I am in Denver right now, and I just dropped Kat off to hang out with her boyfriend who lives in the area. We have a People to People meeting this afternoon to learn more about what she’ll be doing in Australia. If you missed it, Kat (The Teenager) got excepted in to the People to People Student Ambassador program. Her delegation is going to Australia this summer. It’s a great opportunity for her to travel abroad and earn college credit while doing so! We need help raising the funds, however. That’s where you come in. If you enjoy reading my stories here and would like to help us out, please find the Chip In badge to the right and donate what you can. I completely understand how the world is right now, so if you can’t give we’ll still be friends.

We received a call yesterday from Kat’s aunt. She held a garage sale and raised $850! You’ll see that reflected in the Chip In badge as soon as we receive it. I just got too excited about that to not tell you now!

Thanks to everyone that has contributed so far, every little bit helps.

I’ll be posting later about what we learn today, for now I’m going to take advantage of Whole Foods’ Wi-Fi and the lack of children to do that research I was talking about above…

So just as the week was a blur for us, please enjoy this whirlwind photo tour of the weeks highlights!

What is Calli sitting on? A stone wall?

Nope! This is a sculpture of a serpent named ‘Squiggles’. Squiggles lives at the Arvada Center of Arts and Humanities in Arvada, Co. Here, Kat helped Calli make it to Squiggles’ head. I’m not sure how big Squiggles is, but he’s HUGE! The Arvada Center is where we went to the People to People presentation. We probably could have spent the entire day here…

Tristin looked thoughtfully over his sisters playing on the giant serpent. That’s Daddy’s little Jedi!

Kat and Calli pose at the tail of the beast.

We went to the Downtown Aquarium in Denver for lunch. Unfortunately, they were having a big Valentine dinner event and couldn’t seat us. But Tristin looked amazed by everything anyway!

We then wound up at the Colorado Mills Mall, where Calli and I got to ride a turbo-charged carousel. This is a huge outlet mall, and Calli and Tristin came out of Gymboree with entirely new wardrobes!

Tuesday, we got to feed Tristin for the first time. Due to a back order issue with the pad we ordered from Fisher Price, we didn’t yet have a high chair to put him in, but that wasn’t going to stop us from getting some carrots in to this kid! I apologize that I’ve worked my way in to these pictures. Just pay attention to the cute kid with the quizzical look on his face, not me. (Like that’s hard to do! )

Gimme that spoon, Daddy! I'll do it!

Calli: Hey, Daddy! Can I help? Tristin: I told you I got it!

That's the face of a baby with a full tummy!

I certainly hope you enjoyed this week in review! I know I’m having fun!

Happy Fatherhood Friday!

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