Happy 4th Birthday Garret Quinn

We are celebrating Garret's birthday in Albuquerque this year. He had a birthday party with friends at Monkey Bizness before we left Colorado, then we had a little celebration on Easter with the Olson's, Falde's and Adams'. Today we took birthday pictures at Portrait Innovations, played at Umpa's house, and then we are off to Itz - an amped up Chucky Cheese. I'd say G's had a pretty good chance to celebrate his big day!

1 Year Anniversary

This weekend marked the one year anniversary of our move to Colorado. What a year it has been! There were houses bought and sold. We took many small adventures to Beaver Creek, Steamboat Springs, Copper Mountain, Keystone, and Breckenridge. We attended family and friend weddings (and a funeral - we love you Pops) & associated trips to Seattle, Sacramento, Baltimore/DC. There was white water rafting, skiing, alpine slides, fishing, hiking, snowshoeing, sledding, pro baseball, hockey, basketball, soccer, and football games... 4 more birthdays... We taught Garret to ride a bike, play soccer, and ski. We taught Owen how to walk. We were blessed with many visits from both family and friends (hope the arm is healing well, Tim) and have thousands of pictures to prove it. We are beginning the first of many home improvements. I ran the Denver 1/2 Marathon. I helped manage the construction of a 29 story condominium tower (we topped out the structure on Saturday - see picture below) and took multiple work trips to Oklahoma City, Minneapolis, and Phoenix. And there were a million other great things that happened throughout the year. Next year will prove to be even better - with more skiing, more home improvements, more athleticism (full marathon, 195 mile relay race, and hopefully a gym membership), and more wonderful adventures and experiences with the boys. As always, everyone is welcome to join us. Let us know!

Grammy and Papa visit us!!!!

We had some special visitors last weekend. Grammy and Papa blew through here for a 38 hour visit. Of course we managed to maximize every minute. Here are a few highlights.

Garret and Papa testing the cake batter

Grammy and Owen testing the frosting to make sure that it is yummy!

The boys blowing out the candles.

Our Trip to T.O.

Garret, Owen and I made our annual trip to California to visit Nana Kris over President's weekend. We went to the Santa Barbara Zoo, saw lots of friends and cousins, and played and played and played.

Phoenix Phun

Meg, Garret, and Owen went to Pheonix over the Martin Luther King long weekend in January. We visited Grandpa Randy, Great Grandma Mary, and Bugs. We also saw Shannon, Steph, Sanjog, Konnor and Hunter. We loved seeing the sun and we enjoyed the warm weather. It was a fun filled weekend.

Happy Birthday Mom!!!

May your motherliness be next to Godliness...

Happy Birthday Brian!!!

So the big brother turns 35 today. Happy birthday! May you grow as much in your next 35 years as you did in your first (not physically, of course).

Gobbler's Nob

The good news is that it will be an early spring! I can always count on Punxsutawney Phil to get me through the bitter cold and snowy winter. In fact, since ole Phil's prediction, we have had several 50+ degree days and the mountains of snow piled up in the streets and yards are slowly receding. Check it out at http://www.groundhog.org/prediction/ .

Ridiculous!

Ok already. This is getting a little ridiculous. Its snowing again. It has snowed at least once a week since Christmas and is supposed to do so again this Friday. I can't get my Christmas lights down! In December and January we have received over 50 inches of snow and recorded the 3rd snowiest December in Denver's history. Here is a picture of my project as we prepare the columns on the 23rd floor. Tomorrow is supposed to be a high of 8 degrees. Brrr.

Holiday Fun

We cranked through another holiday season. What fun! EVERYONE was here to visit in Colorado for Christmas during one of the worst storms in years. Talk about a white Christmas -try 3 feet of white! The good news is that we were able to try out our snowshoes without even getting in the car.

Christmas was a success... a new side loader garbage truck for Garret and a Plastic Box that does everything for Owen -

Fun was had with Grammy, Papa, Nana, Buddy, Umpa Tom, and Sig. We even had our friend Kameron and his daughter Kamale stay with us while they waited for the roads to clear. We trekked up to Copper Mountain for some New Year's skiing complete with fireworks, flame jugglers, freestyle ski jumpers, ice skating, disco balls, and more. All in all, very satisfying.

GMail

Want a Gmail account? Meg and I have plenty of invitations... Let us know.

The Adams P.I.

We did it again. We managed to complete our 7th issue of the Adams P.I. Click on the image to see a larger version. Happy Holidays!