More Montana pics

Alex, Lyndsie, and Sammy tubing.
Lyndsie and Sammy.
Josh and Nathan ready to go for a ride.
Jessie and Alex on the jetski.

Josh is 16. Happy Birthday Josh - 7/12/07

We had more visitors from Chicago in June. Our friends Daniela, Hugo, twins Stephanie and Lexie (10), Matthew (4), and Daniel (6) came for a week and we had great fun showing them around.
We went to our favorite little hiking spot at Garden of the Gods, and to Waterworld Water Park another day.
Daniela, Hugo and the two girls went rafting one day while the two boys enjoyed hanging out with Josh and the other Puccini kids.
We also took a ride up to the Continental Divide where it was quite chilly way up there.

We had a visit from Jenny, Ryan and Reese and Carissa. We had quite a great time and hated when they left.
Reese is quite a happy, content baby.

We went down to the 16th street mall (I made everyone stand behind these silly animals), we also went and bowled, played laser tag, miniature golfed, and rode bumper cars. Everyone over 10 and under 40 went to the show, most went to our outdoor zoo and we were introduced to "So you think you can dance" on TV. We had a great time and can't wait till they can come again.
Nathan is showing off his new metal-less mouth!

The girls and mom, and two of their friends, drove to Durango (just 370 miles away) on May 11th for a soccer tournament. This was the view from our condo -- beautiful!
Sammy,
Alex, and
Jessie all made up to play hard.
And play hard they did, the results weren't what they'd hoped for but they all played well and had a great time too.

Josh and Lexi! Bob went to Amsterdam again and all Josh got was that lousy t-shirt (jk)!!

April 24th: on my return from Montana this is what we get.
April 25th: the kids have a snow day from school.
Nathan and Sammy aren't working too hard!
Alex had to come in and unload the dishwasher. She wasn't happy, believe it or not she wanted to stay outside shovelling (I think she was actually playing/fighting with Sammy and Nathan).