summer fun in the bings

we're pretty excited to be back in "colorado bings," as laurel calls it. i'll try not to rub it in for all of my southern friends and family, but i just can't get over how nice the weather is here right now. we can have coffee on the back deck in the morning, and laurel and i eat lunch out there most days. can you imagine? i'm trying to soak it all up so i'll remember what i have to look forward to when it's still snowing next "spring" in may.

we've already had visitors!

joey and gwen and julie came out for their friends' wedding up near denver. they drove all the way from oxford. yikes! it was a quick visit, but it was so good to have them here!

we had another visitor last week, but failed to get a picture. paul sheets was in town and had dinner with us. paul was the very first person pat met when he came to the academy as a cadet in 1996. it was great to catch up with him, and we can't wait til he and laura come back for the 10 year reunion in september.

*laurel didn't have much to do with paul when he was here that night, but in typical fashion, her first words the next morning were "mommy, where paul sheets?!?"*

p and i put together this little glider. we're pretty proud of ourselves. it wasn't as easy as the box said it would be...

laurel's second, and my first, skysox baseball game. it was sold out, so we had to sit in the grass. as you can see from pat's and laurel's pants, the grass was just a little wet. also, we need to work on laurel's "cheese" face. wow.