So to wrap up my birthday month we went to Heritage Square with our friends Jake and Sarah.  They had their two little girls with them; Zoey and Charlee.  Charlee is only two days older than Colton!  So, Austin and Zoey had a fun time running around the carnival and riding all the rides.  Colton and Charlee had a fun time riding in their strollers next to eachother!  Austin went down the alpine slide with his daddy!  He wasn't nervous or scared at all.  It was a little scary watching him on the ski lift but he sat still and Brian held on to him of course!  So, Colton started crawling!  He still does a lot of scooting because I think it is faster for him but he did crawl two nights ago for the first time!  Colton loves clapping his hands and playing hide-n-seek.  We are working on "sooooo big" (which Austin thinks is hilarious because "Colton is just a baby Mommy"!) 

Lake Dillon, CO

We had a fantastic vacation in Dillon, CO.  The boys had such a good time and were excellent little vactioners!  We went to Vail on Thursday and got to ride in a Gondola up the side of the mountian.  At the top we ate lunch and there were a lot of activities for little kiddos, such as the trampoline that Austin tried out!  He loved it and kept asking the guy working if he could please go higher!  Saturday afternoon Annie, Courtney and I took the boys over to Keystone for the jazz festival that was going on.  Again, there were lots of activities for kiddos!  We spent a lot of time hanging out at the house we rented.  We brought Austin's baseball stuff and his soccer ball so he was running around outside a lot of the time too!  Colton started clapping last Wednesday!!  He had a Dr. appointment and he now weights in at 19 lbs 12 oz and he is 29" tall.  So, he is growing and staying steady with the other babies his age!  Today was hard for all of us to get out of bed.  We are definitely all tired after such a fun filled vacation.  Austin wanted to go to Iowa this morning in Nick's truck instead of going to the babysitters!  Hopefully we will be back in Iowa sometime soon!

This afternoon I walked into Ausitn's room where he was playing.  Mommy:  "What are you doing Austin?"  Austin: "Just horsing around mommy.  What are you doing?"  He's so cute!

Annie and Papa got Austin a baseball tee, bat and ball!  He was so excited to get swinging that we were outside in our jammies!!!  We showed him a couple of times how to do it and now he tends to hit the ball every time he swings.  He's a natural little athlete!  Colton loved watching Austin and he loved throwing the ball around. 

Colton's Baptism

Colton was baptised on July 23rd after 5pm mass.  He did such a great job.  He watched the priest very closely the entire time and even reached out to touch the book he was reading from.  He tried to touch the candle Uncle Jon was holding and he didn't make a peep when the water was poured over his head.  It was a very nice ceremony!  At one point the priest had all of us make the sign of the cross with our thumb on Colton's forehead.  Austin also wanted to do this so he leaned over to Colton and accidentally stuck his finger up Colton's nose.  It was quite funny and we were wishing we would've had the video camera to catch it on tape.  Austin was a very supportive big brother.  He prayed right along with all of us and whenever we had to repeat anything Austin repeated it as well.  . . . Oh, and I made my very first ever angel food cake with homemade frosting for the occasion!!  (Everyone said it tasted good!!)

I know it is a little hard to tell what is happening in this picture.  Colton is laying on his tummy in his crib and Brian is trying to get him to crawl down to him in the crib.  Brian lined up a bunch of little toys in the crib and Colton thinks it is fun at first.  Brian and Austin stand at the end saying, "come on Colton, you can do it Colton"  Then Colton stops thinking it is fun and starts to fuss and cry.  Brian tries to continue to coax Colton to crawl and/or move himself around in his bed but Colton isn't having it.  Then Austin, the dutiful big brother, will look at Brian and say something like, "Daddy, he just wants his toy" and Austin will move the toys closer so that Colton can reach them.  Colton and Austin are both then happy and Austin thinks his mommy and daddy are crazy for putting toys out of Colton's reach!!  Pretty hard to tell Austin to stop when he is just trying to be a good big brother!!

Here are a few pictures of the entire family enjoying the new pool!  It is long enough that Brian fits in it so Austin loves all the running around he can do.  We filled it all the way and then emptied half of the water out so that Colton could sit in it too.  Colton loves to sit and splash with his arms and kick with his legs.  Quick note:  Colton has two more teeth coming in at top so he actually has a total of three little teeth trying to make their way in all at the same time.  Now his crabiness is completely understood . . . poor little guy!!