Fun Times

So it has been a long time since our last blog, so we will try to get everything into this blog that has happened throughout the last month and a half. At the beginning of August, Matt's sister was in town and we went to Tiny Town, The North Pole, and Water World. It was definitely a fun trip and always great to see Lori. Those pictures will have to get added later because we don't have them on this computer.

As August progressed we came to Thomas' birthday which was very fun as well. We had a birthday dinner for Tom and had an ice cream sandwich cake. I can't believe how old these kids are getting... Thomas is a High Schooler now, Just Crazy.

At the beginning of September, Matt went on another ride along, this time with Aurora Police and it was the first ride along that he actually got to see an arrest take place and take someone to jail. It was pretty fun, just makes me want to be a police officer all the more.

Labor Day weekend we went to Lake McConaughy with Dan, Courtney, Tommy, Kimmy, and Lizzy. We met everyone else up there Saturday afternoon because we had to get the food for the weekend. I was very happy to have my CR-V so I could drive right up to the tents and drop stuff off, unlike Dan who got the van stuck in the sand and had to walk from the parking lot to the tents. Pretty funny stuff, not going to lie. Here is a picture of us by the campfire.

The next amount of fun was Mom Lukens Birthday. Us and Dan and Courtney went over while she was in church and cleaned the house and cooked dinner for her. It was a really great time and she was very shocked when they got home. Now, if we can just find a way for the kids to get along at least on people's birthday's that will be good. Here is a family picture taken by the missionaries.

Stay tuned for future blogs of Matt's Birthday, coming up on Wednesday. Also THE BIG SECRET will be announced very soon and we will blog about the reactions we get once we tell everyone. Matt has to have surgery to have his tonsils removed, and those will be some pictures you won't want to miss. That's all for now.

New Rules at the New Lake

So, for the last few weekends, we have been going to a lake up in Northern Broomfield and swimming there. Up until today, there have never been any signs about no swimming so we have swam across the lake, played with logs, had little rafts out there. Heck, we even took the dogs and they went swimming. Molly and Liberty LOVED this lake. Well, today when we got there, we saw the BRAND NEW, No swimming signs, so what did we do, we jumped in anyways. We went to the dock that we jump off of and started playing around. It was not long until there was a Broomfield Police Officer there telling us we can't swim. I guess it was fun while it lasted, just stinks that we can't have any fun unless we choose to pay for that fun... HELLO, we are in a recession, who has money to pay to have fun, I guess we will see if we can find some new form of free fun. Quite disappointing I must say.

1 Years Old Together

That's right, this past week, our marriage turned 1 year old. It seems like yesterday we were saying I Do in the Butterfly Pavilion, but in all actuality it was a year ago. Crazy how time flies. So, for our Anniversary, Julia and I took a trip to Beautiful Estes Park, Colorado. Although Julia is in a cast, we still had a fantastic time. We got some really beautiful pictures on our way home because we came the long way home through Grand Lake and over Trail Ridge Road. I know it was our Anniversary, but we did not get any pictures of us together mainly because we did not carry the camera too much because Julia was crutching around and Matt was carrying other things for her. Here are some pictures of the scenery that we saw coming over Trail Ridge Road.

One of the things we did was visit the Historical Stanley Hotel and took their Ghost Tour. You may remember the Stanley Hotel from the Movie The Shining. We watched the Mini-Series of The Shining, written by Stephen King the night before we went to the Ghose Tour. It was a pretty cool tour, and the coolest thing was that you could actually feel the presence of the ghosts around you. Our tour guides name was Scary Mary, and if you ever take this tour, make sure you request her. She is the supervisor of the Ghost Tour and she REALLY knows her stuff. She turns a normal hour and a half tour into closer to a two hour tour. I'm not going to give you too much detail about the tour just in case you ever want to go take it, I don't wanna give anything away. But just take a look at some of the pictures and see if you see anything weird in them. We noticed as we were looking at them that some of them had bright spots in different places. You will see on the second picture that there seems like there was an extremely bright light where I took the picture, but there was no light and my flash did not go off. Here are those pictures. Very cool tour. And by the way, there is even part of the tour specifically for the kids, so they would love it as well. A couple of the pictures did not actually come out, although there was plenty of light, they just came out pitch Black. Some crazy things happen in that hotel. But we had a great time. Hope you all can go check it out sometime.

