Family Pictures

Family Pictures
Julie recently took our family pictures, and I absolutely love how they turned out!!!

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Spring Fever

I've got it! Spring fever is out in full force at the McClurg house. I would love nothing better than to be able to leave the windows open and let in the cool mountain air all day. But, that dang snow on the ground makes the air a little too chilly to leave them open too long. It's supposed to be in the 50's today, which is warm to me!!! Hopefully it will melt the snow and help melt away the crabbiness that I've had for the last two months. I counting on the spring to lighten my mood, brighten my home and bring nothing but good for Ben and the entire jobsite. Hopefully we can put the long hard winter behind us and start moving forward in a positive way.

1 comments:

J.R. and Michelle said...

I am completely in a spring cleaning mode... especially with us moving in a few weeks. I feel like I always want to be organizing, and getting things in order. I love having the windows open!

Confused for the Holidays

So I find myself sitting here this week and wondering what on earth we're going to do for the holidays this year. As much as I love it in Colorado, I can't help but want to be home for Christmas.

For those of you who don't know, Ben is getting us a dog and we should be able to pick him up on Dec. 27th. This throws a kink in our Christmas plans because we need to decide very quickly whether we're staying here or going home. If we go to Utah, we'd have to leave the day after to get the puppy. If we stay, we miss out on spending time with our families, which is my favorite part of Christmas. Our other option is to go to Utah, and have Ben fly back to pick up the puppy and then catch a flight back to Salt Lake with our newest member.

For any normal person, this would not be an issue, but for the world's most indecisive person, its a big deal.

If anyone has any brilliant suggestions, let me know.

July in Colorado

July has come and gone and it was a very busy month. Along with the holidays, we also had Ben and Landon's birthdays. We celebrated Ben's up in the mountains. It was a quiet birthday, but Ben was where he is happiest.

Landon had all of his friends over and had pizza, cake and ice cream. It was anything but quiet! He had a lot of fun and there were enough kids here that it felt like being home in Utah:)

Here a just a few pictures from the month!

Yeomen Park, Colorado

Yeomen Park, Colorado
Isn't it beautiful?

This was the view from our tent door. It was nice to wake up and to be able to look out over the whole area.

Our tent was nestled under a bunch of trees and right up next to this huge boulder. It stayed nice and warm at night.

Brett thought he was gonna get a free ride if he stayed there long enough.

Just like Daddy!

Just like Daddy!
Brett is Ben's little shadow, and on this day, he found Ben's work gear.

Landon's Birthday Party!

Landon\

This is Lando's birthday cake. It was much cuter until I left it sitting on top of the hot oven.

Landon blowing out the candles

Time for presents:)

A new state puzzle. Go figure!

This is Landon's new telescope. He was so excited!

The Day after!!

The Day after!!
Landon got sidewalk paint from his friends Carter, Audrey and Lydia. They came over the next day to help him play with it. And as I was told by a neighbor afterwards, it looked like Nickelodeon blew up on my sidewalk!

They thought it was fun to paint with their feet!

I think Landon might be part Smurf.

Girls Night!

Girls Night!
I don't know what I would do without amazing friends! They always seem to be there when you need them the most.

More pics from our girls night!

More pics from our girls night!

I told you we were dorks!

Don't you wish you had a cool Sea World Lunch Box!

The Air up Here!!

The Air up Here!!
Independence Pass, CO 12,095ft ! The mountains above us are 14,000+ !

Snow covered mountains in June? Yes, its true!

Independence Pass, 12,095 ft.

Independence Pass, 12,095 ft.
This is the only picure we got with the kids. They got too cold and wanted to get back in the van!

This is Ben and I in front of Twin Lakes, CO. It was so beautiful here. The water was so blue and pristine.

Here's proof that Amy and I aren't always weird.

Did you say Dinosaurs???

We went to the dinosaur park with my mom, Liz, and her kids, and boy did we have fun. Adam is a HUGE dinosaur fan and this was like heaven to him. The only time he didn't have fun was when he saw the robotic dinosaur. It kinda freaked him out!

Wouldn't you get scared, too??

We're not scared!!

Brett was such a good boy. He didn't get to run around with the other kids, but he sure had fun watching!!

There's too much to look at to hold still, mom!

Who said moms can't have fun?

Who said moms can\

Don't sit on me!!!

Don\
The kids( and yes, it was totally the kids) thought it would make a cute picture if we tried to stop the dinosaur from sitting on us!
All in all, we had so much fun. The kids ask me all the time when they can go back to the Dinosaur Park. I definately think that next time we're in Utah, that will be one of our stops! We'll just have to bring Ben next time to protect us!

Easter Fun!!

Easter Fun!!
The boys had so much fun this year!

Once they woke up, that is.

Snow Days

Snow Days
These pictures are from when we took the kids sledding behind a snowmobile. They had so much fun. Good thing they like snow:)

Holding two kids on top of you while you're flying through the snow going 20mph, gives you a great ab workout. Too bad we can't go sledding every day.

I made it!!

I made it!!
Landon was so happy that he made it to the top of this snow mountain. He had to climb up about 6 1/2 feet of snow to get to the top.