Day 1 in Breckenridge

Boarding in Phx at 7a and waiting to take off for Denver.

Roman and I slept thru most of the flight- this was right before landing in Denver.

Playing in the park en route to Breckenridge

Tyson never misses a vacation!

Walking from the hotel to explore and have dinner at Kenosha Steak House.

The snow on the mountains, there are mounds of snow all around.

Hot cocoa after a long day in the mountain air.

Diamondbacks vs. Rockies

What an amazing time we had- we had dinner at the Fridays at the ballpark and Roman got to watch warm-ups, we were 18 rows from the third base line- go sitting on the home team side! And tata caught a promo ball and shared it with Roman. Roman had fun walking around the entire ball park and playing in the sandlot (a playground at the ballpark) mama even let him have ice cream-mmmm yummy!

Roman and nana go golfing

Roman had so much fun at the castle we decided to take nana- like we do for most things that Roman enjoys with mom and dad, we do a second trip with nana :) I'm a stinker!

Roman goes golfing

We recently took a trip to Golfland- before it got too hot, and because every Wednesday evening is family night. Roman thought the castle was sooooo cool. He even shot a hole in one as you can see in the video. Turns out he's quite a good golfer and practices all the time. I think daddy may have a new golf buddy in just a few short years.

Holy ridiculous cuteness

Roman and his loveys- Buddy (L), Tyson (R)

Showing off his cookie monster underoos

Striking a pose (totally asleep mind you) this kid is so cute he even poses in his sleep. Its a good thing cuteness doesn't have calories or we'd be as big as the house with this little guy running around

Roman and mommy's day trip

During peak season mommy tends to disappear for days at a time, so to make up for it she does daytrips with Roman. Our most recent involved taking the light rail to the Phoenix Childrens Museum- which if you've never been, you HAVE to check it out!

After our train trip we played for a while and then had lunch at a deli by the ballpark, got back on the train and headed to the car for the quick jaunt home. Below are some of the highlights of the day- and Roman's favorite parts of the museum.

Roman loves his Gigi

Recently we made the trip out to see Gigi, thankfully the portable dvd player makes the trip easier on everyone. While at Gigi's Roman got to chase rabbits out of her garden, read stories, ride in her "cart"- golf cart and go have lunch at the resturaunt. Then feed the koi fish the leftover bread from the cheeseburgers. What a day!
Gigi loves walking hand and hand with her littlest man.

"Look Gigi" Roman got so excited pointing out fish and ducks, the fountain and the golfers.

Gigi loves reading to Roman even if he can't sit thru the book. Mommy just reads faster (mostly because she's memorized every book by heart)

Easter Sunday at the Zoo

I ended up having to work on Easter Sunday, but fortunately I was less than 10 min from the zoo and was able to catch up with the boys for a morning of fun!
Getting wild on the merry-go-round

Yay another self-timer photo w/the camera balanced on a shoe

This kid loves to drive, even his airplane and mommy's keys

Roman insisted on petting every single goat there.

The new baby orangutang- he's 2 like Roman. The family dynamic was very interesting (scary enough it looked alot like ours in the morning)

Two handsomest boys at the zoo

Faux Fried Bananas

At daddy and tata's birthday dinner we learned Roman has a fondness for fried bananas. Well I was certainly not going to indulge him in this tasty treat- there's no nutritional value. I did however come up with a wonderful solution that allows him to have something very similar without the fat and even more nutrition. By smashing up graham crackers and pressing them onto the banana it has the same appearance and the cinnamon from the crackers makes it even more tasty.

He's quite merticulous!

Appreciating Things

Every now and then I can look beyond the early wake up calls, dirty diapers and groud up goldfish inmy car to see just how wonderful and amazing my son is. So for your enjoyment here is my son sitting among the wildflowers (weeds actually) along our street. He was fascintated by them, which in turn made me more fascinated in him. I love you Roman with all my heart!

Roman and the office supplies

Every now and then I make printing errors- well actually I blame Microsoft, but thats another topic.

I let Roman have the goof ups so he can do business like mommy, without wasting mommy's supplies. Here's the result of me leaving the room

and coming back to find him in the office with the labels. Thank goodness he wasn't naked!

Painting the bench with dada

Daddy and tata's b-day dinner

Roman singing Happy Birthday to tata and daddy at Fogo e Braso

Playing in Oma's lap

Roman made the rounds around the table with everyone at the birthday dinner.

Perfect Husband in Training

Best seen with the volume off

He's good looking, hard working and he knows how to please the ladies: cleaning house with his shirt off! Sorry girls he's not available for another 16 years :)

Roman and the supermodels

Roman got to spend some quality time with Miss Hillary during one of mommy's photo shoots- turns out Roman is particularly fond of blondes and had no problem spending time with Hillary while at the AZ Historical Society Museum. Turns out they had a kid friendly play area and driving a grown-up truck was super exciting!

Roman and Gigi at the zoo

We took a big long drive to the Wildlife world zoo and aquarium- the only aquairum in AZ and quite a good one. This is so much better than the Phoenix Zoo, you get much closer to the animals and you can feed a good number of them. Roman loved watching Dave feed the giraffes, chasing the ducks and pulling Gigi around to show her all the "aminals"