Twinners!

I actually managed to get Teagan's hair in a tiny french braid at the top of her head. So I decided to do Morgan's hair the same way since they were already dressed alike. I'm so lucky that they play so well together!

Mmm, Mmmm Good

Morgan has decided to take up
cooking. So she is now a fourth generation chili chef using the secret chili sauce recipe. It's pretty good stuff, a little spicier than usual because I snuck in some extra special chili sauce. Hee hee. Now all we have to do is wait for her to graduate to some more sofisticated entrees and we got it made at our house.

First Day of Preschool

Well, it finally happened. Morgan's now attending preschool and her mother is wiping the bitter-sweet tears from her face. Boy, do I feel older. Needless to say, she is loving every minute of it. There are 4 girls and 2 boys in her class and her teacher's name is Mrs. Weaver. They have done a lot of fun things so far like painting and learning new songs. I'm amazed at how fast she is learning her alphabet. She slready knows 6 or 7 letters at random. Dad gets a daily update every day when she gets home. We have to call him on the phone or go down to his work in person so she can tell him what she did that day. It's kind of cute ;) Dave even took some time off work so he could take Morgan to school on her first day. She's a Daddy's Girl, what can I say?

July 12, 2007 A Day of Imfamy...for me, atleast

July 12 is Teagan's birthday. Zipadee ay and hiedee ho! Because we live in a small house and we have a large family, we have to break up the celebration into two parts. Dave's family and my family. I think the kids like it because it makes their birthday seem to last longer. We decided to get two ice cream cakes. Morgan really liked the princess cake. We played it safe and got Teagan her own little cupcake. We thought digging into an ice cream cake might be a bit too cold forlittle fingers. And as usual when you have lots of aunts and uncles, Teagan got quite the haul of swag. It doesn't look like she's complaining though.

So Long, Farewell

It was a fun trip to Denver, even more fun because we got to do it with family. This was a view of the "Mile High City" from our hotel room window. We will see you again dear Denver.

Wings of the Rockies

We couldn't finish our trip without doing something for the guys, hence the trip to the air museum. It wasn't that bad, really. They had this little cute model of an early one-man airplane named the Katie-did. So I took a picture for Catie. Hee hee. But to tell you the honest truth, even with everything in the museum, it still didn't measure up to Hill Air Force Museum. I think we have such an awesome air museum and we tend to take it for granted. Que sera.

Here Fishy, Fishy

What's more exciting than watching a school of fish swimming over your head? How about watching a diver feeding the sharks or sticking your hand in a pool of rays. We got to do all of those things at the Denver Aquarium. This may have been Morgan's favorite place. Everything must be extra large and magical for a little three year old. Even though the light wasn't that great throughout most of the museum we still managed to get some decent pictures. I wish I could post all of them in this blog but I don't think there is enough space alloted to me. Dave and Abe actually stuck there arms in the tank at the end of the museum to pet the rays (I can't remember which kind of rays they were). They looked too slimy for me so I didn't even try. Maybe one day I will rally up the nerve and just do it.

The Denver Botanical Gardens

One of my favorites places in Denver is the Botanical Gardens and I had the chance to go twice. Woohoo! It was kind of warm the first time we went, even though we tried to beat the heat by going earlier in the day, but the second time I went it was perfect. Wet, but perfect. It had been raining, no, pouring all afternoon but it did finally let up right before the Gardens closed. The overcast sky had made all of the colors just jump out at you and the rain cooled the temp down.In the Childrens Garden they had a really cute display. Planter boxes filled with plants that, when cultivated and combined, made different kinds of food. For example, one planter there were peanut plants, grape vines and wheat. All things planted to make peanutbutter sandwiches. I thought it was kind of cool.

I Love to See the Temple

Morgan loves to go to the temple here in Utah. Well, she loves to drive to and look at the temple. So we thought we would take her to see the Denver temple while we were there. It is a beautiful temple, and I think under normal circumstances she would have really enjoyed it, but we had woken her up from a nap. She was pretty grouchy and sulked on the temple steps for a little while before she started to perk up. That's Catie and Abe there at the top of the stairs.

The Clive Cussler Museum

While we were in Denver we had the oppertunity to visit the Clive Cussler Museum where they have showcased many of the cars that are featured on the back of his (Clive Cussler) books. I think it was one of Dave's favorite places in Denver.

The Train Ride to Denver

Back in June we went for a ride on the Amtrak Train to Denver with Mom, Dad, Catie and Abe. We had so much fun. The train ride itself had to be one of the highlights of the whole trip. I was pleasantly surprised to see that Morgan and Teagan did as well as they did. I guess it helps when you can sleep some of the time away on a 16 hour ride to Denver. Teagan spent a lot of time in her carseat. But one of the nice things about taking a train is that you are able to get up and move around, stand up and stretch your legs, get some food in the dining car or observatory car. We left salt Lake around 7:00 am and got to our hotel in Denver around 1:00 am the next morning. As much as we enjoyed the ride on the train, I think we were all very glad to get to the hotel and sleep in a bed.