Oh what fun...

A few weeks ago Cate and Ashton went to a friend's birthday party at pump it up.  It is a great place with lots of giant blow up slides, ladders, and obstacle course.  The kids had the greatest time and were completely worn out when we left.  Here are some pictures from there:

My parents came down from Steamboat last weekend for a visit.  My Dad brought his motorcycle down to get serviced at the dealer.  The kids thought it was really fun to get to sit on it (while it was on the trailer).  

Fun at home...Pool...Elk Ridge Park

Here are a few pictures of the kids playing at home:

We found this play house on craig's list and the kids are really enjoying having it in the yard

Cute picture of our little man

Saturday morning we headed over to the rec center to meet up with friends of ours to celebrate Cate's friend Camilla's birthday.  Our family and Camilla's family all went swimming together.  We had a fantastic time with them.  Here is a picture of Cate and Ashton in the locker room ready to go swimming:

Elk Ridge Park:

The woman who watches our kids while I work took the kids to a new park nearby on Friday and told me all about it when I picked the kids up.  It sounded amazing so Eric and I decided to take the kids there on Saturday to check it out for ourselves.  It was a 2.5 million dollar project and it was just recently opened.  It has a great park with very innovative play equipment, a great turf soccer/lacrosse field, and 2 different treasure hunt walking trails.  It is an amazing park and it is great that it is so close to our house.  Here are some pictures from the park:

To get to this slide there are stairs for the little ones on the left and giant rocks for the older kids to climb on the right

Here is the "little kid" area.  Ashton wasn't too interested in the smaller slide.

This thing spins around when someone pushes it.  This was the main attraction at the park for kids of all ages.  It is like "where's waldo" trying to find Cate.

Ashton and Cate took a turn pushing all of the kids on the ride.  They must be "super kids" because they were able to push all of those kids!

For the Easter weekend we headed up to Steamboat to spend some time with Grammy, Grandpa Rlowe, and Uncle Q.  The weather was really nice and we had a wonderful weekend.  Here are some pictures from our Easter weekend:

Grammy and Cate dying Easter eggs together

Ashton was more interested in playing with his trucks while they dyed Easter eggs

Ashton running around outside playing fetch with the dogs

Cate lounging on the ski lift swing watching the dogs

Daddy and the kids.  (I love the view!)

We put Ashton to work shoveling gravel :)
He found this shovel and loved moving the gravel back and forth

Cate wanted a turn and then realized that she didn't think it was very fun

My mom, Eric, and I took the dogs for a walk

The river was beautiful with the ice on the rocks

Eric with the 3 dogs

Later that day we took the kids swimming at Old Town Hot Springs.  The pools are very warm and the kids had a blast swimming

HIGHER, HIGHER

What lucky kids

Cate and Grandpa Rlowe

Cate was so excited to wear her Easter dress.  She looks so grown up

Posing for a picture before hunting for their Easter baskets

They found them!

Checking out the baskets to see what they got

Ashton hunting for Easter eggs

Cate and Mommy

Checking out what is in all of the eggs

Grammy made bunny shaped cinnamon rolls for the kids for breakfast

Before heading home the kids went for one last ride on Ranger Rick

We had a great weekend up in Steamboat.  It is amazing how much stuff we packed in to one weekend.  

swimming lessons

Cate is still taking swim lessons at the rec center.  She is really enjoying them and getting much more comfortable in the water.  Here are some pictures from a recent lesson:

Inside Day

Today it snowed a bunch and was pretty cold out so it was an inside day.  The weather has been so nice lately that the kids were very sad that we couldn't play outside today.  So I came up with a plan to entertain them today.  With Cate's help, I made a gas station and a store out of boxes, rope, and a toilet paper roll.  I hooked the rope and toilet paper roll together and then attached them to a box to make a gas pump.  Then I cut a box open and made a store counter that the kids could go behind.  Then a brought in their car, trikes, shopping cart, and pretend food for them to play with.  Lastly I put painters tape on the floor to make parking places.  They had a great time playing with all of this today.  I am really happy that the front room in our house is empty.  It was the perfect spot for our little town today.

After the kids went "shopping", they had snack at the table