Amy's Trip to Colorado.

Amy used to be my partner in crime. We spent every waking moment together for probably five years. But now we're grown ups with families and responsibilities and it had been a while since I got a good dose of Amy. So, I was very excited when she decided to come visit. We hit the ground running as soon as she flew in. Straight from the airport we headed for Denver to go eat lunch with her aunt. On the way home I decided to show her Red Rocks since it's only ten minutes away from where we live...

The Rocks...They're red.
The amphitheater.

We're not quite sure what Bridget was trying to accomplish here. But it looks weird.

After our visit to Red Rocks we dropped Amy's stuff off and headed straight for Downtown Littleton...

We were laughing at Bridget in this picture because she looked like a drunken sailor who only had one eye while taking this picture.

Here we are laughing at Bridget again while she tried to take our picture.

We kept stopping to smell the flowers. We looked pretty strange but we didn't care. They were so beautiful...

The next day we were supposed to wake up early to go white water rafting but Scout had other plans. While I was letting him out to go to the bathroom he cut his foot on the lawn edging and we had to rush him to the vet's office instead. So while we waited for him to get out of surgery we hung out by the pool and read books. It was actually pretty relaxing, well...until we got the vet bill.

So we took a day off and started over again. On Friday we drove the twenty minutes to Idaho Springs to go white water rafting. Amy was so scared she was going to die. It was actually pretty hilarious.

Don't we look good???

After we spent the morning rafting we decided to drive the rest of the way to Breckenridge to do the tourist thing.

Saturday was Amy's last full day with us so I decided to take her to Devil's Head to hike, even though Amy's legs were sore from hanging on to dear life the day before....

She loved it.

The next day we all got in the car, (including Scout) for a road trip to Texas...

Rainy Day...

But Bridget didn't let that stop her.

First Trip to the Farmer's Market.

Every Saturday that we are in town during the summer Bridget and I go to the farmer's market. Bridget loves to pick out which kinds of fruits and veggies we get and sometimes we'll buy lunch. But one thing is for sure. We never forget to stop to smell the flowers.

This is her "Aren't I cute?" face.

Bridget was so excited to see the frog lady was there. Last summer she would beg for a frog and after working for three weeks she had finally saved enough money to buy one, only to find that the frog lady was gone. So I bought her one. They are hollowed out and when you run the wooden stick along it's back it croaks just like a frog. ( It drives Scout nuts.)

And of course every girl has to buy herself some flowers every now and then. Love 'em!

Bridget's First Official Day of Summer.

Yay! The first day of summer!

Doesn't she make a cute little pirate?

We go down this slide about a million times a visit, and we get wedgies every single time.

WE LOVE SUMMER!

Bridget's Last Day of 1st Grade!

Bridget and Samantha the dramtic duo.

Mrs. Casassa's last year at Powderhorn.

The boy with the curly hair is Nathan W. but the name Nathan W. is so last year. In first grade he decided that he wanted to be called Nate. Bridget's had a crush on him since kindergarten. She once told him that she loved him and he shrugged and kept playing basketball. Bridget wasn't upset she just said that he would probably like her in the fourth grade and went completely unphased. (At least she knows how to take rejection.)

This is Jordan one of her best friends. She spent the rest of the day playing at his house. His mom told me that they played Rock Band and they were singing "Livin on a Prayer" by Bon jovi . But Bridget thought they were singing Livin' on the Prairie. She's been all about the Little House on the Prairie books lately.

They ended the day with an ice cream social.

Class Photo: Bridget decided to go for her super model pose. See if you can find her ;)

End of School Carnival

Every year the PTA at Bridget's school puts on a carnival to celebrate the ending of the school year. Bridget loves it and has been looking for it since last year.

Bridget and her friend Nevaeh are laughing at the Principal and the Vice Principle.

They loved the fact that they got so messy.

The face painting lady was amazing! We almost spent half of our time in line so that she could get her face painted.

We had to go out to eat afterwards so that Bridget could show off her kitty cat face.

My official start to summer!

My last final was on May 14th and I celebrated the next day by lying out in the sun and listening to a book on CD while Bridget was at school. The pool wasn't open yet but I wasn't going to let that ruin my plans so I grabbed a towel and headed outside to lie in the thick grass. My weirdo neighbor was out back invading my oasis. (He has a habit of wearing daisy dukes as he crawls around in the grass talking to his five cats.) I didn't feel like listening to what kind of diet he has his cats on so I settled in front on the building next to ours. I spritzed on some sun tan oil and fell asleep to the sound of my book enjoying the cool breeze and feeling the humidity float off of the grass. I woke up to find myself covered in all kinds of bugs that had drowned in my sweat. But it didn't matter. It was a perfectly relaxing start to the summer, something I needed after a tough semester.