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Sunday, September 14, 2008

This is for Makenna

Last weekend when Makenna came out for my birthday she made good friends with our cats, sam and delilah. We "adopted" Sam and Dee from Josh's parents because they thought they had too many animals in their house. Plus, I just fell in love with them cause they are so cute. Makenna had so much fun playing with them last weekend and having them come sleep in the bed with her. The first night she was here she woke up in the middle of the night and the first thing she said was, "Where are the cats?" Here is some pictures of Sammy and Dee for Kenna to see.


Fat Sammy





Dee likes to hide

Dee watching the squirrels outside

Monday, September 8, 2008

The best birthday present

So, I'm sitting at home this last Friday after work, it's a rainy day and I got all cuddled up on the couch in a blanket waiting for Josh to get home from work at any minute. I put in a movie and about 10 minutes later i hear a knock at the door. I'm kinda wondering why in the world Josh would be knocking at the door but I'm not expecting anyone else. I think about it for a few seconds and then go to the door and hear a knock again. I decide to open it. When I open the door I see my adorable niece Makenna standing there with her suitcase, Josh with a camera and my mom standing there smiling. I don't do surprises so I am in complete shock because I have no idea that my niece was going to be coming to visit me. When I finally realized what was going on, I could not be more excited. I miss my niece so much and it's so hard being away from her. We are best buds and I love every minute I get to be around her. My mom knows this so by birthday present to me was to bring my niece up to see me. It was so awesome and so much fun having her here for the weekend. On Saturday we went to the Downtown Aquarium in Denver which I have been wanting to go to all summer long but Josh has been holding me off so that we could go with Makenna. Well, since that didn't take all day, we could see Six Flags from the Aquarium and Makenna said that she wanted to go there. So, we headed over to Six Flags for the rest of the day and had so much fun. Makenna went on the Ferris Wheel and the Rapid ride and got soaked but she just laughed about it. We had to take them back to the airport on Sunday so Makenna could get back to school on Monday. But having them here this weekend was the best birthday present I could ask for and I actually had no idea that it was coming. Thank you so much Mom and Sherman for doing this for me. I'm so thankful that Josh was nice enough to sleep on the couch so that Makenna and I could have a slumber party together for a couple nights.



Leaving Six Flags after a long day





Makenna loved the Choo Choo

She was dying to get her face painted...of course I gave in

Nonie hates the Ferris Wheel...Kenna thought she was a scaredy cat!



HAHA...this was hilarious





Uncle Josh helping shoot some kids with a foam ball





First ride on the Ferris Wheel...she wasn't scared at all







Looking under the fish tank





We were looking at Six Flags through this thing

Hanging out at home

Kenna chasing the bubbles

Chillin with Bruce



She's a scuba diver

Josh's B-Day

It was Josh's B-day on September 1st which was also Labor Day which means that we had the day off of work...YEA. Since our birthdays are only about a week apart, we celebrated both our birthdays with Josh's family on Labor Day. We went over to Mom and Dad Riewerts house on Sunday night and spent all night playing Rock Band which Eric brought over. That game is awesome. We played for hours until we decided that we should probably go to bed since we were getting up early to go hiking in the morning. Got up that morning and headed out to the Rocky Mountain National Park. We went on a beautiful hike and then went back into Estes Park to have a picnic. When we got back to Mom and Dad's we had dinner later that night and celebrated our birthday's. We had so much fun being able to spend the whole day and celebrate with our family.


My monkey





I made friends with a chipmunk again.









The whole crew






Camping with friends

So a couple weekends ago we decided to take a last minute camping trip with our friends Casey and Christa. Luckily we still had a lot in the explorer from the last camping trip because we never cleaned it out so we just got all of our things together Friday after work. Casey and Josh both happened to have the day off early so they went up and found our camping spot and set up camp and then Christa and I met up with them later that night in Estes Park. It was a nice relaxing fun weekend with friends. Too bad it's getting cold and camping season is just about over now.









White Water Rafting

So I haven't been updating this thing very much the last few weeks even though a lot has been going on. A few weeks ago my mom and stepdad Sherman came for a visit here in Colorado to get away from the heat of Arizona. Josh and I both had to work a few of the days they were here so they were off house hunting because they love it here so much that they are considering moving here within the next few years. The best part about the trip was that we went down to Canon City which is by Colorado Springs to go on a White Water Rafting trip. We had all never been before so we took the easy route but we still had a blast doing it. I can't wait for next summer to go again and maybe try some even bigger rapids.