Savannah

On our way to Birmingham...we made a quick stop in Savannah, GA.

We walked the River Walk.

Ate dinner at The Pirate House, the oldest building in Savannah...Argh.

Pirate?

The road to Wormsloe...Spanish moss.

Fun at Lake Gaston

We drove to Virginia at the end of June to visit Grandma Gail, Grandpa Tom, Aunt Marcy, Uncle Stuart, Aunt Kel, Lily and Jack at Lake Gaston. We spent 2 weeks at the lake.

Casey on the sea doo with Grandma and Lily...3...2...1...blast off!

Collecting shells at "Lily's Island" with Grandpa.

Garrett cruising in the matrix with Mommy, Jack and Lily.

The slip n' slide was a huge hit this year!

Taking a breather and striking a pose.

Garrett picked up some freckles at the Lake.

Serious pontoon driving

Sea dooing on the slip n' slide...Garrett sporting a new clean cut look.

Garrett is ready to fly...not this year though...a little too squirmy.

Casey is ready to fly again.

and their off...

They flew over the Lake this time.

A Couple Birthdays and End of Kindergarten

Easter egg hunt in Frisco with Dillon and Connor

Easter breakfast with bunny ears

The Easter bunny came and the kids found the eggs. Casey was such a helper to her little brother. She gave him hints and let him find the easy ones.

Happy Birthday Mommy!

Happy 6th Birthday Casey! We celebrated with her annual Abasin party.

The Summit Cove Kindergarteners took a field trip to the Denver Aquarium. I was a chaperone and this was my group, Milo, Carston, Hayden, Casey, Taylor and Jonas.

We went camping in Goblin Valley, Utah in May.

It looked like Star Wars...or a bunch of mushrooms.

Not a bad view from our campsite.

The last day of Kindergarten...Ms. Michaels/Ms. Hurds class. Casey had a great year and met some good friends. Her best friends were Hayden and Taylor. Her favorite part of school was PE.

Stan coached Casey's Tball team again this Spring, The Hot Rods.

The Hot Rods were pretty good this year. Casey was good hitting and running and is getting better at throwing and catching.

We went camping at Jackson Lake State Park with Mark and Amy and Amy's parents, who brought their ski boat. Though it may look warm in the picture, it was cold and the water was freezing! Stan and I each got to ski/wakeboard, but it didn't last long.

1st Quarter of 2014

We have been tweeting away, but have not kept up with our blog. So I figured I'd add some pix and videos of our January through April activities.

 

Daddy's birthday on March 4th

Garrett is putting sentences together now. So instead of "my turn" he says, "it's my turn now." "Mommy, upstairs whiff me."

He has a monster voice that he uses every once in a while to make a point, especially when we are not paying 100% attention to him.
He is learning his colors, he knows pink and orange really well.
He is still obsessed with snowboards, skateboards and guitars. We got my old guitar from my parents over Christmas for the kids and Garrett loves to carry it around. Whenever we talk about going upstairs he says, "Ah geetar." (guitar). He also loves playing the drums and so do we:)
We just got him a snowboard to finish out the season and he is a shredder. Stan took him to Keystone yesterday and he did not want to stop. It snowed like crazy today so we went outside for a good 30 runs down the driveway.

cross country skiing

Casey is still loving school. She is a great reader...really good at sounding out words.She knows her 3 & 4 letter sight words really well and loves to practice with her flash cards at dinner. She can read all kinds of books and most importantly, she comprehends what she is reading. She even reads with a little emotion.
She is still involved with Daisy Scouts every other Monday.
She was in gymnastics these past 2 months which she really enjoyed. They had her twirling around the bars; walking forward and backward on the high balance beam and jumping off; working on front rolls, back rolls and cartwheels. She almost has the cartwheel down. She will start up again at the end of April.
We go skiing almost every weekend. She is working on her parallel turns now. She has conquered the wide box in the mini park at Keystone and has hit a couple of the narrow boxes too. She also learned how to cross country ski with Mom & Dad. It's been a fun Winter.

