Back in June I cut 14 inches off my hair to donate to the Locks of Love foundation. Here is a picture of me before I cut my hair and a picture of what it looks like now.

Zane participated in the 2nd Annual Armed Forces Memorial Match Shoot in May. Amber, the kids and I went to watch the boys on Sunday. It is held at the Colorado Rifle Club in Byers. Zane shot with open sights (which means he did not use a scope) and competed against a team of Marine’s. I was able to go down into the pits where the targets are during part of the match. This was a very neat experience and I am thinking about competing with Zane next year!

Here are the names of those honored at the memorial:

Here is Zane shooting. This was the 1000 yard shoot.

Here is Brian shooting. You can see the targets off in the distance.

This is a picture of Danny Dietz trophy. Each trophy is handmade and is personalized to each soldier’s story.

This is a picture of the Marine team that won the match that Zane competed in.

Barrett and Kyla found enjoyment in filling up this bottle with dirt.

The sunset was so beautiful on our drive back into Denver. This picture was taken while in motion!

We attended Matt & Amy’s wedding on May 14. Matt is a 4 wheeling buddy of ours, actually we bought our Jeep wrangler from him. We saw Matt before the ceremony and he looked so nervous, but yet you could tell he was so happy!

This first picture Zane took while holding the camera in the aisle. I did the settings and then handed him the camera since he was at the end of the aisle.

In April we got together at my mom’s house with Kurt & Kai, Joseph, Sarah, Adrianna & Alicia. I think this is the first time we have gotten a picture of the cousins together.

I have badly needed to do some updating on this blog. We went to Moab back in April with some friends. We were able to go without the kids!! We had such a good time and the weather was probably just right.

Here are some pictures from Easter. Kyla received a palm at church and didn’t want to let it go. I made her dress last year when she was the flower girl in our friend’s wedding, and my mom added some silk embroidery to it (flowers on the collar and butterfly’s on the bottom). I took a close up picture of one of the butterfly’s. I still need to try to take a more formal picture, but I have been waiting for Barrett’s face to clear up a bit more (which it has, so maybe I will get to it this week).

We went to my parents house for dinner and also decorated cookies! Kyla learned the story of Jesus’s Resurrection at church and was so excited to share it with her visual aids.

The Easter Bunny even came to our house to deliver the kids baskets!!

To look at all the pictures just click on the picture below!

My mom and I went to Garden of the Gods back in the beginning of April. It was a beautiful day, but I left my camera at home because my battery was dead and I was having a hard time finding the charger. So, I took these pictures with my dad’s camera!

We didn’t have time to hike around, so we ended up driving around and had a picnic at one of the stops! We will need to go back to do more hiking.

Kyla and her rocks that Grandma got her!

Kyla took this picture of Me!

Here is a shot of Pikes Peak from the visitor’s center.

Kissing Camels from the visitor’s center.

View from the driver’s seat!!

Still catching up!! Back in March my sweet mom came and watched the kids so I could go snowshoeing with several ladies in my ward! We didn’t really know how great the snow would be and how far we were going to have to drive to get to good snow. But it had snowed the night before and snowed all day while we were out. We went up US-40 to Jones Pass. On our way home we decided to stop in Idaho Springs and enjoy Beaujo’s, which is the best Beaujo’s in CO!!

Here are a few pictures of our outing. The spots on the picture of us looking down at the camera are snowflakes.

We met up with friends at the Children’s Museum in March. I didn’t take many pictures, but got a few of Barrett and one of Kyla!

Sara, Max, and Miles came to visit us for a few days back in March! It was so nice outside that we had lunch at the park. Barrett was really interested in the Squirrels and kept trying to chase them. Max and Kyla are 6 months apart and are great friends. As we were walking back to the vehicle they were holding hands and I thought it was too cute!

This is Miles

This is Max