Jadeyn's Party!!!

Jadeyn's Fifth Birthday Party

Five boys, Legos galore, light sabers, room to run in, cake full of sugar, helpless balloon decorations...what could be more fun!?!?!  Jadeyn's birthday party was a complete success!!

 The Jedi Warriors:

Jadeyn

Finnegan

Ben

Luke

Ryan

The Denver Children's Museum

The Denver Children's Museum
We usually venture out the Denver Zoo to celebrate Jadeyn's birthday, but since we had recently been there, we mixed things up a bit and explored the Denver Children's Museum with his cousins: Austin and Chloe.  Wow, what a place of fun and discovery.  I honestly thing that Kevin and I could have spend a few more hours in the bubble room.  That place was sweet!!  Here are some of the fun pictures!

Snowy April

Sunshine and short sleeves one day, winter coats and snowmen the next!  It has been one snowy April so far with scattered magnificently beautiful spring days.

So, this storm that was predicted, actually delivered.  We got dumped on!!! The spring time that we had been enjoying, disappeared and we got more snow than we had the entire winter!!  It was beautiful though, and me and Jadeyn decided to take full advantage of it!  After school Jadeyn asked his typical question: mom, can we go to the Castle Park?  Not a single other kid or parent was going to brave the 8 inches that had fallen already, but we did.  We walked to the pristine park where not a single footprint had marred the beautiful snow, and then we proceeded to destroy it!  Jadeyn stomped on or swatted all the “marshmellows” and slid down the snow covered slides into a huge pile of snow.  It was great!  We played for an hour.  Home, drop both our clothes in the dryer and warm up with hot chocolate!

Jadeyn is a great shoveller.  His shovel may not travel in a straight line, but it eventually gets to the end of our huge driveway. 

We built an awesome Stegosaurus in the back yard complete with green food coloring! Jadeyn was so proud! We also shoveled a lot of the snow from the deck onto the steps and made a sweet slide for him!  Once again, our clothes went in the dryer and Jadeyn warmed up this time in the bathtub.

Spring Projects!

 Spring Projects
Springtime always brings all sorts of around the house and yard projects, but moving into a new home, I think the projects have quadrupled!  We have enjoyed every second of the yard work, including the spring clean-out in a yard four times the size of our old one.  The massive decorative grasses were an education to cut back, but Jadeyn loved "romping in the hay!"


At our old house we had 21 rose bushes and I think that was the hardest thing to leave behind...so...we spent a weekend doing the massive spring clean-out and trim back of all the rose bushes for the renters and dug up five bushes to bring back to the new place!  Pretty nice of us, I must say since it really is a lot of work and takes a bit of skill to get to know the bushes and the renters didn't even have to do it!

We planted a nice little garden in the corner by Jadeyn's playground.  Beans, Peas, Carrots and Cantaloupe!  We'll see how they do, but check out the concentration on our little gardener's face! 

We even fixed some of the stone with some handy masonry skills!

Oh, what else? Cleaning the window was quite the project.  We still haven't gotten to all 54 (I think), but check out this one.  Early one morning we heard a resonating thud!  Here's the poor birds perfect print that he left on the window!  Not body was found, so we like to think that he survived! Here are the poor cats trying to find some normalcy in all the chaos!

 And yes, some of our tulips actually survived the multiple massive snow storms that tried to hold them back!

Did still found time to have a blast with each of the snow storms and they really were doozies!