Eggs and destinations...

Happy Easter everybody!

This has been quite the exciting week for our little family. On Thursday, the wait for Match Day was finally over. For anybody familiar with the process, you know that there was a lot of belly-aching and sleepless nights leading up to the date. Anyhow, we found out where we will be for the next three years as Jesse does his family medicine residency. And the winner is:



We are really excited to be going back to Utah and getting much closer to our families (with a little cushion still). His residency starts in mid-June so we will be moving shortly. It is a little bittersweet though because we have really loved Denver and the friends that we have met here.

This is at match day. It is a big fancy event with the media there and tension that you could cut through as all the students wait to find out where they will be headed off to.

Today we took Finn to his first egg hunt ever at the park across the street. It was absolutely bananas. There were 3000 eggs spread over an acre and once the hunt started, they were gone in 30 seconds (at most). Finn ended up with three eggs which we feel like was a huge success. His loot was a single Starburst, a mini Hershey's bar, and a mini Mr. Goodbar. Not bad at all. He mostly enjoyed being part of the scene there at the park with the rest of the little kiddies. We did a few minutes of training at home just before the hunt so he had a pretty good idea what to do. He also gets a little head start as seen in the video below. If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin':

This was taken before the hunt started. We thought about claiming this tree but then remembered that this is a favorite place to walk dogs and this tree has gallons of doggie pee on it. So, we headed for the open spaces instead.

Finn checking out the booty. His trick-or-treat basket doubles nicely as an Easter egg basket.

Trying to figure out where the chocolate went. It was in dad's tummy.

After the big hunt, we went home and colored some eggs of our own. We miss the annual event at Neil and Becky's. Half of these we made for our friends Mark, Jenny, Josh, and baby-girl (due Thursday). He matched into the surgery program at the University of Utah (wahoo!!) and today is her birthday.

Our favorite eggs

This was cute until he started throwing them.

More Moab...

Here are a few more pictures from Moab now that the blogging gods are happy. We are still trying to figure out what to do with ourselves now that we are back in Denver. Jesse is off school until graduation in May and we find out next week where we will be spending the next three years.

We just want to eat him sometimes.

Jesse's brother Clint, number 3150, cheering on the cheerleaders near the end of the race. The guy in the bandana apparently has a man-crush on Jesse.

High-stepping with mamacita and g-pa Neil.

Moab

Here are a few pictures from our annual Moab trip. Jesse's family has been going to Moab every March for about the past 25 years as somebody in the family usually runs the half marathon. This year it was his brother Clint, who shattered his personal record and is the epitomy of fitness. Besides cheering on the runners, we had a good time dragging Main Street and hiking to some of the arches. Lindy's mom, Kris, was also able to come this year again. She actually was in Denver for a few days prior to the road trip and gave us some free babysitting so that we could go to the show Stomp! and the movie Vantage Point (2 stars). Thanks Kris! We will have to post some more pictures later because the blogging gods aren't letting us put more on right now.

Taking a little breather after a grueling hike to the Windows. He insisted on walking the whole way up and down.

Another grueling hike- this one to Delicate Arch.

Our favorite circus act at the arch.

Dead sexy family.

Finn enjoying the kiddie pool at the hotel in Glenwood Springs.

Another exciting week in Denver

This seems to be our daily routine. We have been going to the zoo when the weather is nice just to get out of the house and Finn loves walking around and seeing the animals. And then it is nap time. Later in the evening Finn will play with his toys and then it is time for bed again. And the cylce continues...We are a pretty happening bunch!!!

We met our friends the Mawhinney's at the zoo. And their little boy Josh is so cute. He just wanted to hold Finn's hand.

Josh and Finn in the wagon

The boys... Mark, Josh, Finn and Jesse

Finn taking a nap on all of our pillows. It was pretty cute.

Finn playing with his new marble madness toy.

Look at that sweet and innocent face... YA RIGHT!!!! He has mom wrapped around his little finger

In his pajamas getting ready to go to bed.

Crazy hair.

I went to check on Finn one more time before I went to bed and this is how he fell asleep so I had to take a picture and then I had to move him. My paranoid self couldn't leave him sleeping in that position. I was afraid his arm would fall off or something to that extreme!

