Friday, June 25, 2010

June Happenings

June has been a busy month for us! Obviously the moving in part made it busy, but we were also busy having oodles of noodles of FUN!!!

We went to our VERY FIRST ever Rockies game at Coors Field as a Fam. Alan had been to a White Sox game the year they won the World Series, but none of us had been, so it was a night of lots of firsts...



There was a lot of brotherly love that night ;) It was hot at first, but as soon as the sun went down and the crowd was good and drunk... the fun began!

The kids really loved it! And at $11 for the whole fam damily... we will be going back for many family nights!
(There was a special that night, but even on a regular night it's pretty cheap)
We ended up going back sooner than later... 2 nights later, we went on a date night with some of Carolina's friends (they couldn't come)...

It's hard to tell... but it was pouring rain this whole game! It was FREEZING!!!! But, like the DIE HARD Rockies fans that we are... we stayed until the end!

The crazy dudes... and my new "Bestie" with her hubs (Katie & Garret)

Amber & Brad Faucet

Poor Amber was totally preggers and freezing... I felt SO bad!

We look surprisingly dry for how wet we really were...
We bought season passes to Elitch Garden's this year (it's like Lagoon).
These pics are from a Monday night. We went for family night and there was NO ONE there! It was awesome!

They must have rode this ride like 50 times that night!

The infamous Wacky Warehouse... otherwise known as the "balls, balls, balls, balls, balls, etc..." by Tyty. He can' get enough of this place!

The kids convinced Ty to ride the Cactus Coaster and he really liked it the first time... not so much the second time. Isn't Hallie being SO SWEET protecting his head so he didn't get bonked?
The Kids took swimming lessons for 2 weeks and it was perfect! It got them to the pool and I didn't actually have to get in! Which is really good, cause I'm not a fan of the public pools around here...
This is on the last day of class. Their teacher finally let them jump of the diving board!
They were Pumped!!

Jaxon manned up and jumped off the high dive!!!!

I could never do that, so I was WAY impressed!! Need to sign them up for another session ... soon!

Summer & Jessica Ashby
Summer has been making lots of friends at church and I am SO glad, because I was really worried about moving an 11 year old! This pic is from a slumber party she was invited to with the girls from her church class.

I signed Jaxon up for baseball camp this week. They went from 9-12 everyday and he loved it! It got pretty freakin' HOT too... Like today, it was already 80 degrees by 9 am! But he was still pumped to go everyday. I would find him dressed, bed made, full tummyed, and playing video games when I would emerge from my bedroom every morning! He is SO not my son ;)

This is when he hit a "Grand Slam"!

I'm pretty sure we will be doing baseball camp again next year!

And June would not be complete without Tyty toting around a golf club and ball everywhere we went. This kid is addicted to golf and anything that has to do with a ball really. If Tyty is missing, he can usually be found on the front lawn playing golf!
(Looks like we've got another "lefty")

We really love Colorado so far. When we are not at swim lessons, Elitch, playing baseball, or at Rockies games... we can be found down in Castle Rock swimming with friends!
This is turning out to be the BEST SUMMER EVER!!!

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Colorado

So, you might have been thinking... what happened to the Arthur's?? Well, I am happy to say that we are back and yes, we are alive!

We moved into our cute little house in Longmont on May 17th and I am finally starting to feel a little bit settled. We have a great ward and awesome neighbors too! The kids made friends right away, and since that was my biggest worry about the move... things are lookin' good!

Of course there were a few hiccups along the way, like the week we moved in my washer was broken, Alan was out of town, and the Internet was down all week! Now, that might not seem like a big deal, but when you have a house full of boxes, baskets & baskets of dirty clothes, and no way to get your Job done... it made for some serious stress!

The only other thing that is driving me CRAZY is the smell of the carpet in the family room... it smells like stinky shoes or a sweaty armpit! And NO amount of scentsy seems to get rid of it! Aaaahhhh! I hate it when it stinks in my house, so I think we will be having the carpets shampooed (does that look right?) already!

Here are some pics of our new crib...