Some of Mama's Favorites...

Here are a few pictures from this week that I thought were cute...

Pretty much at any point during the day, you will find John playing with a ball. When he wakes up in the morning or from a nap and he sees one of his balls, he gets so excited, as if it's the first time he has ever seen a ball! He loves to throw the ball, whether or not he has someone to throw it with...often he just throws the ball, goes to get it, and throws it again, only to continue the pattern. Or, he will just walk up to another mom the he doesn't know at the park and start a game of catch. His favorite person to play catch with, though, is daddy. :)

Hiking and picking wildflowers. Playing in the backyard.

Little Mountain Man

Johnny is finally walking on his own!!! Here he is blazing down a path by our house. Since the path has cows on one side, a little stream on the other and is covered with rocks, it offers hours of entertainment for a little boy! Behind John are the Flatirons, Boulder's famous landmark. After doing a hike in this area with John in the backpack, he enjoyed having some time for his own little hike. With a stick in one hand and a rock in the other, he is all set to take on the mountain!

Memorial Day Weekend

We had a beautiful Memorial Day weekend. On Sunday, we went on a 5.5 mile hike on the trails near our townhouse. John loves his baby backpack and just chattered the whole time, sometimes with words we could understand ('flower,' 'cow...mooooo' - no we didn't see any cows on our hike, but it happens to be a favorite word of his - 'rock,' 'oh man' - I wonder where he got that...) and sometimes just happily speaking his own little language.

The area that we hiked in is covered with gorgeous wildflowers.

Today, we rode our bikes downtown Boulder for the 'Boulder Creek Festival', which includes 3 days of various festivities, food & entertainment. I guess we wore John out, as he fell asleep in his bike seat on the way home.

We ended the weekend cooking out with our neighbors. John and our neighbor, Owen, are quite a little pair.

Nana & Papa's visit

Nana and Papa Huntoon just left after a week long visit to our home in Colorado. We had a great time and John loved the constant attention! Here are some photos from the time together.

Rocky Mountain National Park

Ben's parents are in town and we went to Rocky Mountain National Park for the weekend. It's only an hour away from us (that is a plug for you to come and visit)!! :) We saw Elk everywhere, which John affectionately called 'cows', so all we heard while we were there and since the weekend is, "Hi cow," "Moooooo," "Bye cow,"...over and over again! It's quite cute. Anyway, here we all are at Bear Lake.

Enjoying the view!
Nana, Papa & John by a river.
John hanging out in the baby backpack.
Daddy & John ready to hike!

Boot Camp Graduate!

Today I finished my 5 weeks of 'Boot Camp' (we met 3 days a week for a hour just at a park here in Boulder)!! Here are some of the ladies in my class with our trainer. It was a great experience for me and a great start toward getting back into shape. I haven't worked out as hard as we did since high school swimming and track. We even ran a timed mile twice, once at the beginning of camp and one at the end, and although it brought back bad memories of high school gym class, I improved my time by 45 seconds between the 2 runs, which was quite exciting!! So, all in all, I have seen much improvement over the 5 weeks in my physical fitness and endurance. Yippee!

Spring Fun!