birthday celebration

posted by owen and everett

since our birthdays are so close to each other, we had a joint birthday party this year with friends. even better, lula, two of our cousins - reagan and rye, and grammie and gampa were here to help celebrate it. the party was at the miller activity complex here in castle rock (we moved a couple months ago to castle rock!). we played on the climbing structure and cooled off in the swimming pool. lots of our good friends and their families showed up and helped us celebrate.

celebrating with good friends

yoda for owen and darth vadar for everett

goodie bags for our friends that had temporary tattoos,
popcorn, and fidget spinners! and mini cupcakes for us all to
enjoy - hot fudge sundae, lemon drop, and birthday cake sprinkles.

enjoying the pool with cousin rye

they had a perfect size pool for eloise

awesome cousins!

eloise and reagan enjoyed mimicking each other

rye the human playground

we loved being able to celebrate with our cousins. 
maybe next year the rest of the ellison crew will make it out!

hello snow!

owen and everett

we had our first major snow storm of the season and took full advantage of it.

helping daddy shovel

driveway snow angels

time to go sledding

rainy 4th of july

posted by owen and everett

what do you do when it rains on the 4th of july? you go with it and just have fun. as mommy says, it's only water. we had a blast dancing in the rain and getting all dressed up as if it's winter. i guess around here when it snows on mothers day and rains on the 4th of july, you have to make sure you have the proper apparel to enjoy it.

dragon face painting

posted by owen and everett

we went to celebrate our neighbor zoey's 1-yr birthday today! we enjoyed yummy frozen yogurt, hat decorating, and getting our faces painted. we both choose a black dragon just like toothless from our fave movie.

the artist doing the face painting did an amazing job

naturally i choose a dragon! it's the main character
in my favorite movie

i also got a dragon glitter tattoo for good measure

as all little brothers do, evie wanted what his older brother got

grammie might not like the paint or yogurt covered mouth, but 
she'd be proud of the way my hair is parted to the side!
don't i look like a polynesian warrior!

brothers working together

posted by owen and everett 

today we both attended a kids building workshop at lowe's. it was everett's very first time to go. he got his own apron and we built monster trucks together. it was so much fun!!

ready to start hammering some nails

my form can only get better from here

after many workshops at lowes and home depot, owen
was able to share some secrets to good hammering

two successful monster truck builds

or course we had to test them out

snow day fun

posted by owen and everett

with all the snow we've gotten over the past week, it has been fun getting to go outside with daddy.

owen making snow angels

hold on dad, let me get into this thing

oops, this isn't how i planned this

only thing better than a daddy pulling his son

is a daddy pulling both his sons. we need a bigger sled to
make room for lil sis

a warm winter's day

posted by owen and everett

nothing beats nice weather on valentines day in colorado. today we went out exploring at part of the cherry creek nature trail and daddy took some fun pics.