Time to catch up again! I will make these short so you don't get to bored :) Saturday we decided to go to the mountains (the plan was to meet up with Nathan, Alison and her family, but ended up not doing that), we went up to the YMCA of the Rockies on the Winter park side. If you ever visit Denver again this is a must visit place. It was a 2 hour drive (not bad considering we did it during Felicity's nap), we wanted to make it to the mountains this month to try and see all the changing trees. We were able to see a few trees changing but due to the snow a few days back most of them had already fallen. The best part of the trip truly was the camping grounds at the YMCA. They have so much to do there and most of it is free, and it changing with the season. While we were there we went on a very nice pretty easy hike with the girls (both in backpacks). Hannah tried to do a bit of the hike but her little legs just did not keep up ours. On our way back down she got to see some horses up close, you should have seen the smile on that girls face when the horses looked at her and sneezed, so cute! The facilities have a year round arts and crafts building where we go to help Hannah paint an apron to use when she helps us in the kitchen (she had a ball).
By the end of the day both girls zonked out for the two hour drive home. There were so many other things that we could have done, from skating to swimming to mini golf. They have two places to eat lunch and many parks to play and run in, as well as game buildings and plenty of space to host parties and weddings. In the winter time they have snow showing, outdoor ice skating and a place where you can ice sled just for starters. Needless to say we will be going back very soon (like next month), only this time we will stay the night so we can utilize the facilities to its fullest. We talked about trying to get our whole family (Auth) up here for a summer family reunion, it is fairly inexpensive and so accessible and great for everyone who has kids (which we all do). Maybe we should drop the idea at Christmas this year? It was really a wonderful day and the 4 hours in the car with sleeping/quiet kids really gave Andrew a chance to catch up and connect, I love family filled weekends like this.
On a side note, it is much easier if I drive, I got pretty sick on the drive up, good thing I am not married to a man who must drive when we are both in the car :) And to top off the day on our drive back home we stopped at one of our favorite restaurants that we had not been to in a while (Parisi's) and had some amazing Italian food and wine. It was a family date, but a great one at that.
Thank you little ones for your joy in simple things, and Andrew for all your love and giving us this beautiful family,
Love Mom
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