We've had beautiful weather here as of late, but today began the thunderstorms.....that are expected to continue through the weekend.  We do need the rain, so I guess it's a good thing :) 
Kendall and I went to lunch with daddy today, went for a walk and managed to fit some cleaning in.  Kendall loves to help clean...her favorite is to use the toilet brush to clean the toilet.  Hopefully that keeps up into her teen years :)

Daddy leaves next Wednesday for Alaska, so I'm off to work tomorrow for the next five days in a row in order to fit all my shifts in so that I can be off while he is gone.  I can't believe that May is already approaching!  Man time flies!!

Enjoying the sunshine!!

Oooops mommy, look at my hands!!

We've got a floater!!!  Oooooops!!  :)  Look real closely.....

Kendall and I spent the day yesterday on the trails in beautiful downtown Colorado Springs.  It was a little chilly with the wind and as the sun went behind the clouds, but nevertheless we had a great time!!  Now daddy and Kendall get to spend time together this weekend while I work at the hospital.  They are heading to the Pet Expo tomorrow!!  Pics to come....

Chatting with 'Dukey' .......

Where has the time gone?  We celebrated Derek's 29th birthday at the Denver Aquarium on Saturday.  Kendall is infatuated with fish, so we thought it would be the perfect fit.  Although it was Derek's birthday on Friday the 13th (boo hoo ha ha!), he had to work, so we opted to go to the Aquarium on Saturday.  Kendall did pretty well considering her attention span is a mere 2.5 minutes at this age.  She loved seeing all the fish and was even able to touch some star fish and sting rays!!

Checking out the BIG fish!

Here 'fishy fishy'

Look at the sharks!!

Touching the star fish with dad :)

It was a beautiful day, so after we visited the Aquarium, we walked around Denver and enjoyed the sunshine :)

Hope you had a great birthday Derek!  Kendall and I look forward to the many more years of celebrating birthdays with you!!  We love you!!

One of our biggest accomplishments with teaching Kendall the concept of "what's real" has been sending her "nu nu" (pacifier) to heaven for all the babies there.  It has been just over a week without them and she has been doing great.  Occasionally she will ask for them and we respond with, "Where did your 'nu nus' go?"  She always replies with, "heaven."  So I'll say we succeeded at that task while teaching her to do something good for someone else  :)