Denver

We went to Denver this past weekend to visit Michael and to celebrate Xander's first birthday.  Karen, Julie, and Zaidee flew in from Salt Lake and it was fun to be together.  We went to the Natural History Museum, out to eat several times, to the park, on walks, and hung out at their house.

Natural History Museum

My favorite exhibit was figurines made completely of stones and gems.  

Eating out

 We went out twice to Vietnamese Pho restaurants, it's my new favorite food! 

 Delicious basil, jalapeno, sprouts, and lime.

 Eating out is so crazy with kids!  We had three 1 year olds and a 6 year old.  I felt bad for the people sitting by us, we were so loud.

Xander's Party

Xander had a Winnie the Pooh themed party and Lisa made a cute three tier cake.  Uncle Kelly and Teresa came and gave Xander a walker that all the babies loved.  He also got a toy cat that moves around the house and Ellie loved chasing it.

 

Pictures in the park

Julie took some family pictures for Mike and Lisa on Sunday, they turned out cute!

  

On a walk

We took the kids for a walk around this awesome trail by their house.

Just hanging out 

Pumpkins and Witches

Halloween was a blast this year!  Holidays only get better with kids!  The only bummer was that Matt was in Houston for an interview so Ellie and I just went to a few friends houses trick or treating and then crashed at Chad and Mandi's for the evening (I had no candy to pass out so I didn't want to be home...ha, ha).  The week before Halloween we carved pumpkin's with Chad, Mandi, Brady, and Kale.  I never realized how dangerous pumpkin carving is!  I swear we had to take knives away from each kid a few times...yikes!

 Yes, he is wearing underwear ( :  If you know Brady he is ALWAYS in his underwear LOL!  He is the sweetest thing, he always tells me "I love you Lisa."

 Kale is the same age as Ellie but he's HUGE!

 HALLOWEEN PARTY AT BOTANICAL GARDEN

 Can't you just hear her evil witchy cackle.

The end of the night, all sugared out.