falling in love with boulder........

july 2, 2010

love how many bike riders are in boulder. we have lunch at the tea room. miller tries lemon.

the beautiful boulder creek

hanging on pearl street

later that evening, we went to chatauqua park, right at the feet of the flatirons. this is where the colorado music festival is, that i performed in 3 summers ago with the phoenix symphony chorus.

and what do you know, a concert, conducted by michael christie, was going on...

driving driving driving santa fe (glorieta!) driving driving boulder!

we went on an old fashioned family road trip. we left a 1 am july 1st headed for boulder, colorado.

i did the long first 4 hours overnight, then matthew had a 3 hour turn, and then i finished driving into santa fe.....we bought this christmas ornament to mark the visit.

the market

thought this was a cool pic...

the miraculous staircase at the laredo chapel

we ate lunch in santa fe at a super cool place called the shed. this is the place (right where that stroller is) that toby gave himself his very first tattoo when he was 2.5. he was playing with a pencil and jammed it into his chin right there! they spot of gray has remained all these years- a tiny tattoo! i'll show you if you ask me......

on our way out of santa fe, we hit a huge rain storm, but i still had to drive thru my personal utopia, glorieta. i spent every summer vacation of my childhood here, made some incredible friends, and grew in my faith every time i came here.

these are as we're driving into boulder. and our hotel staircase. there are actually 5 pictures on our computer of the hotel room. matthew has a picture taking problem, i think!

Summer 2010- part 1

we laughed, went to prescott, and took plenty of pictures.

little naked baby! we snapped this quick in between diapers- no peeing on the nice white sheets!
apparently, toby and i were pretty tired on the way home from prescott!

way back in september, i (actually toby) lost my tiffany charm bracelet. i was certain, after 8 months, that it had been thrown out with moving boxes. then, one morning, i woke up thinking about it. and i thought, well, we didn't look way under the bed. maybe glinka dragged it under there. i'll look later. went about my day. decided a couple hours later to look under the bed. pulled the sofa away from the foot of my bed, and suddenly thought, i might as well look in here one more time, too. i had searched this sofa in my room probably 12 times before, but, i felt deep into where the back meets the bottom. ouch! stuck myself with a thumbtack. then, i felt it. it was there. i pulled it out in disbelief. it was interesting to me to later think back to how difficult the last 8 months had been, the whole time my bracelet was missing. we hadn't made any money in a long time, and we had tightened the purse strings through christmas, and valentine's day, and my 35th birthday. all holidays when a new charm might have been the gift of choice. now, we were in better shape financially, and God told me where to find my bracelet. i'm not saying He wants me to have a fancy bracelet, but He knew it would be easier for me to not have it, than to be reminded that we couldn't have anything nice for this season.....

so, once it was found, matthew immediately said we would get a charm to celebrate our 12th anniversary. i have a charm from our 10th, so i opted for the clover with 35 engraved on it in honor of my birthday that had just passed. it's so fun opening this pretty package.....

miller had nothing to do with this part of the post, he's just cute in the tub!

last day of school!!

good golly- we made it! first year of school is done! we all went to drop off. miller loves toby:

it's amazing to me how much toby has grown up this year. he started school an only child, living at our old house, couldn't read, was a little kid. now, at the end of kindergarten, he's a big brother, we moved, he's reading on a 2nd grade level, and is definitely a big kid. well, medium. here's the physical manifestation of these changes:

amazing, huh? he's getting so big.....................