Homemade puppet's.....

The guys made a homemade puppet show tonight for me. There were lots of bunnies, and a dinosaur, and even a dog.........Hello Tabby!!

Love is the condition......

Connecting and re-connecting.....

It is so cool to sit across from someone you have known since you were kids, as they, and you smile at your kids. My friend Lisa and her husband John and daughter Miranda are here visiting from Texas this week, so i met up with them and another friend Kim and her son Henry. We met at Monkey Business (You know i love that place) and the kids had a great time. It took a minute for them to warm up to each other, but when they did, the games were on. As the kids played, we enjoyed talking and sharing mom tips we had a good laugh a couple times (mainly when Rohan for the 3rd and 4th time looked right at me while he pulled his shorts off and ran around in his diaper)

I had a lot of fun today, and it stinks Lisa lives so far away. But Kim and I have decided we will meet up again, i know I'm excited about that!! One on One mom time is ALWAYS good.

Quotes from Aragorn

"mom my brain is hot.......I think it's time to go in the pool"

Block Party

The boys enjoyed some cotton candy at the Edge Church block party last Wednesday. Mmmmm sugar!!!!

Random

Just a couple pics i took this past week

Bria turns 30.......

Well, the baby of the group is officially an adult. Her 30th birthday was Sunday, but i threw her a party on Saturday night, and i have to say it was GREAT!! It is probably one of the best parties i have thrown (and i like to do parties) everyone that said they would be here was, and they all as far as i could tell had a good time. I had all of Bria's favorite foods, and i made her cake (well, decorated it) we had wine, and food, and good friends, it was awesome. Bria made out like a bandit with all her loot, and i think i was even able to surprise her a little. I hope she had a great time, and her 30's are just the beginning.............Love you girlie!

1st 3D

Auntie B and i took the boys to see their 1st 3D movie this past Saturday. We went to the Movie Tavern which serves food while you watch your movie, when you do the early Saturday morning show, it's PANCAKES!! So we saw Despicable Me. It's a cute movie, but i don't think the boys liked it very much, they couldn't wear the glasses because they were to big )i mean honestly adult size glasses for kids in a KIDS movie??) and i think for Aragorn it was a little to loud. But they did good, they lasted the whole movie. We'll definitely do the Pancake morning again soon though, it was a lot of fun.

Happy Birthday Salli

July 13th would have been Salli's birthday. We miss her so very much, and love her even more. Not a day goes by that a thought of her isn't shared.

Afternoon Bike ride

The weather finally cooled down enough, and Rohan wanted to enjoy some bike time. Aragorn joined us too.......I think Aragorns birthday gift this year may be a bike, he's out growing the one he has ina a major way. The boys enjoyed the cool air, and ran around a lot.

So HOT!!

With temps that have been in the 90's (or higher) the boys and i have definitely been taking advantage of having a pool in our backyard. We have been in it just about everyday so far this summer. Here are some pictures of the boys playing in the sun and water......

Letting go.....

She is my best friend, my confidant, she is the one that has been there for me through everything, and i for her. She has held me up, and knocked me down when i needed it, she is honest and straightforward. And i love her more than i could ever convey. And it seems, i have to let her go. I don't want to, in fact i hate to do it. But it seems as though our lives right now are branching out into other places. I am staying home more, trying to get into a groove of being home, and being with the boys 24/7, getting into being a domestic goddess. And she is out living the life she deserves and worked very hard for. It's hard to watch and see her slowly move away from us, from me, and the boys and even though she would never admit it, Eric. I know deep down she loves us, and would love to spend more time with us, but in truth, she will never find what she needs sitting at home playing cards (even though she kicks my ass each time) and i know that, deep down i know that she has to go do her thing, while we do ours. It doesn't make it any easier though. I just hope she knows, that even though i may get upset that she isn't spending as much time with us/me as she used to, i understand and i love her, always have....always will. And whenever she needs to play some dice, or watch a movie, or beat someone in cards, i am here for her.

Pain.....

I have had my share. I've had a brick fall on my head, I've had my gallbladder removed after it was infected, I've broken my foot and walked on it for 2 days, I've had 2 kids. But there is NOTHING that compares to any pain having to do with your face. I had a deviated septum that had to be corrected about 8 years ago, that hurt A LOT. But last night before bed, my tooth started hurting. Lately this has not been anything new, my teeth are in pretty bad shape, and have been for about 7 years. The last time i saw a dentist he told me I needed about $7,000 worth of dental work to fix everything wrong. At the time, he told me "before it gets worse" well, worse came today. I have been in BITTER agony all day, i finally couldn't take anymore, and begged Eric to come home. He did, and i saw the dentist. The news, is not good. On the right side of my mouth, he says both wisdom teeth need to come out, he also says i need a root canal on my top molar that was just on the right side, he hasn't even seen the left. Not to many things scare me, and i have a ridiculously high pain tolerance, but that drill scares the crap out of me. I have no desire to go through with any of this, but i guess i have no choice. The point of this post you ask? TAKE CARE OF YOUR TEETH!!! Seriously, because you never know when "before it gets worse" will come.

This by far was the calmest 4th of July we have ever had here at the Spillman home. Usually we have a few people, and the pool is going and the BBQ is fired up, and the drinks are plenty. Not this year......this year it was 50ish and raining. It was one of the worst 4th of July's to date. It rained on us the ENTIRE day. We would get some glimmer of hope and then, it would pour. The dad's managed to get a couple good ones, but that was about it. A lot of the shows in and around Denver canceled due to the rain. So they boys got to play with some sparklers and see a couple fireworks. We were all in bed by 11:00.
Hopefully next year is better!!

1st time ever....

Eric worked over night at one of his clients last night, so i knew he would want to rest today. So i took the boys to see Toy Story 3. It was their 1st movie in a movie theatre and they LOVED it!! It was a little long for little guys (1 hr 49mins) but they did pretty good. About 1/2 way through Rohan wanted to get up and move around, he also wanted to talk. Aragorn made it to about 10 mins before it was over before he even started to squirm. Unfortunatly we got held up and didn't have very good seats (to far in front) but the boys still had a great time. And we got there before 2:00, so it was only $10 for us to get in :-) I liked that part! This is the only picture i got, because it was SO hot outside we wanted to get into some A/C.

A day in the life of Rohan.......

Ahhhh the life.......

Having a little smakeral

Gettin caught up in his activities

A shark and a Train

I took the boys to Barnes and Noble on Tuesday for their free story time. We listened to a couple, one was a ballerina story (that the boys had no interest in) and the other was Shark vs. Train by Chris Barton this one they liked. They both answered when the reader asked questions of the kids, Rohan even at one point went and sat next to her so he could get a closer look. After the story, they gave the kids a picture of a ballerina or shark to color. We had a very good time and will definitely be visiting again.