Emilie's 4th Birthday

So we were recently in Montana for Emilie's 4th Birthday and boy was it fun. Matt got to help build a swingset and got to spend some quality time with his sister and neice. Julia ended up going with us, however, she spent the whole week on the couch and only got up when we went somewhere. Emilie's party was at the Zoo Montana where they let her choose an animal that she wanted to have an encounter with. She chose a Clydesdale. I think I personally would have chosen the tiger or the bear, but it was her choice and she had a blast feeding and petting the horses. Here are some pictures and videos from our trip.

The Porcupine Dances

Happy Birthday to you!!!

Colorado State Patrol

So, Saturday night, Matt got the opportunity to go out on patrol with the Colorado State Patrol from 4:30 PM until 4:30 AM on Sunday morning. Let me tell ya, way cool. I got to watch them test some shrooms to ensure they were drugs, I got to see how a roadside sobriety test goes, and got to see the Boulder County Jail all in the same night. Seeing as though I want to be a cop, I thought it was pretty cool to be out with them all night, and I even got to write a warning ticket to someone. I think CSP is the way to go being a cop though, I love being out in traffic and that is what I want to do. The other departments have to go to peoples houses to check in on them and stuff like that, which don't get me wrong, if I get offered a job with another department, I will take it, at least until CSP has an opening. Anyways, pretty fun stuff. I definitely suggest you try to get out on a ride sometime, even if you aren't wanting to be a cop. And don't worry, if I get on as a cop, you can ride along with me. Sorry, no pictures of this one, you will just have to imagine in your head how cool it was.

A Few Fun Things to Blog About

So, I was just going through and clearing out our camera, from back in November 2008. That shows you how few pictures we take lol. Well, we had some fun pictures that we wanted to show off. Most of you know that in March, right before Julia's surprise Birthday Party, we had the biggest snow storm of the season, the Spring Blizzard of 2009. Well, Molly and Liberty (our two black labs) had a blast in the snow. I caught some pretty good action shots of them, as well as a couple pics to show just how deep the snow really was at our house. Here are those pictures.

Julia's Birthday still turned out to be a big hit because the next day was nice and warm and melted a lot of the snow, We did, however, have to live without heat because the ignitor switch on our furnace went out, and what better time that during the blizzard. We slept with extra blankets because the house was only about 45 degrees inside. Brrr. We will have some pictures and videos of Julia's Birthday up soon. We just have to get them from Jessica.

Christina and Becca recently came out to visit for 2 weeks, and Christina brought her kids Eli and Leah and they are the cutest little kids in the world. They love to dance, so we took some pictures and video of them dancing. Here they are, very cute.

And the last tid bit that we want to share with you is the pictures that people have been waiting for of the Barney Room. It does not look as Bright now that the paint is dry, but it still kinda looks like Barney blew up, at least on the accent wall. Take a look at the room. Nice paint job Jewels.

Bad Bloggers

OK!!!! We are sorry that everytime you see our name come up on your blog you see that we have not blogged since January, but hey, give us a little break. All of you have babies to blog about, or vacations to blog about. So here is our latest blog... We wake up in the mornings, drive the 40 miles to Aurora to go to work, work an 8-10 hour day, and then drive the 40 miles home and watch some TV, then it is bed time.

Weekends is about the only time we really have time to do anything, and even then, we are busy working around the house. We are so close to having the basement bathroom done, it looks amazing. Matt and his dad put the toilet back in today so Julia doesn't have to go all the way upstairs in the middle of the night so that is good. We also had to find a make shift way to fix our basement shower because the glass enclosure shattered when we were trying to make it fit back in the hole today, so we had to buy a rounded shower curtain rod and a new shower curtain for the basement, but thats ok, we really did not like the glass enclosure anyways. The whole bathroom is really looking great.

We will soon be moving back upstairs to the Master Bedroom which will be good for us. Julia is painting the bedroom today to match our bedspread. It is purple and the accent wall looks like Barney exploded on it LOL. But that is ok, it really does look great.

We do have a few things that we will blog about here soon, but we are waiting on pictures from Julia's Birthday party and some other things. More to come, and don't worry, when we have babies we will blog more often so that our siblings out of state can keep up with their neices and nephews.