River Rafting

Our fourth of July extravaganza continued on Saturday. Andy went rafting on the Westwater section of the Colorado River - in Utah, just west of here. I think a fun time was had by all, especially since the river is running so high this year. Only 2people got thrown out of the rafts. Yikes!! I'm glad I stayed home with the girls. I don't know if my pregnant body could have handled all of the excitement.

Fourth of July Weekend

We dog-sat our friends' dog, Sparky over the 4th of July week. I think we all fell in love with him. He loved cuddling with us, and he and Chloe formed an especially close bond.

On the third of July, we crashed a friend's family reunion at the Fruita State park where we were able to have a great view of the Fruita fireworks. On the 4th of July, we headed up to Rangely for the day with a big group of friends for boating and picnicing. When we got home that night, we set off lots of our own fireworks out front. I'm not sure if my big scaredy-dog Henry has recovered from all of the loud noises yet.

Summer Hikes

Flower Girls

Kayla and Chloe get to be flowergirls in their Uncle Mike's wedding to Loni. Kayla loves her dress while Chloe is mad that it is not fancy enough or long enough. She ran to her room crying, locked the door and wouldn't come out. Ugh...I hope she doesn't act like this at the wedding!

Magdalena did special French braids for the girls today. I'll have to come up with some sort of cute hair-do for the wedding. Unfortunately, I'm not very good at doing their hair. Maybe Aunt Gina will help??

Henry

We all LOVE Henry, what more can I say? He's our first child. I let him sleep in my bed more than I let the girls and I must admit that sometimes I would rather cuddle with him instead of Andy. He is the embodiment of pure love and devotion and doesn't have a mean, spiteful, or angry bone in his body. We could all learn some lessons from Henry.

Much to our sadness, we learned that Henry has cancer. He is almost 10 years old and we made the difficult decision not the try any treatment that could prolong his life. We think such treatments would only cause Henry unneccessary suffering. Henry is currently doing great and wants to fetch as much as ever. We are going to continue treating him like the King he is and hope that he is able to live out the remainder of his life full of joy and treats!

End of School Year Fun

It is hard to believe that the end of kindergarten has already come around for Kayla. The last few weeks of school were filled with fun stuff, including a field trip to both Moon Farm and the Fruita Pool. Chloe and I were lucky enough to attend both. On the last day of school, Kayla had a cute program with singing and root beer floats (for which I forgot my camera). She is getting so big and I am going to miss her so much when she is in full day school next year. I'm so excited for all of the fun adventures and relaxing at-home times we will have this summer.

Carnival

Grandma and PopPop felt bad that they were not able to take the girls to the Dinosaur Museum while they were here, so they left us money to take the girls to a travelling carnival instead. Kayla like the funhouse, while Chloe was more adventurous and tried more rides, including the giant slide, roller coaster, and train. I think Andy had the most fun of all playing all of the games and trying to win giant stuffed animals for the girls. My favorite part was all of the cotton candy.