July 4th weekend in Denver

I forgot to blog about our trip to Denver which was actually one of the funnest weekends this summer by far. Well, except the 9 hour drive there. It started off great, Oli and JJ napped. But as soon as we got into New Mexico JJ decided he wanted to be anywhere except in his car seat, and cried about it, for about 400 miles!!! It looked something like this:

But luckily we arrived (only about 9 hr drive) and had the funnest weekend. First I will say: Colorado is beautiful, I would definitely live there. From living in Lubbock for the past year we were so excited to get to Denver and see the gorgeous mountains and most of all GREEN-NESS. Lubbock has a lot going for it, but it is not at all green, more this year than any because of the drought, so we were SO excited to be somewhere that's green....!

Pretty much the first thing we did was go to Cafe Rio to get one of these:

Pork salad, no beans, everything on it (except cilantro). Perfection. All you Costa Vida lovers out there: shame on you, Cafe Rio is the biz.

Anyway.....we stayed with our besties, Courtney and Rock Carter, they're just finishing up at BYU, we keep trying to persuade them to move to Texas. Rock has the nicest most welcoming family ever, they let us stay in their gorgeous house...making me love Colorado even more, not that we could ever live in that neighbourhood, maybe on day?! Here's some of the fun stuff we got up to:

Playing the sand box

Oli got to hang out with his best buddy Griffin.....

....and his future wife Maelie!

After July 4th Parade chillin with snow cones

And they had fun games for the kids- love JJ's hair!

Sleeping on the way home from the parade

I wish we had taken more pictures but we were so busy I think we forgot. We went to Waterworld for a day which was SO fun and I'm sad we didn't take any pictures there either. Also me and Courtney went shopping a lot.......gotta love that. We were really sad to leave so we stayed an extra day and went to The Cheesecake Factory for Courtney's birthday. We miss you guys!!!

Some days are bliss....

You know those days where you are at the end of what you can handle? The ones where you are close to pulling your hair out? Well every once in a while I'll get one where I think, I can actually do this, I am a good mum! It's usually the days where my boys decide to be nice.

Well this has been my day of bliss. For the past hour JJ decided to do this (yes he's asleep on our bed):

Whilst Oli decided to do this:

What cuties! I wonder how long this will last......

In Remembrance of Mr. Krabs

Mr. Krabs
Nov 2008-July 2011

You found us in that IKEA store

Oliver could not let you go

You're yellow and as bright as the sun

Your tiny eyes do glow. 

You were Oli's favourite friend

He took you everywhere

But you grew old and got all gross

You had nasty stuff in your hair

I'm sorry we lost you Mr Krabs

We looked for you for a while

And whenever Oli asks for you

I'll think of you and smile

Here's some of your best moments:

 

We love you Mr Krabs!

Oli's first picture

So Oli has been colouring and drawing for a while but it usually just looks like a big mess, which is fine! He always shows his drawings to me and tells me what they are. Today he showed me a drawing and I was so proud of him because you can actually tell it's a face!! But that's not all, he even told me the story behind the picture. He said "Oli is crying because he misses mummy." And if you look at the picture you can tell the top two circles are eyes with tears drawn underneath, so cute. I know this is a small thing, but it just made my day! Here's his work:

Date night!

Last night we went to see the last Harry Potter movie, it was sooooo good! I dropped Tim off at the movie theater a couple of hours early and then took the boys to our friends house (thanks Iverson's!) I cried a lot in the movie, it was very sad, but amazing. I almost feel like it's the end of an era. I read the first book when I was 12 and feel like I've grown up with them, this one was by far the best!

A couple of Sickos.....

So the past few days in the Oblad household have looked something like this:

Our poor little guys were feeling poorly, which caused them to basically lay down all day. Can't say I really minded, it was actually a nice break!

They're better now :)

Happy Birthday to me.....

So I recently turned 25 and I had a lovely day! Tim surprised me by dropping me off for a 1-hour massage and with this personalized cake:

We also went out in the evening to see a movie and got some grub without kids.....lovely.

But my favourite present was driving to Denver and getting to eat this!!!! Divinity.