Field Day

We had a great day at Field Day! Ryan went and watched Aspen in the morning and I went to watch Britain in the afternoon! They both had fun, what a great way to end the school year! Here are some pictures we took.

Field Day T-Shirts

Britain stuck real well!



Brit and Jay

Signing T-Shirts

Aspen and Abby

Aspen's class playing tug of war

Aspen's Class!

Aspen and Friends

Hannah Movie

Aspen and her friend Reynna have been wanting to see the Hannah Montana movie. So my friend Alanna and I decided to take our girls to see it. We had a great time. It was fun to have some Mother Daughter time!!!

Cozy Cow Field Trip

Britain had his last field trip for the year. I got some cute pictures so I thought I would share them. We had a great time. We saw them milk cows and got to try some fresh milk and cheese curds. We also got to pet some animals. It has been a great year with Brit, he has grown so much and learned more than I knew was possible. Just ask him some time to name the continents and oceans. He really loves his teacher Mrs. Czapenski and we will miss her next year. I don't know what I will do with all my free time next year with both kids in all day school. It will be a new adventure!

Our Garden

Our church has farm land and has been really encouraging gardens so they are letting members plant a garden. We are so excited. We have two rows, we didn't use it all because it was really long. We planted cucumber, green peppers, green onions, tomatoes, jalapeno peppers, habenero peppers, 3 different types of squash, pumpkins, carrots, peas and carrots. I think that is it, we have no idea what we are doing. So we will either have it all die or have more than we know what to do with. If nothing else we will have time together as a family tending to our garden. Stay tuned to see what happens!

Aspen's Christa Mcauliffe Doll

Aspen's last project for school was making a bottle doll. They had to choose from certain historical characters and she picked Christa Mcauliffe. Ryan said he wanted to help her do it so they could have some father daughter time. But let's just say Aspen wanted to dress her as a princess and we thought she should be an astronaut so she wasn't to thrilled. Hopefully someday she will appreciate the time with Ryan.

Happy Mother's Day

“Motherhood,” they wrote, “is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels.” (Next to the Angels, Elder Russell M. Nelson, Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles)


I am so grateful to be able to be a mother!!! Though some days I think what did I do to myself. I really think it is like holding a mirror in front of yourself and you see all of the good, bad and the ugly habits you have. The thing I love is that they love me unconditionally. They make me smile and sometimes they make me want to pull my hair out and run out the door screaming. It has been a big learning experience for me and I have grown in ways I never could have without being a mother. To me mother = self-less love and sometimes I just feel like being selfish. What I can't believe is that they truly are a piece of your heart that is walking around and you have no control, you either suffer or feel elated at mistakes or victories. I look back at my own mother who did it all by herself I can't believe how hard she must have worked. I am very grateful that Heavenly Father allowed me to be the Shepperd of these beautiful souls and I pray everyday that I will be their ANGEL and not mess them up too bad. HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL!!!

Hairspray Concert

Aspen had her last concert with Greeley Children's Chorale. It was Hairspray 60's Theme. My mom came up to watch Aspen, we were so glad she came. We had a great time. Aspen is still deciding if she wants to do it next year. They do a really great job we would love to see her do it again!

Soccer Dude

Britain is in soccer again this season and loving it! It has been a rainy cold season but that hasn't stopped Brit. He is on a team with some kids from school and has won every game but one. He really loves sports and is having a great time getting all of that wonderful energy out!!!

Black Eye

I told you Ryan is a bad abusive guy (kidding). I had eye torture, I mean eye surgery on Tuesday, April 28th. Previously, I had written about the bump on my eye. Well it never went away so I went in to have it drained. Let's just say when a Dr. asks you if you had a natural labor two times and asks if you want a hand to hold or a ball to squeeze, you might be in trouble! It was super uncomfortable, he gave me about 2 or 3 shots on top of my lid which just burned and then about 2 or 3 more shots underneath my lid. Then scrapes everything out and you could hear the scrapping. It was not fun and I shouldn't have driven myself home even though they said I could. What an experience hope to never do that again. So here is a beautiful picture of the results. PRETTY HUH!

Aspen's Field Trip

Aspen's 3rd grade class took a field trip to see the movie EARTH. We had a great time. If you like the shows Planet Earth you would like this movie. It had some really funny parts in it, the part Aspen and I loved was when these little birds were trying to fly for the first time. They really didn't fly they just fell out of the tree gracefully. I had a good time with her and took these pictures of Aspen and her good friend Abby!!!

11 Years of Bliss!!!

So Ryan and I just celebrated our 11 year anniversary on Saturday. Our wonderful friends Alanna and Devin watched our children. Thank you so much I don't know what I would do with out you guys. So we went to a restaurant we had never tried but had heard was good. It is called Mt. Fuji and is located in Fort Collins. We had to take off our shoes to sit at the table. You pick from a variety of platters such as: Beef, Chicken and Seafood. Ry and I love seafood so we got the seafood platter. Then you have a burner that has a soup base that you bring to a boil and add vegetables to make a rice noodle soup but you also cook your seafood in it for a minute or so. Then you could dip your seafood into all of these different kinds of sauces. It was really good!!! I am so glad we got to go on a date to celebrate our marriage.

Easter Fun!!!

