Pringalings!

Our good good friends Jeff and Judi were out here last weekend with their boys Owen and Willett and Jeff's parents Al and Char. It's always such a great time to be with them but unfortunately, we usually only catch them on a one-day drive-by through Denver...so having 4 whole days with them was heaven!

We had a great pool day with Alex and Karen and Bennett too - we were so excited to watch all the boys play together, they seemed to really like each other.

Good times were had by all...

On Sunday, Judi was running the Rock And Roll Marathon and I'm so incredibly proud of her, it was her first marathon and she raised a bunch of money for Team in Training...plus she finished! She's amazing. Here's some shots from the day including the signs we made her during Warrenski Arts and Crafts Day and the first time we saw her around mile 14 - she looks so good considering how far she'd already run!
The boys were so great, hanging in the sun all day and patiently waiting for Mama, they were marathoners of their own, for sure!

We hoofed it down to the finish line after seeing her at mile 14 and then we waited nervously....

and then the pay-off, there she was! I'm not going to lie, I totally cried and unfortunately my mushiness is preserved forever on this video....but look how victorious she looks, what a rockstar!

Love you guys and so proud of you Judes!

The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire! (ok, not really)

We have a roof! Our good friends Jeff and Judi came into town last weekend with their boys and Jeff's parents and it was amazing to see them. More on that later, this is a quickie house blog update before we head out of town to Nebraska tomorrow.

We dropped by our house in a total unauthorized visit since we went after hours, thus, no swanky hard hats....I felt naked somehow doing the obligatory outside shot - don't tell OSHA.
Just like with Ben and Laura, it was so much fun to show Jeff and Judi around our new house - the next time they come out, it'll be all done! It's especially cool since Jeff is in the biz, he certainly knew a lot of stuff professionally but with all the remodeling Jeff and Judi have done, they're both pro's at this point. Here's Jeff and Rob appearing quite serious, surveying all aspects of the place.

Ok, not so much...
Judi weighs in on it and checks out the bathroom she'll be using next time.
We had some new random graffiti, some work related (but awesomely misspelled, this is supposed to be the xmas TIMER)
and some not so work related:

and who the hell are Cuko and Esteban? They better not have had the lovin in OUR love nest.

I mean, for pete's sakes, somebody already broke in our toilet without our permission. :)

Some new views, the roof from inside in the entry way:
The new back view, it's really starting to look like an actual house!
and finally, we snuck into our neighbor's place across the cul-d-sac (again, you don't say anything to OSHA and I'll automatically forget all the dirt I have on you) to check out their WINDOWS (woot!) and grabbed this shot of our place from theirs: I think our place kicks our next door neighbors' butts. :)

Love you, Jeff and Judes!

The Hoeltings come to town!

For once, a non-house blog post, can you believe it?!?! It was a self-imposed blogging intervention, there's only so much framing and foundation that are interesting to people, methinks. Anyhoo, our good friends from Colorado came to visit the last 2 weekends and we had such a great time visiting with them. It's so neat to see their kiddos grow up before our eyes and to be able to spend so much time with them over the years.

Here's some of the highlights:
The first day we got together with the Hoeltings, we took them to lunch on the beach at one of our favorite Mexican spots.
It was a super chilly and windy day...(Morgan's "cousin It" impression slays me)

...but the kiddos still loved running around the sand and throwing rocks in the ocean. I grabbed a few videos of it, it was too cute. Here's Zach's mad throwing skills, you can hear how crazy the wind was, sounds like our wedding video!:

Now Morgan's turn:

And finally Amanda's turn, she's got quite a pitcher's arm:

Then one day we headed out to Sea World - it's always so fun to see through kid's eyeballs.

Amanda seemed to love interacting with the rays...

...while Zach seemed totally into Moray eels. Some shenanigans:


Elmo ride, Morgan was too cute and was singing the Elmo La la la la song:


The polar bears were too cute, laying in the water and spooning together:

And then finally, another beach day but this time it was glorious weather!

We love you Hoeltings!!! Thanks for coming!!!