New nephew - Joshua

On April 30th, my sister, Becky, had a healthy, beautiful baby boy, Joshua Duncan Wilcox! We made the 18 hour drive, round trip, to visit them over Memorial Day weekend. It was so fun to see him, so tiny and perfect. Eric and Becky took us into Teton National Park where we had a picnic and tried to spot grizzly bears, to no avail. We did see elk, buffalo, moose, and a very large beaver! We also took Joshua to his first major motion film, Indiana Jones. He slept through the entire movie, but Eric was proud to say that Indiana Jones was the first movie his son went to! We had a wonderful time cuddling with Joshy, eating yummy steak, and playing Mario Kart.

Summer Weekends

Well life has been busy, but I'm finally updating our blog! Dan only has 2 more Saturdays off before he'll have to start working them again (sniff, sniff). So we're cramming everything you could do in Colorado for a summer, into 4 weekends! First we volunteered and participated in the "Walk for MS" at a park in downtown C. Springs. Dan's mom has had MS (multiple sclerosis) for about 27 years and this is our way of raising awareness to the disease and funding for research. If you'd like to learn more yourself, or participate in an event like we did, please click here. Then we took Diesel to a dog park that had a creek running through it, which he loved to splash in! It was his first time at a dog park and he really enjoyed the freedom to "bond" with other dogs and chase them around without being reprimanded!

The following weekend we drove up to Denver for a session at the temple and made our way to the Denver Botanical Gardens. The tropical green house was my favorite, although extremely humid, they had a variety or orchids... my favorite! The weather was beautiful and the gardens were amazing! Even more amazing were the surrounding neighborhoods! They were as picture perfect as they come. Although way out of our reach, it's always nice to dream!

The same weekend as Denver took us to Fort Collins, Horsetooth Lake. It wasn't quite what we expected, but we had fun throwing sticks for Diesel to swim out and catch and napping on the beach!

Then came Memorial Day weekend... see slide show above!