flip flops regardless of what feet they are on.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Atlanta cousins visit
Jeff, Katie, Sam and Maya came to visit from Atlanta. We had such a good time playing and hanging out. The kids are so close in age that it is always a bit wild and tons of fun.
Bedtime stories with Auntie Katie
Delp Family
Symeon and Sam such good buddies
Symeon was cold and he only extra coat was Marin's so he looks like the hulk busting out of his clothes but he was warm and not complaining so it was all good.
The Delp boys and their kiddos
Jeff and Sam
Shawn and the kids
Uncle Jeff and Marin, she took a real liking to him right away they were so sweet together
The Delp boys and their boys
Katie and Maya
The girls who have a tumultuous relationship at times enjoying one another
Cousins picnic dinner fun!
Lil Kickers break
We decided to take a break from our soccer class for the summer and regroup for the fall. Symeon is ready for real soccer games which amazes since he is only 3 so we are looking for a bit more hard core program for the fall where he will play game and practice some ball handling skills which seem to come so naturally to him. Babes is also ready for more but will need to wait until she is 3 so next fall for her. Here are some fun pictures of one of their last classes and their certificates.
Symeon with his coach that he had a crush on
Babes and her Mama
Getting good job stamps on her stomach she loved it. I also feel like she is practicing for the big win when she is older and rips her shirt off and runs around the field because it is okay for female soccer players to do this type of thing but by then I will make sure she is wearing a sports bra.
Our big helper. Symeon was always willing to help his coach clean up trying to impress the ladies!
Another stamp lover and shirt ripping off practice for the future!
Scoring a big goal and left footed gosh her Daddy is so happy!
Dangling feet
Today I watched my beautiful baby girl coloring and her feet were dangling off the kid chair she was sitting in and her tiny little feet were swaying back and forth as she colored. As I watched them I thought before I know it those feet will be touching the ground, then carrying her to school, then to sleepovers, on dates, to college, maybe around the world, to greatness, to happiness, to contentment, to helping others, down the aisle, to the hospital to have her first baby, away from me and yet always back to me those tiny swaying feet will carry her on her own journey. I have been entrusted with those tiny little feet and I am in awe of them and her.
Symeon words
I have posted before that Symeon says these funny words like stall works sometimes and just out of the blue. If you are around him for anytime you hear them quite often. So it all started with the word coupon and he used it so much and just yelled it sometimes it was so funny. I think they are words he finds interesting to say and hear and he usually gets a laugh out of us when he says them so I am sure that encourages him. The next word was Stapleton a near by neighborhood, then Comcast the cable company, then it was coconut, and now we are on to kingdom which comes from our Bible story we read every morning at breakfast. I don't want to forget these words and this silly fun time in his life. He is such a great kid with an amazing sense of humor and his laugh is infectious so to my silly guy coupon, Stapleton, Comcast, coconut, kingdom, and Mommy loves you so much!
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
My cleaning man
Symeon loves to help me clean so I encourage him and he goes to town. He is a huge help. Here he is vacuuming out the couch. He keeps asking me when he is bigger if he will be able to clean the bathroom by himself instead of just helping me and I assure he will and his face just beams with excitement. I hope when he is 13 and cleaning the bathroom that his face is still beaming with excitement :)
Monday, June 27, 2011
Catch all post of the past several weeks
I have not been posting very regularly the past few weeks because we have been in the midst of great change once again. Although we are not moving this time just our housemates Michael and Denise our lives and home have been in a state of moving which at times was quite stressful and very emotional. We are all grieving the loss of our dear friends especially since we lived with them so closely for the past 8 months. They loved us and our kids and the first night they were gone Shawn and I both felt alone in the world which was odd. After talking it through I realized that I have not lived alone with only my immediate family since I was in 3rd grade and since I am now 36 that is a long time to live in some kind of community setting. I think it is going to take some getting used to.
I also realized I am usually really good at documenting what the kids have been doing and how they are growing and changing but I do realize I say very little about some of the other "stuff" in life. For instance I never mentioned that I went to this amazing conference for spiritual directors in Atlanta for 3 days and also visited with family or that I have attended 3 concerts in the past several months. Duran Duran with Denise for her birthday I did not know one song. U2 because honestly I felt like I needed to and I was not disappointed and finally Mumford and Sons because Shawn had a box because of his ticket connections. Really lots of fun and a bit out of the norm for me since in general I don't really love attending concerts.
Since our housemates have moved I have been given the rare treat of having my own office which is super fun. I have a place to call my own and organize in my own way which I am loving. Although it needs a lot of work it is a great space and so exciting. With my new office I was given Shawn's hand me down desktop which will be easier for blogging etc than my laptop but I have found that computer is a very personal thing and it is taking me sometime to "fall" for this one. I am still making it my own so I am not comfortable on it just yet but in time. One thing Shawn and I figured out very early in our marriage is that we can't share a desk or a computer so I am content with his super fast hand me down so that he could get an even faster computer as long as he took all his "stuff" off it which he did thanks honey!
