Inspiration from the Friend

October 18, 2009 - I get a lot of inspiration from church magazines, and it seems that Becca does too. The cover of the October Friend magazine had a picture of a child building a temple out of blocks. I came downstairs this Sunday to find Becca had decided to do the same thing. Here is Becca, the architect next to her block temple. Reese was jealous, and had to pose too.

Tristan Gearhart, The Denver Broncos Kick-off Kid

October 11, 2009 - For my birthday, Tristan and the kids took me out to Red Robin for dinner, and they had a coloring contest there. The kids colored a sheet and I didn't think anything about it again until I got a call from the Denver Broncos saying that Trister had won! His prize was 2 side-line passes to the Broncos/ Patriots game, 2 extra tickets, a Broncos jersey, and he got to run onto the field after kick-offs to retrieve the tee! Tris is such a sweet boy, he's usually just doing his own thing, being quiet and good, never really in the lime-light, so I was really excited that he was able to have a big deal made about him for once. He and his Dad went up to the game with his uncle Tyler and cousin Griffin, and had a great time. The Broncos jerseys were yellow for this games because it was some kind of anniversary for the NFL or something, so the teams wore old throw-back jerseys. Look how close they are to the field! They got to stand right along with the reporters and photographers, just a few feet from the team.

Dad and Tris

Here's Tris, running out to get the tee.

Here's a clip of him doing the mile high salute and running back off the field with the tee. The guy standing on the sidelines works for the Broncos and was coaching Tris on what to do.

It was really cold that day, so the 2 Tristans stood by the large outdoor space heaters occasionally to warm up. Apparently, Trister got a little too close to the heater, because his jersey got a hole melted right into it! He wasn't hurt - he didn't even realize what had happened until his Dad told him! The Broncos are sending him a new one in the mail.

Jammie Time!

October 10, 2009 - This was just a random photo shoot because the girls got new matching p.j.'s. They had a lot of fun jumping all over the place and posing for pictures. These were my favorites.

I love how much these two look like sisters - My little brown eyed girls!

And Tris and Cam didn't want to miss out on jammie pictures, so here they are getting ready for bed. Cameron is posing with his new favorite book, "No David!" He loves it because he can "read it" by himself (he has it memorized).

Here's Tris reading "Goodnight Gorilla," another favorite of my kids.

Thanks Poppy and Grandma!

October 8, 2009 - Poppy and Grandma couldn't stay forever, unfortunately, so here's our last group shot before they headed for home. Thanks for all the fun! We love you guys and can't wait to see you next year!

Skate City

October 8, 2009 - The kids' school had a roller skate night at skate city, so we all went.

Here's Cam in his skates. That was interesting! I had the guy lock his skates so he could just walk on them without the wheels rolling, but Cam knew something was up and demanded we fix his skates. So of course after that, the skates were "slippery"! But he liked them better that way. I had to keep at least one of his hands in mine the whole time, because his little feet slipped out from him a lot! Oh, the back pain!

Tris and Grandma both concentrating very hard at skee-ball!

Unfortunately, this was the only picture I got of Becca skating - it was pretty dark, but she was having a blast!

Reese kept Poppy very busy. He chased her all over the place trying to keep her from running onto the skating rink, or from getting hit in the head by crazy kids throwing their skee-ball a little too far. I'm actually really sad I didn't get a picture of that - he makes me laugh when he's in full-bodyguard mode!

A visit from Poppy and Grandma

October 2, 2009 - My Dad and Leona came to visit from Mississippi for a week. We had a lot of fun spending time with them. They spoiled us a lot, as usual! We went out to eat and to the movies and the mall and the zoo and swimming and roller skating and to a soccer game.....whew! Anyway, we did a lot of fun stuff, and the kids (and grown-ups) had a great time.

Here's Poppy reading the kids a bedtime story.

October 3, 2009 - Freezing at the kids' early morning soccer game!

Becca, attacking the ball.

Run, Tris, run!

Tristan and Cam

Dad and Leona in front of the rising sun.

What's that on your face, Poppy?

Next stop - IHOP!

Reese showing Grandma her butterfly balloon.

Tris and Cam with their balloon dogs.

Becca with her tiger.

Quick pit stop at the mall, where we hit Build-aBear, the pet store, and visited Aunt Jakelle. . .

...Then on to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo!

Tris feeding a giraffe

Reese and Grandma by the giraffes

Looking at the tiger

Cam and Poppy watching the otters swim

Queen of the mountain!

Becca and Poppy by the giraffes

Brave Cam and Becca petting a snake

Cameron's 4th Birthday!

September 15, 2009 - I made it home just in time to celebrate Cameron's birthday with him. I got in the night before. I was a little loopy because I woke up at 4 in the morning and was not able to get back to sleep (jet lag)! So I made do, and started decorating the house with birthday stuff at 4 a.m.! Cam seemed to have a really fun day. He told his Dad all he wanted for his birthday breakfast was fruity rice krispies, so that was pretty easy. Then we went out for lunch to Burger King with Reese and Dad, and had some family and friends over that night for cake and ice cream. We love you Cam! It's so hard to believe how big you are getting!