Casa Bonita!

This restaurant is crazy huge and lots of fun. We used to go there whenever people came to visit. It is a total tourist attraction. It took some convincing to get my parents to go there again. The food is less than desirable, but the entertainment is great for the kids. They have a waterfall with divers jumping off, little skits, a mariachi band, a spook alley, puppet show, pinata, etc, etc...

We had lots of fun. Here are a few pics.

Marci and Dan enjoying the authentic Mexican food (ha, ha).

Ryan watching the divers.

Marci had a good time flirting with the diver. He was a character.

John entering the scary spook alley with Chloe.

Wow, Ryan is protective of his candy. Evan tried to get what he could before the big kids gathered it all up.

Casa Bonita has tons of different levels and themed areas to eat. In the bottom there is a mine. Upstairs is the rain forest. There is a lot to see.

It's official. Introducing. . .

Dr. Mark D. Young, M.D.
I am so glad that we were able to go to my brother's graduation. We are so proud of him and all he has accomplished. It was extra special because my dad (who has a doctorate in Chemistry) was able to hood Mark.

Before the "hooding"

Mark, taking the oath, where he promises he won't try and kill anyone on purpose. Or something like that. :)
Mark and Karissa have been very busy since they have been married. Last year Karissa graduated from law school, then Mark graduated from medical school and two weeks after this Karissa got her LLM in tax law. Crazy kids!
Our family now has four doctorates: My dad, PhD in Chemistry, John, JD in law, Karissa, JD in law and Mark, M.D. So proud of all of them!

Swimming at the hotel.

Chloe isn't exactly a fan of swimming yet. We're going to have to work on that this summer. Notice the nice sunburn. Poor baby! Her mother forgot that when it is cloudy in Colorado you can still get fried.

Evan is finally getting over his fear of the water. He had lots of fun playing in the pool with Daddy and Ryan.

Major belly flop.

Colorado: Bronco Mania

Our first day in Colorado we went to Invesco field. They have a little museum where the kids and John had lots of funny trying out some pro football gear. We also got to go into the United Airlines luxury box. It was very cool. It is only $175,000 dollars a year with a five year commitment to have such great seats. After our mini tour we headed to the Bronco store and got some t-shirts and such. That evening the rest of the family from(I hate to say from, I'll say currently residing in) Utah arrived. It was fun to see everyone and have our entire family together.

Workin hard

John has been working hard to get our yard in shape for summer. There is a lot to do. Unfortunately the weeds still grow during the winter. We still have some work to do in the back before we can get bark dust. Evan loves to help his daddy work. Now that Ryan is older he has taken over lawn mowing duties. He is working on straight lines and not leaving patches of grass unmowed. He should be a pro by the end of the summer. I think I am actually going to try and grow some tomatoes this year. It will be a first for me since John and I have been married. Growing up my parents always had a huge garden and so did John's family. I guess I always felt we didn't have room. No excuses this year. We will start with tomatoes and see where that takes us.

A day in the life . . .

. . . of Chloe

Ripping things out of all the kitchen cupboards. Then gets bored and moves onto the . . .

. . . desk drawers. She loves to throw all the discs out of the drawers. After that she usually gets in the bottom drawer and plays with the camera and video camera.

She is very determined and every time you pull her away and clean it up she is right back in there. She will go back and back and back. I am learning that she may be my most stubborn child, which is scary since the other two are pretty stubborn. I have no idea where they got that from. I'm trying to remember to enjoy each stage because I feel so sad as they grow. I am already sad she isn't a baby anymore.

Enjoyin' the weather

I debated whether I should include this picture since it looks like Evan is giving the bird. He's not, I zoomed in to make sure. When I enlarged the picture, after declaring it unoffensive, I noticed a spider on poor Chloe's arm. Yikes!

We've had some nice spring weather days between the chilly rainy ones. The kids have enjoyed playing outside after being cooped up all winter. Can't wait for summer.