Camping, POH, Rocks, Tubs, Splash Pads and more!

I Don't know why everyone has been telling me 

"medical school is hard for the students but it's even harder for their wives!"!?

 I've been having a BLAST SO FAR!! 

There are so many fun and free things to do all over Colorado and I have made so many amazing friends already! 

i'm thinking these next fews years may be easier than I was dreading!

When I first moved here I got called by another first year wife asking if I wanted to bring Evie and go to the beach with her and some other first year wives, I went and it's been a party ever since! We have girls nights, play dates, book club, morning walks, and more on a weekly basis! I've been more social in the last 2 months than I have in the last 3 years! and Evie and I are LOVING it!! So, because we are doing SO much here this post is a MASS overload of pictures from our first few weeks in Denver! 

I'm sorry to say though, since I have SO MUCH in this post already I'm going to put off Athens for another couple days. Sorry those who were waiting to hear about Greece!

So one of my FAVORITE things about Denver are their FREE splash pads!! They have one thats right by our house and it's the most legit splash pad i've ever seen and Evie is FEARLESS when it comes to these things!! In the pic below, this is her first 10 seconds at her first splash pad EVER! I didn't even have her sunscreen on her yet and she took off head on into this spiral water shooter!! 

.the 2 pictures below that one are 10 seconds after the first picture was taken ha ha ha. 

wild woman! I love it!

This is Ambry and Kori with their babies! They are champion mamma's and i love them!

This is the public splash pad

We went with Evies friends Halie and Cameron

 Cameron kept drinking the fountain ha ha ha ha He is too funny!

Evie and him have this hilarious love hate relationship going on.

They are the closest in age and Cameron is quiet the ladies man ;) 

and Evie isn't quiet sure how to deal with him

(heres an example of that..) 

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Since Brandon and I were in Egypt on our anniversary we didn't REALLY get to celebrate it "just the two of us" so we decided to have a "Fake-Aversary" one month later on August 18th!

Since it was B's year to plan the event he surprised me and took me to the parade of homes!!

. I love this man.

(p.s Parade of Homes is FREE in Colorado!... yes FREE!!!)

My favorite house had this AMAZING 3 story court yard in the middle of the floor plan! Every patio had an amazing dining room or a beautiful hammock and the BEST part... there was an art studio attached to the house with a private balcony out into to court yard above a lions head fountain...

. I was in love. 

It reminded me of this place we stayed at in Rome, I took a million pictures of it and I took even more at this house! I came home and drew out the floor pan as best I could remember because I WILL build this house for B and I someday, and I can no longer accept anything less than a private balcony into Rome off my art studio ha ha ha ha 

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Now for the best part!

The Doctors had their first final and it was on a friday!

Which means NO BOOKS, NO ASSIGNMENTS, NO TESTS, NO NOTHING ALL WEEKEND!!

So, we wives took that opportunity for a much needed camping trip!

We decided since none of our babies had been camping yet it would be good to take them all together so we can all help each other out (much better than going with a bunch of "single couples" and trying to manage a baby)

Well.... our trip was... an experience ha ha ha

We got to our camp ground and about 3 minutes into setting up our tents it started to DOWNPOUR!! 

and I mean DOWNPOUR! We're talking, hail, wind, the whole thing!

All the girls grabbed the babies and headed for the cars while the boys faced the storm and finished up the tents

Me and E hung out for a while in the car

took pics

ate Pringles

try to lick the rain off the window...

Once the rain stopped we came back to the camp site to 3 soaking wet men

After that, camping and babies was CRAZY!

The entire site was flooded and we have water babies!

We had to follow babies around all afternoon and give them the 

"nooooo... we don't play in puddles.." talk

and then face the "BAAAHHH NO PUDDLES" melt downs afterwards

.so fun. 

we had babies sitting in puddles, falling in the mud, picking up mud balls and of course...

playing in puddles

so after  cleaning off outfits with wet whipes and water and making a few "drying trips" to the bathroom hand dryers

we decided to just hang out in tents for the next little bit...

 

After the ground dried up and we decided to be brave and let the babies out Evie went into outdoor adventure mode! 

She kept wandering off into the woods on random trails!

Sometimes she wouldn't even find a trail! She'd just start trekking through the woods!!

She even convinced Cameron to come on a few off road adventures

Once it was dry enough we tried to start a fire...

that was a joke..

Firewood up here cost us an arm and a leg so we only bought enough to make dinner and squeeze in a smore or two!

I'm obsessed with Halies little reindeer outfit! ha ha ha

Since we had no fire to sit around we all hung out in our tent and played games till late which was a blast! It was so nice to see our husbands so relaxed and worry free for a few hours.

That night it blew like hurricane Katrina

and of course E slept like a rock through the entire night!

In the morning we had a nice.... smokey.... breakfast and sat around the last bit of our sad fire until it died out. Then we decided to pack up and head on home

It was a little chaotic but it was SO fun to get out into the woods for a night!

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So here is an update on our stinker Evie

She's 14 months now and in FULL SWING toddler mode!

She was a handful when she learned to walk but now it's almost impossible!

She is so independent and smart she just makes me crazy

when she's walking away from me and I say "Evie... you come back here please..."

she won't turn and look at me she'll just freeze in her steps for a few minutes until I forget to look at her again and then she takes off again!

She thinks when I say "NO!" it's funny...

I have no disciplinary handle at all on her because she thinks i'm just playing with her!

I have a lamp on the arm of the sofa and she'll go smack it! So i'll pull her down and give her a big, firm, "EVIE NO NO! We DON'T smack moms lamp!" and she'll just give me her big cheese burger smile and climb back up and smack it again!!! 

She just knows how to push my buttons and will do anything to do so!

I think my only option at this point is boot camp ... or boarding school...

The other thing we're doing now is REFUSING to get out of the tub!

She will freeze to death for 10 minutes in an empty tub rather than get out when I ask her to!

... freakin' stinker...

There are rock pits surrounding our apartments and EVERY time we go in or out of the house we MUST stop and pick up 2 rocks and take them with us...

So I have a PILE of rocks in my car and in my house...

. yup.

So instead of making her put them back right then and having an ear splitting scream come my way I just let her bring them along and throw them out every 3 or 4 days.

.sigh. 

well congratulations! you've finally made it to the end of this never ending post :) 

glad you came, glad you stayed!

Next blog will be Greece I promise!!