SUMMER TO DO LIST

• Mini Golf (June)
• Movie in the Park
• Renaissance Festival (July)
• Aquarium (July)
• Golf
• Black Hawk  (June)
• Go on a picnic
• Bowling (July)
• Go to a movie at the theater (June - Toy Story 3)
• Rockies Game
• Smores (July)
• Camp out in basement
• Storytime at Tattered Cover (July)
• Parks (Weekly)
• Visit the horses on the side of the road

Just for Me:

• Make mint iced tea
• Go to a Paris Street Market
• Make festive fourth of July pies
• Start my year of simple abundance
• Enjoy the front porch
• Make Aidan a super hero cape
• Grow herbs
• Make weekly meal plans and stick to them! (In Progress)

The Proof is in the Pictures:

Good News!

Steve finally heard back about the job he's been waiting for and he got it! To celebrate, we went to Hapa, and Aidan surprised us by eating with chopsticks!

Q1 Recap - Things that Melt My Heart

January 3 - I was walking by Aidan's nursery class room and one of his teachers asks the class, "Are you a child of God?" and Aidan is the only one who answers, "Yeah."

January 25 - Manners Count! As I am putting Aidan in his crib to go to bed, I ask him if he wants to listen to music, and once I turn it on, he says "Thank you mommy." On the occasionally early mornings where he ends up in our bed, he ask "can I have milkey please?" and then when I bring it to him replies "thank you."

February 5- Aidan's favorite new thing is to tell you to "comere" (come here); comere to play, comere to go somewhere, etc. It's so neat to see him develop and grow each day. He is full of life and personality.

February 14 - Tonight as we were putting Aidan to bed, saying prayers and reading, he decided to put us to bed on the floor of his room. He told us each goodnight, gave us a kiss and then went out of the room and shut the door. A minute or so later he came back in to wake us up.

February 25 - Last week when we were at Aidan's 2 year appointment we found out he has an ear infection. So we've been giving him his medicine two times a day, and the easiest way to do it is with him looking in the mirror at himself - who knew!

March 7 - I Love to See the Temple! Aidan loves singing this song and never gets tired of singing it - he usually will chime in on the last word of each phrase.

March 18 - "Shtam Up" Aidan's way of saying stand up.

A Happy Saint Patrick's Day

We had a wonderful St. Patty's! We went to the parade and ended up getting perfect seats and having a lot of fun. The favorites of the day were the fire trucks, the dogs and the balloons that were lost in the sky. This year I decided to made Irish Soda Bread for the first time. It was very yummy and turned out a lot better than I thought it would; I'll definitely be making that again. On Tuesday (we had to have our St. Patty's day dinner on Tuesday because I went to Mary Poppins the musical on Wednesday - it is a new favorite) we had corned beef with potatoes and carrots and Aidan actually liked and ate it. We made green popcorn balls and watched Shrek.

Aidan - A Cowboy/Construction Worker