COA dinner

Well last Saturday my siblings came down from Laramie to watch my kids, so me and Shawn could go to the COA (Colorado Optometric Association) dinner. Thanks guys, I really appreciate it. It was awesome. It was black tie optional, so I got to wear something other than blue jeans :). Unfortunately we didn't take pictures, maybe next time. It was good to get to meet some of the other ODs, especially the ones that Shawn works with. It is always nice to put a face with a name. The theme for the dinner was, 20 years of Therapeutic Excellence. So in 1988, Colorado passes a law stating that optometrists could write prescriptions. Yeah!! Shawn and I were joking that we should go up to the older doctors and thanks them for what they did while we were in 1st grade. :). But it was a great dinner, Shawn's brother was recognized for 10 years in the AOA. Congrats Kevin! And the lead speaker was Tom Sullivan. Who has been blind since birth and has lead a extraordinary life. Opened my eyes to what someone can accomplish. And not to look at blindness like a defect or disablity, but as a opportunity.

I finally did it...

So I finally did it. I saw on my friend's blog, how she got glasses, not because she needed them. But because any optometrists wife should have a cute pair of glasses. I now have a slight prescription. So I figured why not.

Playing outside

It was such a nice day outside, we just had to get outside. Chloe is still trying to learn how to peddle on her tricycle.

Green Mountain burnt

Picture from the park, those apartments are next to ours (more to the left)

Picture from I-70

We live in a area called Green Mountain. Right up against the mountains. Anyways, on 8/4/2008 we had a storm in the afternoon, which started a fire on Green Mountain. They think that it was lightning that started it. Anyways, it was a little scary but I knew that it had to burn through alot of homes before it would hit ours. But still only being a couple miles away it makes you think what you would grab if you had to leave. Here are some pictures that I took 8/19/2008

Denver Zoo

We bought a membership at the Denver Zoo. Both Chloe and Austin love animals. Chloe always asks if she can go see the animals at the Zoot (Zoo). It was alot of fun. One crazy thing that happened, we were in the gorilla house and the kids were up on the step to look in at the gorillas. We heard a airplane fly overhead and it must have spooked one of the gorilla or he just didn't like it. But he can charging at the glass where the kids were standing and hit the glass hard with both of his hands up. That was a shock. 8/10/2008

Cousins

We went to go see my cousin who lives in Littleton (it is about 15 minutes away from me). And most of her family was also at her house. It was soo awesome. Since this was the first time that I saw her new house and I was able to meet most of my cousins' kids. Chloe and Austin had a blast. Chloe is now constantly asking to go and see her cousins and play. Especially since she saw all of her cousins on Shawn's side of the family over the 4th of July. So she now thinks that most little kids are her cousins. 8/2/2008

Play Group (Water Park)

We went to a park with a water feature for our moms playgroup from church. It was a ton of fun. My kids just love water. And I found out that Austin loves to explore. 7/31/2008