can in the backyard. He would not leave it alone. But I must say, the frog was brave enough to jump on the water table in order to get to safety on the other side.