WHATS NEW IN DENVER

Well it's been awhile since I've updated, lets just start off where we are right now. We've been really busy here in Denver finding new things to do and what awesome things there is to do in Denver. This is a view of the city with the mountains in the background taken from the Museum.
We live just meer blocks away from the museum of Nature and Science, so we have a pass which lets us go there whenever we want! Brystal loves the space section the most because they have a little play space ship where you can dress as an astronaut, run the ship, and even hunt for moon rocks.

Hunting for moon rocks

When it snows we try to get out and enjoy it. Everytime it snowed Brystal would always ask if there was enough snow to build a snowman, so this time when there finally was, I took her out to build the biggest snowman she had ever seen because after all, I am a pro. Well it turns out, I'm not a pro. The snow was way to soft this day and Icouldn't get it to stick together for the life of me. This was the best I could come up with. Blueberries for eyes and buttons and a carrot nose. Brystal doesn't know the difference, she was just excited to build a snowman.

Within a week or so of a major snowstorm, it usually clears up and melts and we have had amazing weather. We've taken advantage of this weather and hit the mountains. We found a great trail called Red Rock Trail which was great for the whole family! The kids had a blast.

Here is the view from the start of the trail.

I wasn't sure if Boston was going to like sitting in this thing, but he just sat there the whole time taking in the surroundings. He was quite the trooper.

There were many places to stop and climb on rocks so this is where Brystal and I had the most fun finding holes in the rocks and exploring.

We did let Boston out for a little while. He was so cute to stop and look at every little branch and bush.

At the beginning of the trail Brystal was a little nervous to do this on her own but by the end of the hike, she was an expert explorer, here she is walking down a hill after I taught her to bend her knees and creep down.

The weather has been so great that we try to get out and find new parks. The kids are really enjoying the parks here and we love to just get out.

Over the last weekend, we decided to pack a lunch and go find another park. This is Washington Park which is a huge park with lakes and trails and a playground that is in a cute little urban neighborhood. This seemed to be the happening park, there were runners, bikers, dogs, and everything else you'd expect to see in Colorado. We ate our picnic here at the table and soon squirrels started coming from everywhere to beg for food. When we started feeding them, the word got out and soon the geese showed up too.

So far we are really enjoying the great outdoors here in Colorado and are so excited to learn and do new things here. Boston and Brystal are learning to how to explore and learn about the things around them.

A SPECIAL DAY

On Sunday October 18 we blessed Boston into the church. He was such a good little boy and didn't cry during it. Here is his little outfit which he is a little long for, but you can never get clothes to fit just right with babies so oh well, he's cute anyways.

My cute little man.

Here are all the men who stood in the circle. Uncle Clayton, Grandpa Wood, Daddy, and Grandpa Bennett.

3 generations of Bennett boys.

I just can't get enough of the little guy. He makes me so happy

And he makes his Daddy happy too, but he likes his mommy more.

Next up while we had everyone there, we decided to celebrate Brystal's birthday a week early. She doesn't know the difference so it was the perfect day to do it. Here she is waiting for her presents.

She got a new cd of nursery rhyme songs from Grandma Wood which she listens too at night.

A new potty, which for now just sits there and looks fun in the bathroom. It hasn't gotten any real use yet.

And cleaning cart with a broom, mop, dustpan and broom, spray bottle and vacume. Now I can get a little help around here. She also got a puzzle and a Dora doll from Kristie and Clayton which she absolutely loves.

And of course the birthday cake!! She was so excited for the cake. Can you believe she is 2!?

TWILIGHT MOVIE REVIEW

Last night I got to go see the Twilight movie with my good friend Sarah. We went to the midnight preview. When we showed up we saw tons of people, and the line was out the door to get in. Of course most of the people there were hormonal teeny boppers, and we did get called Ma'am by one of them. You know your getting old when a teenager calls you ma'am. Great. Anyways, I was a little tired, but I would have to say that this movie was totally worth going to bed at 3 in the morning for. Besides a few akward moments and the teenage acting by Bella's friends, I would have to give this movie 2 thumbs up. I would watch this movie again and again. And now I can't wait for the next one. It was very clean, and entertaining and they didn't take out any of the good parts of the book. So for all you people who haven't seen it, you should, it was great, and I had so much fun going last night!

