Road Trip 2009

We are successfully home from our trip to visit Nona and Stacey in Boulder, CO. We had a really good trip and enjoyed getting to see Jen, Kevin and Bobby while we were there! Harrison and I were superstars on the car ride -- a 10 hour trip and we only had to stop ONCE!!! Mom was delighted to say the least.

Mom got her "city fix" the first day and made the necessary stops at the mall and Target and then we got to enjoy the scenery and surrounding area. Nona's house is right near a park and we walked there every morning to play next to surrounding foothills with paragliders coming down the mountain as we played. What a perfect setting!
Mommy's best friend Tessa lives in Denver and she came up one rainy day and they took all of us kids bowling for the afternoon. I've been perfecting my skills on the Wii, so Mom was a bit nervous that I might be frustrated by "real" bowling, but I loved it -- and you'll see I'm quite strong as I actually launched the bowling ball down the lane a few times!
And Mom and Tessa were thrilled to see that Asher and I still love each other and Harrison and Nadia seem to be taking a liking to one another too now -- the betrothal may work out after all!
We spent one day taking a gorgeous drive through the mountains up to Estes Park. Once we got there we had a yummy BBQ lunch and then rode a tram up to the top of a mountain where we found some really cute chipmunks to feed. They were pretty bold animals and would just walk right up to you looking for food -- this didn't work out very well for the poor little soul who came sauntering up to Harrison. He was not interested in feeding them anymore and said "no, chickamunk, not over here" and proceeded to give the poor thing a gentle kick with his shoe...oops.
We headed down to Denver to pick up Aunt Jen, Uncle Kevin and Bobby from the airport and spent the day before they arrived with Tessa at her house enjoying popsicles and our great friends...
We were sad to only have a day and a half overlap with Jen, Kevin and Bobby, but we made the most of it and had so much fun visiting with them. We took them to the park that morning and ran off some energy...
and then took another gorgeous drive (despite the rain) up through the mountains to eat at yummy pizza place called Beau Jo's. Mom didn't manage to take any pictures up there -- managing three kids was definitely a handful, but it was a blast and we just wish we had more time to spend with them. We headed back on Monday and had another super easy drive and were so happy to get home to daddy.

Stay tuned for pictures later today or tomorrow.....today is a pretty exciting day. We are all going along to Mommy's doctor's appointment to see the baby!!!! I keep asking Mommy what she would do if there were two babies in there -- she keeps telling me to bite my tongue....not sure why!