roommate field trip to celestial seasonings to take the factory tour (hairnets required, obviously)!

what a great way to spend a snow day. it snowed 20 inches and we took the factory tour instead of lounging at home.
looking at the photos, it seems i was more enthralled with all the people i was with than with the tour, whoopsy. sorry i'm not sorry! emerson was the big winner of the day; he was well-versed in celestial seasonings trivia and was given a calendar for it!

emerson's 22nd. a good night all around.



since moving, i've discovered how important holidays are. we aren't around our families (both our first families and adopted cutters family!) since we live so far from them, and it's really easy to forget about making special days special or to gloss over them and think that it can't be a special day without our whole family around. i've realized it's so important to celebrate birthdays and national holidays (even today, valentine's day) to help those days stand out and create memories.... maybe it'll spur me to make every day a holiday.

here's to today being special.

all of this is totally normal....

yep. looks like a typical day. boys on bikes in the living room, watching the tour of flanders and trying to outsprint the racers... while emerson cuts the sleeves off of a Jelly Belly "Proud to Bean American" shirt.






how could i not love my life?

i convinced the roommates yesterday to take a trip to the denver art museum for the day (it was free admission day, no less!) the boys decided that we should start roommate field trips (which i love!), and the first one was a smashing success. the highlight of the trip was making our own postcards in the western art exhibit which are now the first pieces of art to grace our refrigerator. yes, it was an activity meant for small children, and yes, we did sit next to several children whose drawings were notably better than mine. stay tuned for the next field trip, but enjoy this one for now:



















feeling more at home every day.