Josh's Birthday

For Josh's 12 birthday we went to the Air force academy in CO springs, we toured that, then came home and Ed made a steak and shrimp dinner, was so yummy. We then had an ice cream cake which was also very yummy. Josh is a HUGE cubs fan and was so excited to get cubs tickets for his birthday, he doesn't look excited at all does he, lol. Ed and him will go to the game next week in Denver. What a great day.

COLORADO SPRINGS

We are in CO Springs now, we moved into our home on the 10th of July after much headache. Nothing can go quick and smooth, but we overcame those obstacles and got into our home. It was so nice having movers put things in all the rooms and all I had to do was unpack, if that isn't bad enough. We are all unpacked, but not fully situated. We have been fixing a lot of the things that were wrong with the house. We have a kitchen sink now, and knobs on the cupboards, and toilet paper holders, lol, We put fans in and Ed's garage is all organized and his truck is parked in it (toy garage). I decided I didn't want to decorate till I painted. So this week i got the painting bug, On Monday I painted Tyler and Zach's room, after I did that it was still early in the day so i did Alycias bathroom, I must have over done it that day cause Tuesday I finished Tyler's room the green part and cleaned up, and then was lazy rest of day, lol. So today I did the office (we are using it for a guest/craft room, so nice to have some color and not just white even though I just did a light tan lol. Funny thing is that this house has lots of COLOR and needs to be changed, but the rooms I painted were all white, trying to get the kids rooms done so they are happy, one done 2 to go, lol. We got the swing set put up last Sat and the kids are so excited to have that up, they play on it all the time. I guess CO Springs doesn't usually get very much rain so I am told, but since we have been here it has rained almost everyday and sometimes more than one storm each day. I am loving it as I now have to pay to water my yard, lol. We planted grass in the front yard about 2 weeks ago and there are tiny shoots, i am so excited I go out and look at them everyday, more and more of them all the time. Josh turned 12 on the 27th and went to his first mutral activity last night, and met some nice boys, hope he makes friends soon, he also went to 7th grade orientation and got his schedule and all that fun stuff. Sorry to babble, just boring stuff going on here. Hope to hear from you all soon, send me your blog if I don't have it. LOL

rain storm

Back in June we had a good rainstorm. After it was over, Zach and Alycia found a puddle in our yard, they loved playing in it. Simple things that make kids happy.

4th of July

For our last year in North Platte we had to take pictures of fireworks since CO your not supposed to put them off, lol. The kids had fun, we had a BBQ in our backyards (nieghbors and ours) was fun to play volleyball again, I will miss those get togethers.

engine problems

Right before the movers came Ed's car quit working, so he rented a car to work in CO that week. The movers came and packed us all up but some of Ed's tools. When Ed took his car apart this is what he found, a hole in the piston, yuck. So we ordered a new engine on Ebay and got it same day, thanks to wonderful friends who picked it up in Denver on their way back to NE. Ed worked on it all night, then next day got it up and going, car works great now, just was stinky timing for it to break down when we were moving and everything was packed.

moving day!!

Ed driving his truck into the semi. We had so much stuff we filled it all the way up. Was scary watching him drive in as truck kept stalling and was afraid of him kicking the boards out from under him.

Loading all the boxes. Kids liked to help (mostly get in the way, lol)

Zach loved jumping on the mattress boxes.

walking Tabby around house, kept him out of the way of the movers, LOL

Aaron's 10th birthday

Aaron turned 10 while grandpa and grandma Pugh were here. Ed was in CO on his actual birthday so we made him a sponge cake that day, and on Sat when Ed was home we had cake and presents and Aaron had his good friend Joe over. We went to the rec center and went swimming, they had so much fun. Forgot camera for swimming, but was fun take my word for it, LOL

grandma and grandpas visit

Train Display at Cody Park, Zach loved all the buttons and gadgets.

Grandma and grandpa and kids in front of the train display

Zach had to be JUST like Grandpa and sit on a stump, lol isn't that just adorable.

Kids and grandpa enjoying their ice cream cones.

Zach feeding the ducks

Loved this peacocks feathers, he was trying to get the FEMALES attention, but she wouldn't pay any attention to him, lol

Zach and grandpa, Zach made the cutest laugh when playing with grandpas suspenders.

Zach and his new blanket

Before we moved my parents came to visit, that was so much fun, we enjoyed seeing them. Zach loved Grandpas suspenders as you can tell in the video. Grandma Pugh makes all of the grand kids a beautiful quilt, they get it when they turn 2, She brought it with her on this trip, and he fell in love with it, he wanted to take it everywhere. It is on his new bed and he loves it, what a big boy no more crib. While my parents were here we went to the park, fed the animals, ate ice cream of course (that is what Cody park is known for)and went to the train display.