The kids and I have been super busy as well. We have been meeting new friends, attending birthday parties, going to play groups, swimming until we are water logged, going to playgrounds, the zoo, the aquarium, the botanical gardens, splash parks, bike riding, hanging out with new babies, blowing bubbles so many we bought a bubble gun because some days I felt light headed, we have squirt guns which Symeon loves but honestly I hate since I don't really like to be wet in my clothes, we have eaten a lot of Popsicles and we have spent a tone of time running through the sprinkler. Overall we are having a fun and wonderful summer hanging out even though summer has officially just began and to be honest I really hate summer but with kids it is pretty fun.
We have used gallons of sunscreen and I see no end to our usage in the future since the Colorado sun is intense and we are about as fair skinned as they come both kids grimace when I lather them up but they endure. We have fun sun hats because Marin was continuing to burn her nose even with 70spf and I am so glad they both love to wear them it makes life much easier. We were in the mountains this past weekend and we has to lather up several times a day because biking, swimming, hiking, and playgrounds are hard on the sunscreen.
We were so happy to have Jeff, Katie, Sam and Maya visit for several days and we are excited my college friend Andi will be coming for about a week to hang out and then we are off to CT for 10 days and then my Mom will be coming back to CO to hang out with us. I will do some more posts of some of these fun times we are having. I hope you are all enjoying your summer as much as we are.
I love this picture of summer fun because it captures the joys of being a kid in the summer and that Marin is never more than a step behind her brother. She follows him everywhere and he leads with great love.
I also realized I am usually really good at documenting what the kids have been doing and how they are growing and changing but I do realize I say very little about some of the other "stuff" in life. For instance I never mentioned that I went to this amazing conference for spiritual directors in Atlanta for 3 days and also visited with family or that I have attended 3 concerts in the past several months. Duran Duran with Denise for her birthday I did not know one song. U2 because honestly I felt like I needed to and I was not disappointed and finally Mumford and Sons because Shawn had a box because of his ticket connections. Really lots of fun and a bit out of the norm for me since in general I don't really love attending concerts.
Since our housemates have moved I have been given the rare treat of having my own office which is super fun. I have a place to call my own and organize in my own way which I am loving. Although it needs a lot of work it is a great space and so exciting. With my new office I was given Shawn's hand me down desktop which will be easier for blogging etc than my laptop but I have found that computer is a very personal thing and it is taking me sometime to "fall" for this one. I am still making it my own so I am not comfortable on it just yet but in time. One thing Shawn and I figured out very early in our marriage is that we can't share a desk or a computer so I am content with his super fast hand me down so that he could get an even faster computer as long as he took all his "stuff" off it which he did thanks honey!
The kids and I have been super busy as well. We have been meeting new friends, attending birthday parties, going to play groups, swimming until we are water logged, going to playgrounds, the zoo, the aquarium, the botanical gardens, splash parks, bike riding, hanging out with new babies, blowing bubbles so many we bought a bubble gun because some days I felt light headed, we have squirt guns which Symeon loves but honestly I hate since I don't really like to be wet in my clothes, we have eaten a lot of Popsicles and we have spent a tone of time running through the sprinkler. Overall we are having a fun and wonderful summer hanging out even though summer has officially just began and to be honest I really hate summer but with kids it is pretty fun.
We have used gallons of sunscreen and I see no end to our usage in the future since the Colorado sun is intense and we are about as fair skinned as they come both kids grimace when I lather them up but they endure. We have fun sun hats because Marin was continuing to burn her nose even with 70spf and I am so glad they both love to wear them it makes life much easier. We were in the mountains this past weekend and we has to lather up several times a day because biking, swimming, hiking, and playgrounds are hard on the sunscreen.
We were so happy to have Jeff, Katie, Sam and Maya visit for several days and we are excited my college friend Andi will be coming for about a week to hang out and then we are off to CT for 10 days and then my Mom will be coming back to CO to hang out with us. I will do some more posts of some of these fun times we are having. I hope you are all enjoying your summer as much as we are.
I love this picture of summer fun because it captures the joys of being a kid in the summer and that Marin is never more than a step behind her brother. She follows him everywhere and he leads with great love.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Union Game
We went to our first professional soccer game as a family and we had so much fun. The Philadelphia Union were playing here in Denver just a few minutes from our house so we dressed in our gear and headed out on a perfect evening.
Here are two devoted fans (whether they want to be or not you have to love indoctrination). I love these pictures they so capture their spirits. They are decked out in jerseys and scarfs for the big game.
One happy Daddy and son. Symeon was very engaged in the game asking lots of questions and rooting for the goalies.
People made so many comments about Marin she looked so cute in her jersey and hat adorable! She did great she was a little antsy at the very end but mostly she sat and watched the whole game and at the end she said more that Mama.
Not wanting to spend the money on a jersey for myself I ordered a less expensive tee shirt which much to my surprise had union written across my chest in sparkly rhinestones ahhh! I felt like I needed to have french manicure and wear high heels to the game which of course I did not! A bit much for me but I was assured it was not that bad and I had to wear it or be the only family member with my Union garb and Symeon was not going to have that. A really fun time as a family one of those ones you tuck away in your mind hoping you remember every second of it even though you know you won't.
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