Family Fun, Great Weather

Last Saturday we spent the day visiting several parks in our neighborhood while our house was being shown by realtors. We just drove around finding all of the little pocket parks in each subdivision and let Lauren pick out which ones she wanted to play at. It was a beautiful day and we had some very relaxing family time together, something we don't do enough of. The Lord has blessed us in so many ways, we just need to take more time to appreciate everything and give him thanks.

I love the following pictures. The first one was taken when we were exploring the neighborhood and playing at the park with Lauren when we first signed the papers to buy and build a house in our neighborhood. The second one was taken last week. Lauren has grown and changed so much in the short 3 1/2 years that we have been here. We have such great memories of living here that we will always cherish.

Spring Break at Winter Park

There is so much going on right now with the move, but I am going to get to that at a later post. I just wanted to share some pictures from our ski trip with you. It was Lauren's first time to ski and Justin's first time to Colorado. Both of them had a great time being with family and enjoying the outdoors. We rented a house in Fraser, CO, which is near Winter Park resort. It was a great family gathering with Jason's brother Mark and his family, his cousin Teri and her family, and his uncle Joe and aunt Pam. Lauren and her cousin Kaitlyn took 4 days of ski school together and by days 3 and 4 they were skiing down the bunny slope with no help. Jason and I were so proud of Lauren, she did awesome! The weather was beautiful and Justin loved being outside. Jason unfortunately was stuck working offshore the first 2 days of the vacation so the 2 kids and I flew to Colorado without him (don't want to do that again!) and he was able to make it there on Tuesday and salvage 2 days of skiing. I think both the kids are going to like skiing which makes Jason and I very happy!

Lauren is the skier in the back.