A party in heaven for Sydney!

Happy belated Easter from our family! In typical Colorado fashion, it was about 70 degrees the day before Easter, and we awoke on Easter morning to snow on the ground (and in the air!) A good reminder of Him washing us "white as snow."
This past Saturday, May 16th, was a most important day for Miss Sydney. On our way to Katie's soccer tournament, running late no less, Syd announces that, "today I think I'd like to ask Jesus into my heart." Super!!!!!!!!!!! So we prayed at the Gates Soccer Complex, that Jesus would love Sydney forever, forgive her sins, never leave her, and give her eternal life. The angels were having a party for her in heaven! We celebrated with our very own "come to Jesus" cake, fresh from the Target bakery, lovingly picked out by big sister Katie.
Back to Easter. Lance was gone the week leading up to Easter, so one our super-fun afternoon activities was to dye and paint our very own Easter eggs! Everyone got in on the fun, even little man!
The final products. Remember the days when the only option was to buy the PAAS dye kits? They have so many COOL options for kids these days. We had marbled eggs & glitter eggs, and all of them got custom paint jobs.

There's no place like home!

I just had one of those incredible opportunities to take a last minute trip with Lance to London. Since things went so smoothly last year we decided that I could go for a full week. I was fine until Mother's Day, missing my kids so much! The girls did great and supposedly Will only asked for me a few times. :) Since I just got back last night, my system is all screwed up and I couldn't sleep past 5:30 this morning. Ugh. So, I am glad to be home and as soon as Lance gets home (he had to stay longer for work,) I will have access to the many fun pictures we took and can share some of the highlights with you. Probably not as historical as last year (I know you are so disappointed!) but we did see some pretty cool stuff. Thanks for your prayers...

Palm Sunday

"The next day the great crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was on His way to Jerusalem. They took palm branches and went out to meet Him, shouting, 'Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the King of Israel!'" John 12:12-13

All Boy

Over spring break our family went skiing. Well, everyone skied except for Will. He did, however, get in on the fun of trying on the gear. I think he looks pretty cool!

Our friend Carly celebrated her 3rd birthday this past week with a party at Chuck E Cheese. Will was in heaven. Especially since he got to ride the monster truck with his buddy Eli.

When I was pregnant with Will my friend Debbie always told me about her son's love of Thomas the Train. I simply did not get it. However, I now have a little boy of my own who eats, sleeps, and breathes Thomas. Watching the show on television is like watching paint dry. But I will admit that we have lots of fun building our tracks, "crashing" them, and building them back up again.

We celebrated in a dive.

This past week we celebrated our 9th year of marital bliss. Many, many months ago I, with Lance's permission, purchased us tickets on said date, to see Phantom at the Buell. Super excited. The bad news is that Lance ended up being out of town and missed the festivities. The good news is that my wonderful friend, Sue, was able to spend the evening in awe with me--it was a fabulous performance! The 2nd part of the good news is that we finally got to celebrate our anniversary together yesterday, when I surprised Lance with a trip to Skyventure Colorado, where we did some indoor skydiving. It has been on our "to do" list for a long time and it did not disappoint. I'm including a short video of our absolutely crazy instructor, Dan, who mesmerized us all with his acrobatics!