Blake's Birthday Weekend!

Blake's 4th Birthday Party at Pump it Up

This past weekend we celebrated Blake's birthday... we really spoiled him! His weekend started on Friday June 12th (his actual Birthday) Ryan and I took Blake along with my sister Jenny and her niece Dalacie to Water World. I was nervous the weather wouldn't hold out for us, but it ended up being a beautiful morning/afternoon! We took Blake on a few water slides with tunnels and thru a fun house, he floated in the lazy river and played in the wave pool, he had a blast! We left Water world around 3:30 picked Brooklyn up from daycare then got ready for dinner at Rosies Diner (Blake's favorite restaurant to go to for his birthday) after dinner we came home to give him his birthday present from Ryan, Brooklyn, Jen, Ken, Papa, M0, Chris and myself...we all chipped in to buy Blake a trampoline...he was so excited, he wanted Ryan to put it up right then! Saturday we had lunch with Ryan's cousin Bill & Shelagh and their 2 kids then headed over to Pump it Up for Blake's Birthday Party! He loved Pump it Up, and what made his birthday even more special was his little crush from school showed up to his party...Blake and Brinn (His school crush) were inseperable! Blake had one of the best birthdays yet, It will be hard to top it, but I wouldn't want anything less for my sweet son!

Daddy, Blake & Mommy at Water World


Blake with all of his friends at Pump it Up


Blake at Water World


Blake jumping on his new trampoline (he doesn't look excited at all...smirk)

Reflection of the last 4 years.....

Today we celebrated Blake's 4th birthday... I sit back and wonder where all that time has gone? It doesn't seem possible that out sweet & charming baby boy is turning 4... I guess he's really not a baby anymore, he's our young man now!!! The past year Blake has grown up so much he has learned and accomplished so many things, he became a big brother, he started pre school, he played soccer and t-ball, he can recite his home phone number & the pledge of alligence as well as spell his own name and that's just to name a few! I can hardly beleive that next year he will start kindergarten! We are so proud of him, and the little man that he is turning out to be!

Happy Birthday to our precious son, the center of our universe, our pride & joy, we love you so much our little boy!!!


Blake Ryan Burke
June 12, 2005 @ 9:52am
8lbs, 8oz 21 1/2 inches long


Blake's 1st Birthday
June 12, 2006


Blake's 2nd Birthday
June 12, 2007


Blake's 3rd Birthday
June 12, 2008


Blake's 4th Birthday
June 12, 2009

Memorial Day Weekend

This past weekend we celebrated Memorial Day... we had made big plans to go camping up in Sterling with a group of friends, but after checking the weather forecast to find that it was Raining and a high of 60 we decided to postpone the camping trip until July and hang around town! Although we were really looking forward to camping we still had a good time! We started the weekend off with Blake's last soccer game for the spring season! Ryan and I were really looking forward to this, the season was a bust to begin with because of all of the cancelled games due to the weather, so we were happy it was finally over! The parents really like the way Ryan coached the team as did the children! One of the little girls on the team "Amanda" went up to Ryan and said "your the best Coach" and she gave him a hug, a lot of the parents asked if he was going to coach summer season, but Ryan had to regretfully tell them no as Blake will be participating in T-Ball for the summer season. After the soccer game Ryan and I had 4 BBQ's to go to..so needless to say we were pretty busy and filling up on delicious food everywhere! We first went to my co worker Gregg's BBQ, we had a lot of fun there and really enjoyed ourselves but had to cut out after spending 2 hours there so we could head to my co worker Chris's house... we got there pretty late but stayed long enough to have a braut and some home made beer! After Chris's house we headed over to Mandy's house and hung out with all of our friends, we watched the Nuggets play and munched on yummy food...and then we ended the evening at Ryan's buddy/partners house to watch the UFC fights (actually for Ryan to watch the fights and for me to eat the delicious fruit cookie Jamie made) Thanks Jamie...it was awesome!


2009 YMCA Spring Soccer Team


Blake kicking the ball


Kelli & Blake

Sunday we met up with my Cousin Lindsay and her family who happen to be in town for a Graduation party! I hadn't seen my cousin in at least 2 to 3 years so it was really nice catching up with her and watching the kids play together! I wish the weather had been nicer so we could have done something fun while they were in town, but it rained so it squashed any plans we had for the outdoors... so instead we met up with them for lunch then had them over to our house so the kids could play and we could visit...we happened to get in a ball pit fight, that was crazy but it was pretty fun! I was sad to see them go, but they had more family to visit on their short trip to Colorado!


