While mommy is away...

bye mommy!

coolest monkey ever

me and dad and a hippo named Bert, he is 53 yrs old

one of the many things dad bought me while mommy was away

painting with Ally

love getting messy

love my water toy, I talk about my "pul" constantly

daddy and Adriana play!   A few weeks ago I went to Vegas for a weekend of r&r and to catch up with my best friend Rachael.  We had a great time and Rob took some time off work and stayed home with Adriana.  They had a blast!  They went to the pottery painting place, the zoo, Rob made homemade finger paint (yes you read that right, he made it himself) and they painted.  He bought her a nice backyard pool for the house.  I am pretty sure they didn't even know I was gone.  :)   

 

4th of July

Happy family photo

With cousin Ally on one of the many sets of stairs in our townhome

Just chilling at the parade

Aunt Tara taught me to put flowers in my hair

All she really wanted at the parade were balloons.  Her cousins got these for her.

I love my balloons

Watching the parade with daddy

Hanging with mom

Getting ready for fireworks-the whole family

Ok, where are they?  We are ready!

Saddest face ever....right before she fell asleep waiting...

So this year for the 4th we decied to get out of town.  We made a last minute trip to Steamboat with my sister and her family and my brother and his wife.   It really turned out to be an awesome trip.  We stayed in a 5 bedroom townhome that was 3 stories tall.  We all had our own floor essentially.  It was nicer than all our houses put together.  We were lucky enough to see Rob's Aunt Toni and Uncle Bill and his cousin Laura and her family.  They have a house in Steamboat and were kind enough to have us all over for dinner.  They were great!  Some of the nicest people you will ever meet.   

We took Adriana to the hot springs, her first parade and her first fireworks show but she didn't quite stay up for it.  The fireworks didn't start until after 10 and she fell asleep between Rob and I about 20 minutes before it started.  We were very very close to them and they were loud and made the entire ground shake.  She didn't move a muscle.  It didn't even phase her.  So she kind of saw her first fireworks.  :)  We learned that all we have done to keep the noise down at our house apparently didn't matter.  She slept through the loudest fireworks any of us have ever heard.

It was a great weekend away from it all.  I am very lucky to have an awesome family and we really do have a lot of fun together.   

Chuck E Cheese

So I knew it would come...I knew that it would happen.   I knew that it was just a matter of time before Chuck E Cheese became a part of our lives.  We went there when we were in Fort Collins with Grandma and Grandpa and well, she loved it.  A lot.    The first 5 minutes we were there, she walked around squealing at all the lights, music and balloons.  

She is a little bit small still to play a lot of the games but really enjoyed helping daddy and mommy win tickets.   She loved it and well, I think some trips to the land of bad pizza and lots of fun are in store for Rob and I.