Gregory's 1 year photo shoot

Last week Thursday we took Gregory to Target to get his one year photos taken. They turned out awesome. Sure helps to have such an adorable son. :-)

If you are interested in seeing them look here: www.thesmilestation.com and the user name is Roxanne Cook and here is the access code LTTT0982108323TAR

Our first visitors & first trip to Pike's Peak

So it's been a while since I've posted and what all have I been up to...getting our house ready for our first visitors. Sure, I've been up to other things, like taking Gregory to his 12 month check up, laundry, dishes, wishing I had time to scrapbook :-) among other things.

Our first visitors here in Colorado Springs were my parents.

The first day they were here we went to the Current Outlet Store (www.currentcatalog.com) and then we went and had lunch at Cracker Barrell. After we were all full we went over to Focus on the Family (www.fotf.org) and went through the welcome center as well as the Adventures in Odyssey area (Whit's End). http://www2.focusonthefamily.com/visitus/a000000482.cfm

The second day our original plans were to go to Manitou Springs and tour the Cliff Dwellings, but thanks to my navigating we took a wrong turn and were heading towards Pike's Peak, so we made that our destination instead. WOW! That was quite the adventure...crazy narrow mountain roads without guard rails. We all did good with Tom's driving. Since we weren't planning on going up to the Peak, Tom and I had shorts on...brrrrr was it chilly! We didn't go as far as you could go that day because we were told the snow was blowing and it was getting nasty up there, so we decided to stay where it was beautiful (and 54 degrees instead of 38).

Photo Remark: This photo was taken in front of one of the few reservoirs that we passed on the way up the mountain. Pike's Peak is in the background.


After we descended the Peak we stopped in Manitou Springs and had lunch at the best BBQ place I've ever eaten at. Charlie's Pit Bar-b-que. Good stuff. Then we just wandered around the town. We stumbled upon an old time arcade that also had lots of quarter rides. We couldn't resist giving Gregory some rides especially since Grandma had some quarters for Gregory :-)

Photo Remark: Here's one ride Gregory was on--it didn't do anything, but such a cute photo.

After all our fun in Manitou Springs, we came back and grilled some yummy burgers and ate some watermelon and more even though we were so stuffed still from lunch (and the funnel cake Tom HAD to have.) After dinner we played some UNO and had fun.

Then came Sunday and a normal Sunday for us--we all went to Sunday School and then to church and then enjoyed a meal from Sonic on the way up to the airport. After dropping my parents off at the airport we headed back and stopped at the Outlet stores which are about a half hour outside of the Springs.

We had a wonderful time with my parents. Thanks so much for coming to visit us and we look forward to seeing you in July in South Dakota!

P.S. Be sure to follow the link for the photos on the side of the page for even more beautiful photos. Maybe it will inspire more of you to come visit--there's so much to see and do here.

Gregory's First Haircut

Tonight we took Gregory to get his first "real" haircut. The one's mom did, do not count. He did awesome and now isn't so shaggy anymore :-)

Photo Remark: The before and after shot. In the after shot, Gregory is showing off his new grocery cart cover that Grandma Judy made for him.



It was pretty neat where Gregory got his hair cut, they even put a locket of his hair along with a polaroid photo in a little card for us to take with us.


You can also see a video that Tom took if you click on "Our videos" over on the right or follow this link: http://s188.photobucket.com/albums/z273/rmcook75/Gregory/

It's Friday and I got to go to MOPS!

I know Friday is almost over, but I couldn't write about this if it was only beginning. Today I got to go to MOPS again. The highlight of my week. I don't think it's so much that I enjoy letting someone else watch Gregory, but I get to chat with other Christian women and enjoy food, crafts and fellowship--some of my favorite things. Today's theme was Spa Day. For the craft we made soap...that might sound boring, but it wasn't and it was sooo easy (and smelled yummy too, sorry I can't make the picture scratch-n-sniff). The soap has a spice fragrance (cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and one other that I can't think of). It also has some oatmeal in it that makes it great for exfoliating. Now that I know how to do this and we were talking about all kinds of "recipes" for soap that you can find...who knows you may be getting soap for Christmas :-) We also enjoyed smoothies and gave ourselves manicures. It was a good time...I especially enjoyed being around some of the other gals a little more and getting to know them more.

Photo Remark: Here is a picture of the soap I made along with my beautiful manicure :-)