Adelaide turns 6!

Just a few short days after we moved to Santa Fe, this little lady had a birthday. I cannot believe that she is 6!

We made a special breakfast - pancakes with sprinkles! For lunch we went to McDonald's with a play place (and wifi so that I could work since we still didn't have our own).

She has been quite adamant for several months now that her birthday treat would not be a cake or cupcakes, but wanted me to make beignets. I had never made them before, but we did...and forgot to take pictures. At least we got a picture of her birthday breakfast!

We loe this girl and are so excited about all the things she's learning and doing as she gets older. Most days she loves her brothers and plays really well with them. She is an awesome reader and is super smart. We basically think she's the best that there is.

We are moved

At the beginning of June, we packed up all our stuff and we headed south. We had lots of people come to help us on the Colorado end. My mom and sister Taylor and brother Michael came and so did my Aunt Jodie and her son Jacob. It was so wonderful to have so much help. Especially with the cleaning part. That's my least favorite part of the whole moving process.
My mom and sister had to head back to Utah for Taylor to get ready to go into the MTC, but everybody else followed us down to Santa Fe and helped us move into our new home.
We are seriously so terrible at taking pictures, so there are none to show of this whole experience.
Jason started work a few days later and the kids and I began exploring. So far we love it here, and now that we have our heat/light blocking curtains up in the family room, we don't mind the heat so much.
Actually it hasn't been too bad so far. Most afternoons a storm rolls through and even if it only threatens to rain, the clouds do a pretty good job of cooling everything off. Plus it's a dry heat. I've never been appreciative of high humidity. And, boy are we looking forward to the winters here!
We also have had more visitors in the first few weeks than in any other time of our entire married life. And we love it! The house we're in right now is actually really well suited for visitors, so please come and visit us! Plus Santa Fe has awesome food and lots of cool stuff to see and visit. So far, we love it!

Fun with G&G G

Grandma and Grandpa Gonzalez came to visit just a few weeks before our big move. So, we had to have lots and lots of fun.

Dress ups, headphones, and riding big wheels in a unique way. This is actually more of an every-day occurrence at our house, but it happened to take place during their visit.

Grandma won with the bubble guns - sometimes the dollar store does have good stuff! (And I thought the picture was pretty cool too).

An attempt at an Us-ie on the train at Fort Fun.

Jason and Addie on the go-karts.

We all loved this ride the best - the bumper boats. They had just enough that it was just our family and we all got to go around squirting each other and bumping into each other's boats.

Grandpa was the only one who got his own boat, and he might have had a bit too much fun with it.

Dexter wouldn't let me touch the controls at all - it was quite a wild ride!

In the arcade.

Mini-golf was quite exciting as well. I was mostly impressed that we were able to do about 15 out of the 18 holes before the kids were done.

"I think I found the ball"

A Silly Boy

There was one night just as Jason and I were going to bed, we heard quite a loud noise that sounded like Dexter's toddler bed being lifted up. Jason went to go check on everybody, and came back saying that Dexter was gone.
Needless to say, I freaked out.
We went back in together, and sure enough, Dexter's bed was empty and he was nowhere to be seen. As we kept looking, I saw a foot poking out from under his bed. This is what we found:

The next morning he told us he was "hiding from the lights". There had been a pretty good storm that night and he must have been bothered by the lightning.

Fun at the Zoo

Addie's kindergarten class was going to the zoo, and I thought it would be a fantastic idea to take the boys and meet them there.
Why did I think this was a good idea?
It might have been one of the worst ideas I've ever had.
But, know that we were moving and might not have the chance to go to the Denver Zoo again, we went.
The zoo happened to schedule the visits of 37 schools on that day.
Yes, 37.
It was ridiculously crazy.
As in, there is one way to get in for everyone, whether you're in a mini-van or a bus. So, with about 60 buses in the lane trying to turn, I could not even get into the parking lot.
So we parked a couple blocks away and walked up to the entrance.
And then we tried to find Addie and her group.
And apparently the school didn't know that I was coming. Even though I filled out the form. Yup.
I was a bit stressed.
But it ended up working out and we found her group before they saw much of anything.
And it was only moderately crazy trying to keep track of my boys while keeping up with her group of 4 girls and 2 parents.
Here are the only pictures I got while they were sitting still to eat lunch.