So we had a great Easter. The Easter Bunny left an easter trail of fun filled eggs and of course an easter basket with cool outfits. That Easter Bunny sure knows Aspen loves her basketball shorts and Brit loves his soccer clothes. We went to church and then drove to Aurora to spend time with family and ate great food and we were lucky enough to have the Easter Bunny visit there with another easter egg hunt. My Mom surprised me with this beautiful Easter Lilly it smells so good! It was a fantastic day.

SpRiNg Time Flowers

I am not a green thumb at all. We mostly have rockbeds but we did leave room for our spring flowers. Here are some photos of what has came up so far. We still have tulips and a couple other flowers (that I don't know what they are called) that need to come up. These are so pretty and just put a smile on my face so I thought I would take some pictures. Best of all barely any maintenance. That is my kind of flower!!!

Coloring Easter Eggs

This week we have spring break and we spent some of it at my mom's house. She had a cataract removed so we went down there to help mom out. We had a great time seeing movies, going out to dinner, shopping and just visiting. So we decided to dye easter eggs and these are the pictures I took. We all had so much fun!!!

Aspen's School Concert

Aspen had a school concert on April 2nd. The 2nd and 3rd graders made up different poems about colors and then the 4th and 5th graders played the instruments to the poem. Aspen's class made up a poem to darkness. Here is how it went.

DARK
Dark night it was, Shadow I saw, Depressing night,
Darkness at night gave me a fright
Burnt Oreo, Silly Oil, Gorilla face
The Gorilla plays his records
Darkness at night, Gave me a fright, Nothing seems right
It made the gorilla nervous

They all had to wear black see the 1st picture of Aspen dressed in black. The second picture was everyone that performed. The last picture is Aspen's class dancing to their poem.

Ryan and Britain at a Denver Nuggets Game

Ryan at the last minute decided to take Britain to a Nuggets game because Brit has been so into playing and watching basketball. So he got the tickets off of Craig's List and he got 9 rows up from the court behind the Nuggets bench. They got there early to see if they could get some autographs and they ended up getting 3 of them they were: Scott Hastings, Dante Jones and Chris Anderson. Then Ryan noticed during the game they were sitting a few rows back from Kenyon Martin's mom. Ryan told Britain to go down and ask Kenyon's mom if he could have his headband after the game. Brit was hesitant at first but did it and she flagged her son down and he got an asst. mgr. to grab a new one out of the locker room and brought it to Kenyon's mom who brought it up to Brit and said "It's not Kenyon's but I hope it will do." Brit was thrilled and loves wearing it! What a great Father and Son day!!!

A trip to the hospital

Not a good day at the Paul home! School had early release day so I ended up with a 20 lb. turkey I had cooked for an activity for Aspen's class (Turkey anyone?). Well we got home and not long after that Ryan came home due to the weather. So he thought he would be a great Dad and play football with the kids! It was fun at first (see the 1st picture) well then Britain went inside and Aspen continued to play with Dad and ended up hitting her cheek on the brick retaining wall in the backyard!!! So we went to the emergency room and she had to have four stitches (see the after picture). She was so brave!!! I love her so much!!!

Mommy Daughter Time

Aspen's Choir had tickets for Disney on Ice so we decided to have a girls night out. We had so much fun watching the show. Aspen got some cotton candy and it came with the mask from The Incredibles. Doesn't she look cute? I really enjoyed spending some alone time with her. Here are some of the pictures we took there.

Eye Problems

I need to start this story from the beginning. Around thanksgiving I got a stye on my eye and then it turned into a small bump on my eye. Well the past couple of weeks the bump started getting bigger and it was causing my eye sight to be impaired. So I decided to go to the Doctors to check it out this past Thursday. She first started by flipping my eyelid out. Do you remember those kids who would flip their eyelids out and chase you around the playground. So thats what she did to me! It was disgusting then she told me I needed to go see an opthomologist. So I went and saw him he said I had two options first I could go home and do warm compresses on my eye, clean it with a special soap and put a antibiotic cream on it daily for two weeks and see if it goes away or I could do a procedure where he sticks a needle into my eyelid to deaden it and then flip my eyelid out and then cut a slit under my eyelid to let it drain the bump. Well I have never had to do anything with my eyes, I have always had great eye sight so this procedure freaked me out so I decided to go with the 1st option. I hope it works or I will have to do the surgery because it is really impairing my vision. So pray for me that the warm compresses work. A little sidenote he in a non chalant way said well youv'e went through labor so this won't be that bad. I would rather go through labor again!!!

My Grandma Chris turns 90

My Grandma Chris turned the big 90 on March 5th. My Mom and Aunt Jody had a big party for her on Saturday March 7th at the Methodist Church in Fort Morgan. We all had a great time and enjoyed seeing Grandma have a good time talking to family and friends. Here is a picture of her with Aspen and Britain. We love her so much!

Kindercourt at Frontier

At Frontier Academy they teach Core Knowledge. They just ended the section on continents and now they are learning Aesop Fables. As part of their grade they did a mock trial and the fable characters had to plead their case and say if either they learned their lesson or if they taught the other character a lesson. They had a judge, jury, bailiffs, attorneys, defendants and plaintiffs. Britain's fable was The Grasshopper and The Ants. Britain was the ant. He had to tell the fable and the lesson he taught the grasshopper. Which was "There is a time for work and a time for play." He did a great job and practically recited the fable word for word. They practiced in class and then they got to go to a real court and do it there.