Denver Botanical Garden

We went to the Denver Bontanical Gardens Sunday morning before we headed to the airport.  I think it was a little early in the season. A lot more outside will be blooming in the next few months, but we still enjoyed it.  Here are some pictures.

I'd love to have a cute little green house like this in the back yard to sit and read in





We felt at home in the "Dryland Mesa"

 The next two pictures were Scott's favorite area.  It reminded him of a golf course.

There was some nice and interesting art work all around the gardens.

 This painting of flowers above was done on 15,000 of these little ceramic flowers.

This is a cocoon

These were speciman jars.

They also had a really cute kids area. 
Thanks again to Julia and Paul Hvass for watching our kiddos. They had a great time!

Puddle Jumpin'

We had a big rain storm this morning and then the sun came out and it was beautiful!  Molly and I went looking for puddles to jump in.  Since it's been so dry, the ground soaked up the water fast.  We only found a few, but Molly had fun anyway.

This girl loves rolly pollies.

Weekend in Denver

Scott had to go to Denver last week for work Wednesday-Friday.  Our wonderful friends, Paul and Julia, watched the kids so I could fly out there Friday for a weekend away.  Friday we went downtown Denver to 16th street.  The reviews were mixed on trip advisor and we weren't that impressed.  But we did eat at this wonderful place called Paramount Cafe.  We had a bison burger and it was the best burger I have ever had! That made our trip down there worth it.  Then we went to Cherry Creek Mall and looked around for a bit before going out for dessert.

Saturday Scott's sister, Stacey met us and we went to Rocky Mountain National Park and then to Estes Park. The mountains were just amazing.  My mom's family lived there while we were growing up so we went there every summer for vacation.  I have seen the mountains before, but being young, I don't think I appreciated how awesome they are.  They were just beautiful.

 



We decided to go on horseback ride through Rocky Mountain National Park.  It was fun and of course, beautiful!  My horse was Flax, Stacey's was Zack, and Scott's was Levi.  Levi had a personality of his own.  This was their first ride of the season and Levi wasn't sure he wanted to go with the group.  He constantly went off the path and wouldn't do what he was suppose to.  It was so funny!!  I think the horses personality matched his riders!  Here are pictures from the ride.

This is Deer Mountain.  You can go on a 6 hour ride and go all the way to the top!

In Estes Park, we looked at cute little shops and had some BBQ chicked Pizza-it was yummy!!

That was our Saturday.  Sunday we went to the Denver Botanical Gardens, but I'll have to do that as a seperate post.

My Little Gardeners

The kids got some flower seeds at a birthday party last weekend.  Tyler has been asking ever since to plant them.  I finally got some potting soil today and they had fun.  I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.

Tyler decided Molly would plant hers in pots and he'd plant his in the ground. When we told Molly she was going to put her seeds in the pots, she put the whole envelop in and thought that was it.  Cute!

 We'll see if we get any to grow.  I don't really have a green thumb, so who knows. 

May Day

We took a few neighbors and one friend some flowers for May Day.  I had told Tyler how I remember me and Kim doing this when we were kids.  He thought it sounded fun.  Angie lives across the street and was widowed last year. She's very sweet.  Jim and Mary live down the street and are so nice.  They always bring the kids Christmas, Easter, Valentines, Halloween, and birthday presents.  Tyler always sees Jim going to get the mail and he zooms up to him on his bike or scooter and chats.  They were both surprised.



For Jim and Mary, we hid after we rang the doorbell.  That's why they're on the ground. 

Then we took some to our friend, Andrea.  She and her daughter, Courtney loved them too.

Best Friend

My best friend, Dana was here two weekend ago.  We had such a good time.  She was her for a conference.  She got in Thursday afternoon and we just hung out and she played with the kids.  Molly loved her.  Tyler wanted to show and tell her everything.  Friday evening we went out to dinner.  It was a fun girls night.  We had yummy food and great margaritas at El Chapperal.  Then we went shopping.  Sadly, she had to leave Saturday morning.  It was her hubby's birthday and she has 2 boys.

 

She talked me into wearing heels with my skinny jeans.  What do you think?