Laurel is in Governor's school for 4th and 5th graders this week and next. She got invited to drama school and she had her auditions yesterday and today. She got the part she wanted!! Yeah Laurel! Congratulations! She is "Cat" in Honk Jr.!! Will she bat 100% for roles she is going for this summer? Cruella DeVille is next on her list!

Laurel had her talent show today. Here is a video of her performance.

chrysalis Tyler

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Happy Birthday,Gavin!

We met Scott for lunch so Gavin could have birthday lunch with his daddy.

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Driving to Boulder

The flatirons are amazing!

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More pretty butterflies

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Chrysalis Ruby

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Chrysalis Gavin

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Tyler & Ruby playing with Scott

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Gavin & Ruby playing on the giant caterpillar at the Butterfly Pavilion

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Checking out the chrysalis house

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Amazing flowers at the Butterfly Pavilion

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One butterfly decided he liked Nannie's camera.

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My phone doesn't take the best pictures, but the butterflies and flowers were gorgeous!

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Uncle Scott held Tyler up so he could see some butterflies drinking nectar.

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Beautiful butterflies at the Butterfly Pavilion.

Laurel, you would love the green ones. I tried to get a picture of the real one but it wouldn't land.

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Today we went to the Butterfly Pavilion.

There was a water area where the kids could touch horseshoe crabs, hermit crabs, starfish, pencil urchins, etc.

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Excellent dinner by an excellent chef...

Finally got a picture of my brother after about 10 tries (because he can't be serious enough for 5 minutes). He made a delicious dinner of marinated tri-tips with a bleu cheese cream sauce and scalloped potatoes and mom made a yummy salad with a champagne dressing. I tried their syrah...Chuck, you would love this wine...you should go see if you can find it.

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As we came down from Red Rock we saw a man coming up the mountain...in the rain...on a ...

UNICYCLE!

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Tyler & Nannie found a cactus on the hike up to Red Rocks.

He wanted me to take a picture of it for you, Zachary. He was sad he couldn't bring it to you to show your class!

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Tyler running down the seats.

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View from the top

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View of the backside of the theater.

Right after this picture it started thundering so we ran down the stairs and down the steep path & made it to the car just as the rain started coming down.

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Tyler at the top patio.

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We made it! The view from the top.

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Tyler is almost there with mom not far behind

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View of the stage from about halfway up.

Gavin started following us up the stairs, but he didn't follow for long.

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The view from the Red Rocks Amphitheater stage

Tyler is climbing the seats...he is toward the right in grey.

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Hiking up to the Red Rocks Amphitheater...

After Dino Ridge, we went over the ridge to Red Rocks. Nannie, Tyler, Ruby & I took a little break while we waited on Christie & Gavin. If you look closely, you can see the Denver skyline in the background.

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Tyler was very interested in the footprints our guide was showing us.

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Aunt Christie & Ruby riding the Dinosaur Ridge Shuttle

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Gavin on the shuttle

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Tyler in front of some fossils...

The darker spots above his head are supposedly the fossils.

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Tyler with Red Rocks Amphitheater in the background

We went to Dinosaur Ridge today and this was the view...we went to Red rock later.

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Red Rocks

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Aunt Christie, Gavin & Ruby watching Thomas the train after breakfast

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Good morning Ruby

I put Ruby on Tyler's bed this morning and he helped her with her bottle...he's so sweet with his. cousins!

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Atticus was worn out from our walk...

so was Maisy, but I couldn't even find her to take her picture.

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Still in bloom

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We found an Eastern Redbud in the park...in Denver!

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Tyler and the Dinosaur...

outside the Denver Museum of Natural History. We plan on visiting this museum ...especially the Pirate exhibit later in the week.

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Great views of the Denver skyline and mountains from in front of the Museum of Nature and Science

Right before this picture, we were climbing on the rocks and we heard music..."THE ICE CREAM MAN IS COMING!!" I yelled! Luckily I had $2.00 in my pocket! That amount of money didn't allow many choices, but Tyler was happy with the fact that he could get an ice cream!

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After the festival we walked to the park. Tyler got in some more rock climbing.

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Tyler & the medivac pilot

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Tyler in the backseat of the helicopter that we got to watch land 5 minutes before this picture was taken

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Tyler and Gavin riding the train...

they didn't get to ride long because they had to stop the train and move all the people back to allow for the helicopter to land. We had a front row seat! It was really cool...the copter circled many times and finally landed about 30 feet in front of us. We got pelted with dust and debris and my camera won't open now due to all the dust, but it was worth it!

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Tyler getting his tatoo

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Miss Ruby at Celebrate Family Day Festival

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Growling the bear at BPS

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And who was egging him on?

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My rock climber outside BPS

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