Uncle Steve Graduates

Last Friday night we met the fam in Boulder for drinks and dinner and then headed to CU's basketball arena to watch Uncle Steve graduate!!! I can't believe he is headed off to college in the fall and we are so proud of him! The ceremony started pretty late and lasted long past Payton's bedtime, but she was a trooper. I missed most of the event due to chasing her around, but I saw the important parts and even managed to snap some pictures.

Sorry the pictures are a little out of order...

Payton sported her CU gear to celebrate since Uncle Steve is headed there in August! He will be the 6th in the Baumgarten clan to attend there.

My failed attempt to catch the hat toss

She's so proud of her uncle!!

My parents had a party to celebrate on Sunday, hard to believe he is my baby brother!

Our Weekend

On Friday I took a break from working and Payton and I joined Melissa and Madi at the Zoo for Payton's first visit. The weather had been cold and rainy here for several days, but Friday was 70 degrees and sunny so it was perfect zoo weather. Payton couldn't always spot the animals, but the ones she could see she waved and said hi and ooohed at them. It was such a gorgeous day and a perfect way to spend time together. I got some pictures of the baby goats, lots of babies there right now. Payton was on the move most of the time so I only got a few pictures and I forgot to take one of Melissa and Madi.

Friday night we drove down to Denver with Josh and Kelsey to visit with some long-time family friends that were in town. I didn't take any pictures but our friend Carla took a bunch so I will try to get them from her. Our dinner reservations were at 7:30 (Payton goes to bed 7:30 - 8) so we weren't sure how long we would be able to stay, but she went strong until we left at 10:30 and didn't melt down until the drive home. She was up at 6:15 of course Saturday morning, so we paid for keeping her out late, but it was worth getting to see old friends!

Saturday night we dropped Payton at the Eruchalus and drove back down to South Denver to celebrate Kelsey's birthday. We had dinner at Lime which has awesome Mexican food and margaritas and then walked over the the dueling piano bar down the street and enjoyed some live music. We had a blast hanging out with the crew and made it another late night.

Gail, me and Kelsey

We had a really fun weekend going out both nights and still managed to get the house cleaned, laundry done and grocery shop, but we are wiped and calling it an early night.

Happy Birthday Aunt Kelsey, thanks for inviting us to celebrate with you we hope you had fun!

Hope you all had a nice weekend!!



First Easter

This was Payton's first Easter as last year she was born on the Tuesday after Easter. We had been practicing "hunting" for eggs all week. I would put a few of them around the house, in plain sight of course, and Payton quickly caught on to the game of collecting them in her basket. She even figured out that they opened and spent a lot of time opening them and trying to put them back together.

Payton's Easter basket, we bought some eggs for her, but the rest was a mix of gifts from others. She's one loved little girl!

In her Easter dress, courtesy of Lauren

All that practicing and she wanted nothing to do with "hunting" for eggs today. She's had a rough couple of days with those five teeth that are coming in and wasn't really in the mood to celebrate today. This was the closest she got to a smile.

Click this link to watch a little Easter video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ToO3YqAFjk 

We started the day with brunch at Papa's with Debra's famous french toast, these were at each place setting, she always sets a beautiful table!

We spend the second half of the day at Nana's where we played dominoes, various outdoor street sports and had a wonderful Easter dinner. Payton is wearing the bib her great grandma Audrey sent, but again not in the mood to smile. Hopefully these teeth come in soon and she gets some relief, poor baby.

Thanks to all for having us over to celebrate and for the wonderful food, we love you!!

Happy Easter!!

The Cure for Diaper Rash

At our house anyway...

Nashville

We took a little kid-free getaway last weekend to Nashville, TN to celebrate Jenn turning 30! We had so much fun touring the town, hitting the honky-tonks for live music, sleeping in, doing what we wanted when we wanted. We are all big country music fans and Jenn has always wanted to visit Nashville so we called in reinforcements (Grandma and Grandpa) and spent our first weekend away from Payton. The weather wasn't great, as you'll see in some of the pictures, but we didn't let it stop us.

On Saturday it was raining and windy so we took a trolley tour of the city. We were the only ones on the trolley so we ended up getting a private, off-the-map tour of Nashville which was a lot of fun.

The purple bar in the middle is "Tootsies", I think it's pretty well known and Saturday afternoon there was a guy playing that is a friend of friends of the Harms family so we hung out there for a while and listened to his band. They were pretty good!

Kole's drinking cap...

It's been a while since we let loose together, but we made up for lost time!

This was our second trip (as a couple, I have travelled with them a few times) with the Trujillos and we always have a great time. It's a good thing we didn't bring the kids, because I'm pretty sure Jenn would have stayed!

This is Margaritaville, we may or may not have had a few drinks by this time and may or may not have been the only ones dancing...  :)

We didn't stop to have a drink at the Pedal Bar, but had to get a picture

On our way out we finally made it in to the Wild Horse Saloon, another really well known restaurant/bar in Nashville. It's 3 stories with a couple of bars on each floor and a huge stage you can see from the whole place, we'll have to check it out more the next time we go.

We missed Payton, but it was nice to get away to recharge and reconnect. Not sure she missed us that much having Grandma and Grandpa's undivided attention for the weekend. Thank's for taking such wonderful care of our baby girl!!

Nashville is a really pretty, clean city with PLENTY to do, see and listen too all hours of the day. Jenn, thank you for inviting us to celebrate with you, we had a blast!! Happy Birthday Old Woman!

Love you guys :)