Lately

We haven't been up to a whole lot lately. Daddy is full swing basketball so a lot of mommy girl time!!! The Hardrockers are currently 5-4!! Have won the last three games, things are looking up!!

Enna displaying our reindeer cupcakes
Hillbilly Gretchen

Playing in the leaves

Happy Fall and Winter!!!

Over due birthday post for my Gretchie 4 years old

So Gretchen's 4th birthday was October 29th!!! I know a month ago basically, a little late!!! We celebrated her birthday on Halloween with a costume party!! It was a lot of fun!! The girls dressed up as Daphne and Velma from Scooby Doo.

Enna as Daphne
Gretchen as Velma, pretty cute in glasses if I do say!
This is the morning of her real birthday October 29

Once again call me Betty Crocker!!! I left the cake on the stove while USING the oven to broil english muffin pizzas, um obviously you can see what happened. Luckily I had ghost cupcakes to serve and wasn't depending on the cake for everyone!!!

Make a wish!! Happy Birthday Gretchen, we love you!!!

Our Hike

Some pictures from our walk in the forest!!

The girls running free on the path!!!
Gretchen thinks she can take pictures with my camera!! This one turned out ok!!

A little sister hug on the trail.

Enna saying "waterfalls!!!"

Just for fun, this is where Gretchen fell asleep on Wednesday!!

The beautiful Black Hills, Roughlock Falls

The girls and I drove to Spearfish Canyon this morning and hiked a trail to the beautiful Roughlock Falls. It is a must do to drive through the Black Hills in the fall. We haven't done it for so long, I always say every fall that we need to but before we know it the leaves are gone and it is too late. So today I said "Let's go!!!" Unfortunately, Jason couldn't come with but the girls and I were able to manage, barely!! It was a mile hike to get there, easy, but with two girls that wanted me to carry them it got a little tiring. They did awesome on the way out though, taking turns leading us on the trail, even running at times. It was fun to watch them!! And GORGEOUS scenery to say the least. It really did feel like we were in a storybook, Gretchen kept saying "Mom, we are in the forest!!" Like it was magical or something. I did have a slight panic attack when I thought of the possibility of something crazy like a mountain lion could approach us(kind of a problem here in the hills) but I just said a little prayer and felt much better!! Everyone should try to come and visit us during the fall. It is worth the trip to take a drive through the hills and see God's beauty in nature!!

Let's go Rockies!!!

We went to Denver this past weekend. We stayed with our friends Travis and Lindsay, they were such great hosts!!

Here we are with them celebrating the big Rockies win, too bad they didn't win the next day!!
ROCKIES WIN!!!

We had soo much fun and were very good girls!!!!

Aquarium

We went to the Aquarium in Denver!!! It was awesome. We saw lots of cool sea creatures. Our favorite was when real, live mermaids were swimming in the tank with the fish. It was sooooo cool!!!

Before we went in!!
These are the mermaids, we loved watching them swim, and then we even got to meet them!!

Daddy and his girls in the cave.

Look at this big fish!!

Ooops posted this pic twice, oh well!!

I love my sister!!!!

A rare moment captured of the girls not fighting!!! Gretchen loves preschool but the most memorable thing that happened on her first day was when we picked Enna up from daycare. She came running towards Gretchen and said "Gretchen......did you go to school?" and gave her a big hug! It was the SWEETEST thing!! She was soooo excited for her big sister to start preschool and so happy to see her again. They do love each other!!!

Our two favorite little people!!!!!