The Sloneneckers


Sophia, Lindsay, Candee, Jenny and Me


Me & Lindsay with our 1 year olds


"Cousins" Lindsay and Me


Breanna and Blake (2nd Cousins) they made an instant friendship


Sophia and Brooklyn driving around! (2nd cousins)


Sophia and Brooklyn hugging (2nd Cousins)

On Monday Memorial Day we had made plans to hang out at Cherry Creek and do the whole boating thing since we had to cancel our camping trip, but wouldn't you know it...it was cold and rainy... Kelli still put her boat in the water and DJ, Richard and Kenny all got a chance to wakeboard before the storm completely moved in forcing them off the water! Ryan, Jenny, Dalacie, the Kids and I...had fun on the beach building a sand castle...so I guess it wasn't a complete bust! After getting rained out at the lake we went to lunch at Subway then came home for a nice afternoon nap listening to the rain fall, and got caught up on some house work!


Jen & I helping the kids build a Sand Castle


Ryan packing sand for our castle


Blake & Dalacie working together to build a creek around the castle


Blake Filling the Creek


Brooklyn's 1st Sand Castle


Blake & his Sand Castle


Dalacie

Brooklyn's 1st Birthday!

Thursday May 21st was Brooklyn's 1st Birthday! To help her celebrate the big "1" Ryan, Blake and I took Brooklyn to the Downtown Aquarium! Brooklyn had never been before, and I think she really enjoyed the place! After spending a good hour and a half there we then went to Senor Rics for lunch followed by a walk around Toys R Us, and then we came home for a well needed Nap! Who knew turning one could be so exhausting! After our nap we took Brooklyn out to dinner...because she is too little to decide where she wanted to go, we asked Blake where we should go and to no surprise he said "Rosies Diner" that's where we take Bake every year for his Birthday Dinner! We had a great family day, and very much enjoyed celebrating Brooklyn's 1st birthday with her!


Brooklyn Checking out the fishys


Brooklyn through the eyes of a fish!


My favorite the Tortoise


Family picture at the Downtown Aquarium


Brooklyn at the Downtown Aquarium


Ohh...scary Shark!


Blake & Brooklyn @ the Downtown Aquarium


Lunch at Senor Ric's


Sleepy head...turning one is exhausting!


Kelli, Jenny & Brooklyn at Rosies Diner


Brooklyn at Rosies Diner


Daddy giving his baby girl a birthday kiss!


Brooklyn's Birthday Sundae

Friday May 22nd we took Brooklyn in for her 1 year well baby check up! She weighed
19lbs 7 oz and was 29 1/2 inches long, this puts her in the 25% for her weight and 50% for her height. The Dr said she looked happy and healthy. He gave her the last of her 1st year shots which included 3 shots, Brooklyn was not happy... I actually felt really bad for her, she was just drinking away at her bottle and then "Bam" they stuck her with 2 needles at once, she was so upset she threw her bottle and spit her milk out at the nurses, that part was actually kind of funny! She won't go back until November when she get's her Flu shot!

We also took Brooklyn in for her very first Dental appt.on 05/18/09. The Dentist looked at all 5 of her teeth. She actually did better than I had expected! They gave Brooklyn a floride treatment flossed her teeth, and told us what things we can do to ensure she keeps her teeth clean & healthy!





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Brooklyn's 1st Birthday Party

On Saturday May 16th we celebrated Brooklyn's 1st Birthday by throwing her a Birthday Party! Although her actual birthday is May 21st we decided to have her party the weekend before her birthday due to Memorial Day weekend falling the weekend of her actual birthday! I did a Cupcake themed party, and had lots of fun planning her party around that theme! She was so cute, and really seemed to enjoy all the attention she was getting as well as all of the nice presents that she received from all of our friends and family! We had fun activities for both adults and kids. I had a polaroid guest book, where the guests took pictures of themselves with a polaroid camera and then wrote a special note to Brooklyn (thanks to Fielding for the camera and Suyzel for making the guest book) I thought it would be a great keepsake for Brooklyn to have on her 18th birthday! We had the adults play a guessing game, I put pictures on the wall of some of the major milestones in Brooklyn's life ranging from the day we brought her home from the hospital to when she started crawling and walking, the guests had to guess the correct age of Brooklyn for each milestone and the person with the most correct guesses won! Jamie Moreland ended up winning the game, she had 5 correct guesses....she really had her mommy radar on!!! For the kiddos we played Pin the Candle on the cupcake! The children were blind folded and the child who got the candle pinned closest to the"1" on the cupcake won a prize, our nephew Robert ended up wining that game! And lastly we had a cupcake pull string pinata for the kids which was filled with tattoos, gum, candee and biter biscuits for the younger ones like TJ & Brooklyn! We served a delicious Giant cupcake filled with rasberry bavarian cream and ice cream! Brooklyn got her own "smash" cake and it was a good thing, because she demolished that thing! I couldn't get it to her fast enough, she kept trying to pull if off the table once I sat her in her chair! She had a great 1st birthday celebration, and we look forward to celebrating many more with our little cupcake!