Thursday, January 29, 2009

Last night...

we took the boys to go see this...
it. was. the. best. show. ever!

The boys had NO IDEA that we were taking them to see this show and they had been asking about it, especially my prehistoric animal loving son, Luke. Even sitting in our seats before the show, with all these big teeth on stage, Luke thought we were going to see "Madagascar 2" and Benjamin thought we were going to see the circus!!! Finally, when the announcer said the "Walk with Dinosaurs" show would start in 5 minutes, our secret was out and they were sooo excited!
Luke was kind of bummed for a minute in the beginning when they opened up the show with a little movie, " AGH! It's a movie, not dinosaurs?" I pointed out to him these cute little baby dinosaurs on a rock in the middle of the stage, AND THEN, the curtains opened and out comes this real life fun- looking dinosaur and Luke's face was PRICELESS!!!! He was so excited!!! "They're real, momma!" Excited until, the dinosaur goes over and EATS the cute little baby dinosaur and has it dangling in it's mouth!!! The dinosaur then looks our way and then I hear loudly, " MOM, IT'S GOING TO EAT US!!!" from my wide-eyed little Luke! I quickly reassured him that they were in fact not going to eat us...Yep, within 5 minutes of the beginning of the show their is gasping, kids crying and kids that were once in their paid for seat are now in their parents lap!!! Thankfully, my boys just sat there and watched in awe!
The show goes through the different prehistoric eras and the different dinosaurs that go with that era and tells the life of the dinosaur. Everything was just awesome, from the pop-up vegetation, the lights, to the huge dinosaur poop! I couldn't get over how REAL the dinosaurs looked and how big they were compared to the guy, excuse me "paleontologist", that was on stage talking about them. Whoever made these things is amazing! Even their wrinkled skin looked so real! Their eyes blinked and the way they moved was so impressive! All of that combined, made you quickly forget that these things were indeed animated and fake and that the big dino's were on some sort of sliding thing and that the velocoraptor had 4 legs instead of 2! And the way they sounded and looked at you, GEEZ!!!!! That was probably 1/2 the reason that most of the kids were on their parents laps!!!
We started off before the show in our balcony seats, but because there wasn't alot of people there, we ran to the lower seats right before the show started, and if you can do that,
DO IT!!! To see the dinosaurs up close makes it even more fun and life-like! And I highly recommend the snow cones...yummy!
This show was by far the coolest kids show that we have ever been too! But, beware, it is not just the sweet, friendly "land before time" dinosaurs that are there....following the impending doom music, the predators from "Jurassic park" show up for dinner!
and...
guess who followed us home?
Lukeosaurus

This is me...

crazy haired and bug-eyed, going on the third day of no school for the kids because of ice and snow... p.s. the roads are FINE today, should have had school!
well. at least Ella is enjoying it!



Thursday, January 15, 2009

For Uncle Justin...

Ok, here you go, you wanted to see my HUGE muscles, so here they are! Luke


Friday, January 2, 2009

Durango, Colorado....

We just got back from skiing and we all are so sad and want to go back! We had such an awesome time! We can't wait for next year, but will probably go someplace a little bit closer! That was such a LONG drive! It was probably made worse with 3 kids in the back! But it was all worth it, Purgatory is such a fun mountain to ski! Ben and I got engaged in Durango 10 years ago, so it was fun to go back! The boys took 3 days of ski school and loved every minute of it, It was really fun to watch them progress every day, Ella did great in the child care and we got to watch my mom and dad learn how to ski for the first time, I got to try snowboarding and had such an awesome time skiing with Ben and my sisters! Wish we were there now... Our condo...

Our view every morning...

Benjamin, on the mountain ready for ski school..


The previous weeks before we got there, Durango just got dumped on! LOTS of snow! The icicles were so long!


This was our motto for the week...


There were huge piles of snow everywhere...


Luke, ready for ski school...he never wanted to come back inside, he loved it!

The boys after a long days hard work! Do you think I should change the date on Benjamin's camera?!!!

While we were waiting for my sisters to come off the mountain, Luke decided to dig himself a hole and get comfortable...

Me and my boys...


Daddy and his future ski buddies... Luke wouldn't take off his goggles for the longest time, it was very funny!


This was hilarouis! My dad has never been skiing before, and he was so excited! The question of the day was...."what goggles am I going to wear today?" Even if they didn't ski, he still wore them around the house!

Sweet Ella Bella...

Family pic... we missed you Justin, Jess and Jadyn!

Family pic...

How cute are they... I wonder how long the boys will let me dress them in matching shirts?

I wonder what they were all looking at?

mommy and Ella...
Daddy and Ella...

My best friend...


Good-bye Durango mountain!

This was the biggest cross I had ever seen, it was HUGE!
Thank you, Jesus, for getting us home safe and sound!






















My little basketball player...

Benjamin had his first basketball game recently and it was SOOO much fun to watch! He loved it and his team did really good! Hopefully next time they will do as well, because right now they all think they are pretty hot stuff! Good job, buddy! Benjamin, #8
if I stare really hard.... chasing after the player he was supposed to be blocking...
time out with the coaches!
We won!!!! It was like 40 to 4, but who's keeping score?