Feburary

14 days of love to start of Feburary off.  Love this tradition and the focus to be more kind. 

Heart attacking family and friends, Thank you notes, random act of kindness, leaving kind notes around school/work, love shacks with friends, valentines at assisted living center, and much more.

Valentines Day - 

Love my valentines do much.

Super Bowl fun.  Animals have deciced!

We had a fun evening at a friends house watching the game.

Valentines happened to fall on our date night - that days letter B.  B for Boot Scoot n' Boogie.

And Baskin Robbins

Lots of hiking and enjoying Colorado

 Palmer Lake Reservoir 

Then Paint Mines on a day off.  

We will have to go again when there is no snow.

More snow which means more sledding.  I need to get some tubes, they work way better.

Another fun day in the snow.

Getting the things I love back into my life.  Thankful the YW asked if I could teach Mixxedfit.

Then deciding to keep it going.  We got a beautiful day so we danced outside!

Soccer with friends!

Bruises to prove its back in my life ;)

Another date night - C for cupakes and cinema watching Captain America

A winning weekend...

Clifton's youth group won the stake basketball championship

McKay got 4th in National Honor Day presentation at Colorado Springs University

Of course we needed to get ice cream to celebrate.

More making this house our home.  But in a cat room under our stairs in the basement.

Cat approved!

January 2025

 For Christmas Alex got me a gift of an adventure.  Since my mom was here we snuck away to Mt Princeton and enjoyed the hot springs and hiking.

It was absolutely beautiful! Such a fun experience to be freezing outside but sitting in a hot springs next to a river.  Loved it!

Celebrating Stanley on his birthday!  Went to play at Slick City and Red Robin for dinner.  It was a fun day!  

Can't believe he is ten.

Clifton also got a Christmas present that was an experience.  We got to go to a Nuggets NBA game.

He is getting harder and harder to buy for but he loves anything sports.

Enjoying show Grandma more of the beauty and fun of Colorado.

Hiking the Garden of the Gods.  Then we got snow the last day of winter break so of course we had to get out and enjoy it.

Then warm up by the fire making s'mores.

Back to school and work life after the holidays...

Doing the drive way clearing together.

Friday fun days!  

Church ball for Clifton

Working on things around the house.  A new cat door.  Cats love it, Rufus, well he wishes he could come downstairs with the cats.

A boy and his dog enjoying winter days.

Then we got an arctic freeze!  

Having fun with the freeze.

It sure is beautiful!

Getting to work out with my girl while school was canceled.

Taking advantage of free Saturdays and enjoying a beautiful hike.

Can't get enough of the Colorado beauty, plus a nice 50 degree day after that freeze felt wonderful.

Alex and I started to jazz up our dating and time together.  So this year we started ABC dating, each time taking turns with a letter from the alphabet.  Starting with letter A - Axe Throwing and Apple Bees.

We also had a party for Stanley.  We invited everyone - not knowing who would show up.  We couldn't have been happier.  He was surrounded by lots of friends he had just met.  

Thankful for being willing to have fun and celebrate Stanley.