Balloons!

I am way behind on my blogging so please excuse this post from a couple months ago. Colorado Springs has an annual Hot Air Balloon Festival. Steve and I had never been to a balloon festival before so we wanted to go. We got the kids up WAY early and went to so see all the balloons. It was so neat to see all the balloons inflated. They had two special shapes balloons Noahs Ark and the Energizer bunny. It was such a process to get the air in the balloons. It was really awesome to look up inside and see up into the balloons. Steve and Sabrinna were able to help a crew get there balloon set up. The only bad part was that they were not able to ascend because of the weather. It would have been a neat sight but maybe next year.

Helen Hunt Falls

A couple of weeks ago we went for a hike to see Helen Hunt Falls. No the water falls are not named after the actress Helen Hunt. They were named after an early settler of the Colorado Springs area. It was a fun little hike and a beautiful time of year to see the colors.

Go Bronco's!!!...and Happy 5 years!

For our 5th anniversary (Aug 21) Steve and I went to a Denver Bronco's game. Neither of us had been to a professional football game. We got great seats and had a lot of fun on our date.

The last five years have gone by fast! We have made a lot of memories and I am looking forward to many more years of great memories.

Odds and Ends

These are just a few odd pictures from over the summer.


Tanner started walking at about 10 months. It was super exciting but as all mothers know it meant watching him more closely. Tanner gets into everything!!!! I can definitely tell a difference from raising a girl and a boy.


Tanner loved getting into the potting soil in my house plant. Luckily he got over it fast. Now he likes to crawl around the plant. It's like Tanner is saying yeh!!! I did it again. Dirt tastes so good.



Steve caught a couple of frogs and put them in my tomato bed. They had some babies! They really like swimming in our little pond!

The Wentz Ladies!

Over the last week of July and first part August Kellie and Michelle came to visit. We had a lot of fun with them here. We went to Six Flags in Denver, did more yard work, and went to a social activity on a farm.

A lot of our summer time has been spent doing yard work. (I hope to post pictures of what we have been doing soon.)




Steve and his family LOVE amusement rides. The faster the bigger the better! Sabrinna has got it in her blood because she went on the Tilt-a-world about 4 times right in a row. When she got off she wasn't sick and ready for more. The second picture is of us just getting off a water ride. I think that was the only ride Sabrinna did not like...the getting wet part.



Once a year a family in our ward invites everyone over to there home/farm for a social. They have horses, goats, chickens, and lots of open land. There neighbor gave everyone a hay ride. It was a lot of fun and we had a great time meeting people and enjoying the open land.


We also bought a boat to take over to a local pond and drive around. It was not the most qualitly boat. Anyways as luck would have it the battery died when the boat was in the middle of the pond. We tried to have a fishermen catch it and reel it in for us. Unfortunately, that did not work so we had to wait for the wind to blow it to shore. Lets just say we were there for a while.