Girls Weekend

I am so sorry that it has taken me this long to finally post my trip. Jesse's mom decided to get all of us girls for Christmas a weekend get away. So she flew me home to Utah over Presidents' Day weekend and we drove to Park City and stayed there all weekend. It was me, Jesse's mom, his Grandma, his sister Rachel and his two sister in-laws Jodi, and Kjerstine. His Aunt Trina and her two daughters Christie and Stef, joined us in Park City for a wild and crazy weekend too. So it was a fun filled weekend that included shopping, movies, eating, a sewing project, shopping and more eating. I had such a great time. It was hard to be away from my baby for the first time but I think that Finn and Jesse had a blast with me gone! But a big thanks to Jesse's mom for a wonderful time.

Jesse's sister Rachel licking the icicle out our front door!

This is the front door to our condo behind this monstrous pile of snow and ice.

This is a volcano thing that is filled with a natural hot spring. You can walk inside and if you would like you can even go scuba diving or swimming in it for a small charge!

Jodi inside the cave.

The winter wonderland at the Homestead resort!

Jesse's cute Grandma

All of us ladies. Lindy, sister in-law Kjerstine, Jesse's mom Becky, Jesse's Grandma Fay, his sister Rachel and sister in-law Jodi. Aren't we just a hot bunch!

Spa day. Jesse's mom treated us to massages. It was lovely. Thank you Laramie! ( He was my masseuse.)

All of us ladies at lunch.

I didn't take to many pictures and I feel bad that I didn't take any pictures of Jesse's aunt and two cousins. Maybe when they send me pictures I will make a girls weekend continued. But this will have to do for now.

Hum-drums

We very well may be the owners of the most boring blog on the internet. Two weeks have passed and we don't have anything exciting to blog about once again. Finn is crazy as ever, getting into everything and throwing it on the floor. The kid can't sit still for more than two minutes. He has been picking up some new tricks- pointing to body parts, making noises of animals, and calling anything round a "ball". We still struggle to put the pounds on the guy but find hope in his new found love of Trix cereal and Teddy Grahams. Finn and Jesse survived a weekend alone as Lindy went to Park City for a girls-only trip (pictures coming later) and both are extremely happy to have the woman back in the home. We are all hoping that spring will spring soon so that we can get the wiggles out somewhere besides our little home. Here are a few recent pictures and a little video of the bambino:

Finn actually really likes wearing stuff on his head. We much prefer actual hats than when he puts blankets on his head, covering his whole face, and walks around the house, inevitably bumping into something and falling over.
Finn with his two best ladies- Ms. Maddi and Ms. Halle.
At the zoo earlier today. The animals were all crazy and mean to each other and we have never heard the zoo be so loud. We think love must be in the air.

Trying to feed the giraffes.
The dragon thing in the background.

Playing on bacon at the mall.

It may take a little coaching, but his kid-tricks are really in there.

"Groundhogs' Day" is one of the greatest movies ever

We really have nothing new or exciting to report. Things are going well here and we pray for warmer days so that we can get Finn out of the house a little more often. We have all been sick this week and have had a great parenting experience cleaning up puke, boogers, and other horrifying bodily fluids. It was a Groundhog's Day miracle that we didn't sell the little boy to the gypsies after this week. He continues to give us heartburn over sleeping and eating and boogers everywhere, but we figure that is what we signed up for when we decided we were big enough to have kids. Anyways, here are a few fun pictures from the last couple of weeks:

I don't know how it is possible to fall asleep over such a delicious meal as McChicken McNuggets, but Finn found a way.

We have a new way of entertaining the boy when we need to get some things done around the house. We sit him on "Henry", his octopus chair (thanks Grannie Kris), and put him a foot away from the T.V. It works for about 5-10 minutes.

Watching "Robin Hood". Every town has its ups and downs. Sometimes ups outnumber the downs. But not in Nottingham.

Finndy.

We went to the Jazz-Nuggets game here in Denver a couple of weeks ago (thanks for the tickets Neil and Beck) and the Jazz got worked. They play again here this Wednesday and Jesse is going on a man-date to the game. If they don't win, he will probably burn the green shirt.

This seems to be the only way Lindy can get Finn to sleep in his crib.

Yes... That is Lindy sleeping in Finn's crib with him. What a spoiled little stink we are raising!