DOWN ON THE FARM

Last week at playgroup we went to Old MacDonald's Farm. It was such a fun place to go, that I'm sure Brystal will love even more when she gets a little bigger. She played in the big sandpile, picked a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch, pet the animals, rode a train and even rode on a pony! It was so fun!





I held her hand on the pony ride, she really didn't know what was happening, just that she was sitting on something and it was moving.










She was so cute and so good, she wasn't even scared.






We'll be back here again real soon!

THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM

Did I get your attention? Good! Well, this last weekend, my good old cousin Kimi and her family came to visit us. We spent one day at the children's museum downtown. This is a great place for kids, we had such a blast. Our first stop in the Children's Museum takes us to Mexico. Here Brystal dresses as a little Mexican chica while dining on her plastic taco and spanish rice. Mmmmm.

She seems a little confused as to why she is wearing that ridiculous hat and scarf.

She got to play on some Mexican instruments.

Here is a giant statue completely made out of telephones!

In the science room, Brystal got to experiment with slime and electricity.

Here are some cute baby chicks that whenever Brystal put her hands on the glass they would come running toward her hands. She liked this part.

Here we are at the grocery store. They have a whole room that is designed into a grocery store with the actual wrappers of the stuff they sell in the grocery store, and all the plastic fruit, veggies, meat, cheese, milk, and even ice cream. They give you a little shopping list and you go around and pick out the things on the list and put them in your basket. Here she is filling up her basket with a few of her favorite fruits, applesauce and raisins.

Here we are in the checkout line.

This picture didn't really work. It was hard to hold her over like that and get her to cooperate. Oh well.

Her favorite part was the toddler room, they have a little area that is blocked off for babies. Since she is still too little to do most of the things in the museum this little area was right up her alley. Here she is driving a car.

Look out people! I have a feeling we have a reckless driver on our hands here!

A DAY AT THE AQUARIUM

Can you tell by the look on her face that she is about to have a really fun day? Well we did. We went to the Downtown Aquarium which is really right in the middle of downtown Houston. I've always wanted to go there. They had much to do, a train ride, a ferris wheel, a merry go round, and of course fish. And for some random reason, a tiger. Anyways, it was a hot day, but we did all the outdoor stuff first, had lunch and went in to enjoy the fishies. I will definitely bring her here again when she gets older and cares a little bit more about what we were doing, but for the most part, I think she thoroughly enjoyed herself.

Here we are on the little ferris wheel ride. This is my friend Sarah and another one of Brystal's many suiters, Ryan who is just 6 weeks younger than her.

Here is the view of part of downtown Houston from the top of the ferris wheel. I think Nate works in one of the buildings behind these ones. I waved to him.

Here are my attempts to get a good shot of Brystal and I with a cute smiley Brystal...


Um nope nope

nope and nope.

Well she was very excited about the train ride, she thought it was very interesting. Here she is clapping for joy.

On the train, they stop the train dead in it's tracks and lock you up in this tunnel of sharks. It was really neat to have sharks swimming above you and on all sides, it was like we were swimming with them. Then they told us that one of their great white's had escaped during the last flood they had here and to keep your eye out for it. Then as the train ride kept going around little bushes and swamps and such, a HUGE great white shark comes bursting out of the little pond next to us and nearly made me wet my pants. Of course it was fake you guys, do you really think a great white shark would burst out of a little pond. Well, neither did I, not till after I nearly wet my pants anyways.

For some reason at the aquarium they have a tiger show, a WHITE tiger show....oooooo, ahhhh. Anyways, it was so packed I was standing in this corner next to a statue of a tiger head coming out of the wall and sat Brystal next to it, but she thought it was real, and was kinda scared. I probably would be crying too, what a mean mom Brystal has.

Brystal was fascinated by the big bubba fish. She was a little sketchy at first of course but she realized it wasn't going to eat her, although...

If I had this thing coming at me in open waters, I might high tail it out of there. Maybe it would eat me.