Melissa, Kyren, & Sydney at Casa Bonita.
Syd & Ky playing skee-ball.
Sydney playing school with her Kitty in the car during our long drive back to Denver.
Some flowers from grandma's garden.
Dave in the field. The corn was exceptionally tall this year, so grandma Rita wanted pictures of people standing next to it.
Grandma taking photos of Grandpa & Dave in the corn.
Grandma Rita, Grandpa Bob, and me.
Grandma & Grandpa in the corn.
Dave, me, and Grandpa.
Dave & me @ the McBroom Family Bar-B-Q.
Me and my serious faced family.
Me & Aunt Kelly, she says she's reliving her youth with braces & bangs.
Me & Grandpa Ron.
Hill Billy Golfers.
Jaime, Grandpa, Brett, Kelly, and Mom.
Me and Miss Odie. She was sneaking into my lap, because of the bad thunderstorm outside. She doesn't like storms.
Miss Teagan, Kasi, and me.
Dad picking sweet corn for dinner just before the big storm.
The Good Egg in Stuart's city park.
Grandma & Dad playing with Lori's new Great Dane pup, Sophia.
A week ago today I flew to Omaha and my parent's picked me up. I stayed with them Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. I had a very limited time back home and I tried to make the most out of it since I won't be able to go back again until sometime next year. I visited my grandparents, a few friends, my cousins, and my brother. There was a trip to Des Moines for pampering and crazy pizza, a family cook out, lots & lots of sweet corn, a hunt for the perfect tenderloin sandwich, and a few minutes to spare where I tried to relax. On Tuesday morning I was up bright and early for breakfast with Dad, Dave, and Uncle Paul. After breakfast Dave and I headed to the grandparent's to say good bye and take some last minute photos in this years tall tall corn crop. I had Dave drop me off @ the Wilder's house for the start of my long trek home. Melissa and I took turns driving (to be honest she did most of the driving) and we stopped 2 times for meals, a few times for gas & bathroom breaks, but we still made great time. You've got to love that 75mph speed limit in Nebraska. We arrived home late Tuesday evening and tried to get the kids wound down and ready for bed. They didn't sleep 1 wink during the 10+hr trip. Wednesday morning we went out for breakfast and then headed to Water World. Melissa has some good shots from our crazy adventures there. We opted out of taking the nice cameras and instead used some disposable water safe cameras. After the water park we stopped for ice cream and headed back to my place for some r&r. Later that evening we all cleaned up and headed to Casa Bonita for dinner. As Syd would say "Jesse was a party pooper & chose not to join us," to be fair though he did have band practice. Thursday morning Ken arrived around 3am followed by Adam, Natalie, and Jasper just before 7am. Everyone was pretty exhausted except Mr. Jasper who was wired from the trip and curious about his new surroundings. We soon Discovered Jasper was not about to let anyone go back to sleep, so we all decided to have breakfast and get ready for the day. The Children's Museum was our 1st stop of the day. We met Melissa's friend Amy and her son Henry, who I often babysit for. Henry saw me and came a running. He's a really cutie. We played hard and wore the kids out after only a few short hours. Meltdowns were well on there way as we decided we were all ready for lunch and naps. We had lunch at Pasquini's a delicious Italian chain here in Denver. After lunch we all went our separate ways for nap time. Adam, Natalie, and Jasper got a hotel practically in the Invesco Field parking lot (go figure). After some real good napping on everyone, but Kyren's part we cleaned up and headed out for dinner. This time with Jesse in tow and we met up with Ryan Beaman (a fellow Stuart-an). It was a great dinner with even better conversation and the desert was so amazing (peanut butter chip cheese cake, Yum!). After dinner the Wilson's came to our house to pick up some things they forgot and check on directions. Jesse & Kyren decided to test Adam on his guitar hero skills while Sydney and Jasper were dancing fools to the music. We all decided to hit the hay early, so they could get up and pack up their stuff to leave when Jesse and I got up for work. We made great time this morning and as far as I could tell this morning nobody forgot anything. Hope their trip to Leadville went smoothly. I didn't take many pictures of our adventures, because Melissa & Adam both take lots of pictures and I am sure they will have blog posts about their trip up soon. Thanks for coming to visit everyone and thanks for buying a couple of my meals... that was really not necessary. I love having visitors and I only wished we had more time and a bigger house to accommodate everyone. You'll all have to come back and visit again sometime.
1 comment:
Thanks so much for showing us the sites and sounds of Denver during our short stay. The Children's Museum was awesome! But we really enjoyed getting to spend more time with you and Jesse. And despite the very inquisitive stare-down that Jasper had with Jesse in the car on the way to the restaurant, he couldn't stop talking about him the whole way up, up, up high in the mountains to Leadville :)
Thanks, again, for everything you guys!
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