Biker Chick

Mountain biking, that is! Carli started mountain biking with Chad this weekend!! On Friday afternoon she biked Kessel and Saturday afternoon she biked Rustlers. She did AWSUM!! She had a couple wrecks on Friday and they made her "a little worried", but Saturday she jumped on and rode with no problems! Chad is so proud! He is excited that they can go out and ride together. Mountain biking has become one of his favorite hobbies. We are spoiled living here because we have great friends who are always up for getting out and having fun! Now Regan wants to learn to ride without training wheels so she can go with them! (I want to go too!) We are so happy our girls love to be outdoors and spend time as a family! Maybe in a few years we'll have a bunch of "biker chicks"! :)
Chad coming in
Carli before the ride

Carli coming in...doesn't she look so tiny!? Carli after the ride...look at that smile!
One cute mountain biker!

What's up?

For those of you who have been wondering lately, "Where is Mindy?" "Why hasn't she made any comments on my blog?" "Why hasn't she done her hair this week?" "Does she always wear dirty clothes?" let me explain...I decided last week, spur of the moment, that I was going to paint my table and chairs. Why I chose the week of Easter (and many other activites) to do it, I don't know. I LOVE the finished product, but it was quite the undertaking. After days of sanding, hours of painting, days to dry and more hours of sealing, I am ready for this project to be done!! AND it's not! I still have to finish the leaf for the table and I'm searching for two more chairs to buy/sand/paint. My family is happy to have a table back after a week and I am happy it's almost done. Now it's time to start curtains! :)

Happy "Keaster"

Hope you all had a great Easter holiday with your families. Mollie kept calling it "Keaster" which we laughed at. Carli wanted to know why we were laughing, we told her, and "Happy Keaster" was used for the rest of the day! :) Such funny kids! We missed all of our extended family (it was our first Easter with just our immediate family) and we had a wonderful day together celebrating the holiday and talking of its true meaning. It makes us so happy to know that our girls are gaining a knowledge of their Savior and His sacrifice for them. Happy Easter!! We had fun coloring Easter eggs...too bad it only takes about 5 minutes to color a dozen and a half eggs!

The girls after church...they thought they were the luckiest girls in the world to get new skirts!

I'm not sure what Regan is doing with this crazy smile...but it sure made us laugh!

Our little freckle-faced girl...she is growing up so fast! She thought it was so funny to say that the "Keester Bunny" came to our house!
Crazy Mollie LOVED Easter this year...two is such a fun age! She also loved finding/hiding Easter eggs!

The morning "loot". Their favorite was the new clothes/bracelets...definately girls!
The girls each wanted a turn to hide the eggs...they couldn't get enough!

Silly Sunday

After church, we were getting changed and making a sidedish to take to a friends house for dinner, when we noticed the girls had gotten out the vacuum. "What are you doing?" I asked. They informed me that they were saying their talks and bearing their testimony into the "microphone" (the vacuum handle was the microphone) ...how clever!! This just gave us a little
giggle and hope it gave you a little smile too!

ps-I bet our girls are the only ones that say their thankful for "Hannah Montana" and "High School Musical" :)

*DISCLAIMER*

As for the new "moment" on the side, we just want you all to know that we don't know HOW our children have been so brainwashed because it surely wasn't from us. We aren't even sure WHEN this indoctrination occurred because the election has been over for months. We apologize to anyone who may have taken offense and accept no responsibility for the comments that come from our children. If you have any problems, please feel free to contact our lawyer at 1-800-NOBAMA

Spring or Not Spring...

That is the question! Spring Break was fun, but cold one day and warm the next. Such crazy weather up here in Colorado; I'm still not used to it! We had some exciting things happen this past week I thought I'd share: To start our SB, we took our free camper (yes, it was free) out to Highline Lake Campground for it's maiden voyage! A bunch of friends came out and went fishing and had dinner with us (thanks guys!) BUT it was FREEZING!! Cold air wasn't even the worst part...it was SO windy! We survived a night with rain, hail, and snow :)

Isn't she a beaut? Hey, it was free

The day after our camping adventure Chad started a new job. Don't worry, we still have Daring Hardscapes for those of you in need of any tile or granite work, but with the economy in the state it's in, we decided to make sure we had a steady income. He is working for a construction company here in town and his current project is the VA Hospital. So far, he is enjoying it and is happy to be using his degree. I also started teaching piano lessons. I haven't taught since moving to Colorado over 2 years ago, but the time is finally right! The girls are big enough that they aren't a "distraction" while teaching and I can devote myself to my students...I already have 6 and I am really loving it!

Apparently I need to teach MY kids...should I tell them

they're playing a cookbook?We DID have some nice days and they were spent with friends at various parks, hiking and riding bikes. One day we had friends come to our house to play and the kids found that the hose and our garden spot make a GREAT mud hole...all I can say is that childhood should be fun, right? Sorry again for the mud Darcy :)

Was she eating it? Probably.

We also had some days that were so cold, all we could do was stay inside and relax. Regan LOVES her pajamas and LOVES movies/TV so she thoroughly enjoyed our "PJ Day".
Another exciting event is the selling of my car. If you want to hear a crazy story, call me and I'll tell you :) Now that SB is over, it is warming up and we have great "playing outside" weather. Poor Carli, stuck at school! The next question is...Is the cold weather going to come back!?

Little Lessons

Soccer starts for both girls this week. Since this is Regan's first time playing and Carli has played before, Carli apparently felt impressed to teach Regan how to prepare for her first practice. I was making dinner while the girls were out in the backyard. The windows were open to enjoy the beautiful weather and I heard their little soccer lesson...Carli made her do warm-ups and said things like, "Okay, now let's hustle" and "Keep it up". She taught her how to touch her toes to the ball and how to kick the ball while running. My favorite part was when she said, "Regan, the most important thing is to push. You have to get in there and hit. Like this..." She proceeded to stand in front of Regan and throw her elbow back at Regan's chest/throat. "Now, show me." Regan did the same thing back to Carli. "Good job, I think you're ready for soccer." They were so intense with their preparations they didn't notice me watching (or laughing), I even took these pictures without them knowing. The lesson I got from watching this: "It's the little things that matter most"