andy-roo's birthday!

 For Andrew's birthday this year, i got to surprise him with a whole day of fun!. Thanks to our super grandparents we got to drop the kids off at their house and LEAVE them OVERNIGHT!!

But first Will and the girls helped me with a surprise breakfast in bed.

After we delivered the kids to grandma's house Andrew and i drove to the mtns. to cross-country ski. Actually "ski" is kind of an exaggeration: the trail was pretty steep and icy and since i  haven't been on any kind of skis for at least a couple years i spent more time sliding and falling. Finially i let the birthday boy carry my skis in his back pack while he skied the rest of the way and i hiked on foot! :) That was after i had lost one of my skis over the edge and he had to hike down in 4 ft. drifts to retrieve it! we like to keep things exciting. anyway, once we got to the lake the snow was much better and the ground was much flatter so we had a great time skiing around there!

 

you think andrew might be demonstrating a certain someone's clumsiness??

a beautiful mtn. sunset

After we got back home we went out to dinner and saw a late movie. Then, since it was only 11:00pm and we didn't have any kids to get home to, we thought we should really live it up. Apparently we've been parents for too long as we couldn't really think of anything to do except get coffee at a super fun new coffee place in greeley that's actually open until 12:00am.whoa. It's called Zoe's. By 11:45 we were feeling tired and achy and had to go home and get some advil.

Thanks for having a birthday Andrew- you are Super fun to hang with! love you!

**disclaimer: wanted to make sure everyone knew that as THRILLED as we were to have 24 hours without our sweet kids, we really did miss them and love them, and talked about them and were excited to pick them up the next day... just thought i should make that clear :)