Centennial #1!

Well, we finally fulfilled our promise to the kids.  Sunday morning we drove down the mountain and attended our previous church – which was so fantastic.  We were able to see so many friends and the kids were able to reconnect with some of their buddies.

Following church we drove over to Highlands Ranch to see our friends Lee and Valesca. We have known the Bybee’s for about 14 years – and our lives have been intertwined in both New Mexico and Colorado and we love them.  We loved playing with their crazy little boston terriers and chatting. 

Monday was a crazy day – each of the kids had a play date with a friend, I had lunch with a friend, and we spent some extra time with Valesca.  We managed to get Sophie to the vet for her booster shots and then gathered the kids once again and headed over to visit our friends, the Grays.

Karen and Mark Gray are friends of ours from Peabody.  We met them the very first year that Michael taught there because he had one of their daughters in his class.  We have loved them ever since.  The Gray kids set up a super crazy slip and slide made out of two large black tarps, a very large quantity of Dawn dish soap, and a hose.  They all had a blast being completely out of control as they frothed their way down the contraption.   It was fabulous.  We also had the opportunity to spend some time with the Sandstrom family and with our friend Stacey LeMay.  What a fun night!

The next morning we dropped Gabi off at a play date and then dropped Michael and Luke off on another.  The boys headed up to Golden to check out a fantastic place where they manufacture telescope mounts. 

  Of course they need to have some really fabulous telescopes too, and they loved seeing all of it.   Isa and I ran errands and then after collecting Gabi we went out to meet the boys in Littleton.  We stayed with our former neighbors, Travis and Sarah, and their two hysterical bulldogs. Lindsay and Hayden came down with the baby and we all had another of our traditional family dinners that we have been doing for years now.  It’s so much fun to be together.

Wednesday we spent a good part of the day with Taylor and Stephanie Dix and their kids.  After all the constant running around we had been doing, it was good to have a laundry day and flop on the Dix’s couch to chat.  Luke ran off to have another day with a friend, which did him good.

One of my preschool babies now a big first grader!

It has been such an exciting week I can't even fit it into one post!  Colorado has been good for us.