Holla Updates

Whewey, we've been busy this summer! But also relaxed having Tim home after work instead of having to study for school. We love daddy!

Avery knows where daddy works!

Avery is 22 months, potty trained most days, and a singing maniac. She loooves singing to herself and picks up new songs and words so easily. Here are a few snippets:

("Hosanna, hosanna, shout unto God with the voice of triumph, Praise Him, Praise Him, shout unto God with the voice of praise!")

(This is what I get for asking her to sing during breakfast).

And here's a final medley of several combined (these all tend to trail off incompletely...).

She's into copying phrases that we say (as opposed to answering questions), playing kitchen, cleaning/sweeping anything, saying "P.U." to us, and "Oh NO!", dressing herself, runningrunningrunning, and saying "Silly [enter name]!"

She spends a lot lot lot of time with her super aunts and Yoyo and PopPop so I can help schools expand their breakfast programs. Again, so nice to work from home part time, whatever hours I can muster! Thank you Jesus!

We've had a good share of outdoor adventures as well. Tim and I celebrated our 7 year anniversary by going to Grand Lake and Rocky Mountain National Park, a favorite! We even left Avery with the g-parents.

I love my man!

This where we got lost. Not bad.

mooooooose!

Continental Divide trail to Mt Ida

Then we spent a wonderful week in the great Northwest!! ahh, how we have missed you! Highlights were simply seeing good friends and family, and meeting our nephew Griffin and new buddy Henry! And weather that was 20-degrees cooler than Colorado! See all the photos here.

 

Tim and I also spent the summer training for my first half marathon. I'm proud to have finished under 2 hours, (and to have been running mostly downhill through the mountains)! Part of my training, I claim, was running the Survivor Mud Run with a couple of friends in 95 degree heat, during a drought. Needless to say, not sure I need to do either of those ever again, though we had fun!

The next weekend I joined a couple of friends for a 4-day backpacking trip to the Crestones in the Sangre de Cristo mountains, again leaving Avery, and this time Tim, behind. We climbed 2 fourteeners (and almost summited both). Enough exercise for me, for the rest of the year! :) See all pics here.

One more camping trip before Tim heads back to classes. Besides beating the heat, we've been getting involved a little more at our Vineyard church and enjoying our typical zoo, library, park and grocery store adventures. Next time posting won't take so long, and I'll have more exciting details to share!