Sitting with her classmates including Sofie, Elizabeth and Hayden at the Mexico Mercado Assembly.

The Daisy's got a visit from the Summit County Sheriff's office at one of their meetings. The girls donated 10 cases of cookeis to the officers. The officers let the girls play with the sirens, lights and CB's. They also got to meet the only Summit County police dog.

Daisy Leprechauns

Casey & Mom on the chairlift

Such a shredder

With their cross country skis

On February 18th, Grandma Gail, Grandpa Tom and Rimsky drove out to visit. It was a busy week of skiing, going to Garrett's tumbling, and Casey's gymnastics. Friday, we visited Casey's school, met her teachers and ate school lunch (pizza) in the cafeteria.

Aunt Marcy, Uncle Stuart, Lily and Jack arrived February 22nd . We all (except Garrett) got to ski together a couple days before Grandma & Grandpa headed home. The cousins had a great time skiing and playing together and did really well sleeping in the same room all week, including Garrett.

Grandpa & Grandma with the Grandkids

lunch at Casey school

 some pool time with Connor, Dillon and Jack

Me & Marcy

Aunt Kelly & Bodie drove out April 7th and are visiting with us for another week. We got to snowboard at Vail on Wednesday, a beautiful Spring day; Keystone on Friday and Keystone again with Casey, Dillon & Connor on Saturday.

The year is flying by already...we started tweeting this year. As you can see it is posted on our blog or you can follow us at twitter.com/twrightward. I will try and add updates and videos as much as I can on the blog.

Christmas

Family Photo at Denver Botanical Gardens Holiday Lights...don't mind the reflector on Stan's jacket!

We drove to Virginia for Christmas, arriving at Grandma Gail and Grandpa Tom's house on Friday, Dec 20th. We had a belated birthday party for Garrett which included yummy ice cream cake and a new scooter.

Making Christmas Cookies with Aunt Kel, Aunt Marcy, Lily and Jack at Grandma Gail and Grandpa Tom's house.

Santa came to visit on Christmas Eve.

After crying when Santa first came in, Garrett pulled it together to accept his present from Santa.

Christmas morning...Jack, Garrett, Casey and Lily are ready to see what Santa left for them.

Santa brought Stan a beard...

 Casey got what she asked for from Santa...American Girl doll, Kit Kitteridge.

We then headed to Roanoke to celebrate Christmas again with Gramma Lois. Aunt Lisa, Ashlynne, Morganne and Max came up from Alabama.

Horsing Around

Cheesing with Aunt Lisa

We also got to see Aunt Cousin Blair, Uncle Cousin Chad, Grayson and Everett in town from Oklahoma. We visited the Science Museum and Butterfly Pavilion with them, as well as, Aunt Linda and Uncle Marvin. The kids got to touch horseshoe crabs, starfish and sea urchins. Look how brave Everett and Garrett were.

Though you can't tell in this photo with Gramma Lois...Casey was a little freaked out in the Butterfly Pavilion...she absolutely did not one of them to land on her.

Who bought these kids drums?
Oh their parents did!
I think we bought them more for us than for them;)
Garrett is a big fan of them. He'll drum away, then say, "Daddy's turn." "Mommy's turn." 
For a couple weeks after getting back from Christmas, Garrett was walking around with a guitar magazine saying, "Geetah." He wanted to sit in the rocking chair and read it, show the pictures to everyone, look for the green Geetahs. He then added a tiny skateboard to his group. So then it was, "geetah. saboard." He then moved onto Sport Illustrated magazine and pointed to every ball he could find, "foobah, bazebah, bassbah."

Casey will play the drums every once in a while, however, her passion is singing. She has a microphone plugged into Stan's old amp and she likes to belt out made up song after made up song.

We arrived home the weekend before school started. We had a great trip to the East Coast. It was fun visiting everyone and we appreciate the hospitality!!  Happy New Year to everyone.