Pre-Christmas fun in Colorado

This year because of David starting a new position in the ER at the hospital, he had to work on Christmas and Christmas Eve. So we decided to make a quick trip to Colorado to see our families the week before Christmas. It seems like whenever we go, we only have time for "quick trip" and I'm hoping one of these days we will be able to stay a bit longer, especially since we have two families to spend time with. It was definitely worth it and we love our time spent in Colorado so much.

Diana and Brandon offered to let us stay with them and it was so fun! I was so happy because the kids got to play with their cousins as much as possible and Diana and Brandon were such good hosts! It was fun to spend time with them.

We also were able to spend time with both of our parents and siblings who live at home and see Dan, Charbel, and Benji who we had been missing since they moved to Arizona this past summer and got a surprise visit from Cindy who is working on her Master's in England.

David's parents took the three oldest and David to the museum one day to see a cool interactive dinosaur exhibit, but I didn't want to take three-week old Makynzie out, so we stayed back. They have one picture online of them there, but I will have to figure out if we can post it here. They had a lot of fun doing that!

Dan and Charbel were so good to pick up on when the kids needed something fun to do and were so fun to play with them, games like hot potato and wheelbarrow races. We sure miss having them around.


Grandma got out play dough for the kids one night and that was a big hit. Uncle Dan bonded with Kaci by each of them saying , "Mine" about something over and over again. :)