pool time

Cohen's new favorite part of the pool is the warm showers, truly his father's son!

Cold River City

another show for my brother, a battle of the bands (which they won)

Train Time...

...but this time painting one! Cohen was pretty excited to paint his own train, he had quite the concentration, it was adorable.

35 months with frog guy

Such a big boy now!

Cohen loves riding his pedal bike, going to the farmers market for the biscuit bus, giving hugs and kisses, his Cat and all of the neighborhood cats, and CHIT CHATTING! He talks and talks and talks now and it is so funny!

wine party

We hosted a fun wine night out in our courtyard, it was really fun and we'll have to start early next summer to fit some more in!

Bluff Lake Fireside Chats

We have a great nature center near our house that does free fireside chats during the summer. We finally made it to one of them.

 they were talking about bugs at this one

 Cohen eating a bacon wrapped cricket

 and a cheddar mealworm

 then we roasted some marshmallows

 sticky

post pool time

Cohen loves the showers at the pool...

 the best part is that he does exactly what Sam does in the normal shower. Just stands below the water with his hands behind his back and sways back and forth...so funny! Part of him loving the showers is that he gets cold so easily at the pool and the showers are warm.

 he looked so cute after his shower, I of course made him take some photos

this is the face we get when we say serious face...not sure why, but there you go!

trash truck tuk tuk

In the new part of the zoo it is all Asian themed, thus Asian Tropics. To go along with the theme they have a tuk tuk from Thailand (Chaing Mai actually where we visited when we went) and Cohen loves to play on it. On this given day he hopped on the back and told me he was a trash man because he was riding on the back and could hop on and off...why not?!

Soccer Time

Summer nights are so great for playing outside after work/school!

4th of July

We went up to Loveland on the night of the 3rd to spend the next day with the fam.

This is how I found my boys when I went back to check on them at bedtime.

The morning of the 4th we went over to the lake to the park to see what activities they had, we quickly learned it wasn't quite like it used to be when we were little with all kinds of kid booths so we defaulted to the train.

And waited patiently for it to come around again...

so we could ride again and again and again!

We spent the afternoon hanging out at grandma and grandpa's house with family. Cohen and Tammy enjoyed the bubbles.

not so little anymore Landon lounged

grandpa grilled

jello jiggled

John joined in the grilling

Cohen enjoyed some amazing watermelon

we had quite the crew

Landon and Sam

these two don't look like brothers at all

 and me since I am always the one taking all of the photos



well, except for this one of me and my little cutie

and the family photo

I thought for enjoyment I would include the whole process

and what it takes to get this many people ready to take a photo

closer

even closer

almost

and FINALLY the group shot, except for Gabby who is blocked by me!

my new favorite photo

and a good one of the 4 siblings

it was so fun to have the Lees crew visit

Kinler with some of his guys

Cohen trying a wheelbarrow

and finally a little singing before the fireworks, it was quite a fun holiday!