CoLoRaDo GeTaWaY...

This post is about a week late. But better late than never. Last Friday we took a very spontaneous trip to Colorado. We have been wanting to go since January. Since school starts tomorrow I decided it was now or never. So it took a little convincing with Matt. He does not care for spontaneity. I on the other hand thrive on it. Anyway. We pulled it off. Matt was able to get Monday and Tuesday off. We left about 9pm Friday. Matt didn't even get home until 8pm. Poor guy. Put in a whole day of driving then I make him get in the car and do another 9 hours! I did stay up with him though! I also helped drive. I know he hates it when I drive. He says he can't sleep or relax. Whatever! I have never had a ticket EVER! He has had several and seems to get pulled over on a regular basis. Okay moving on...we drove to Winter Park first. My Dad has a cabin up there and wanted us to come spend some time with him. We arrived about 6am. Ouch! Matt and I handed the kids off to my Dad and we went strait to bed. We only slept until 9am. We didn't want to waste the day sleeping. The boys had so much fun working with Grandpa on the tractor. They knocked down trees and dug up stumps. Matt even took a turn on the tractor! There was a festival going on in Winter Park so we went and checked it out, had lunch and stayed for a lumberjack show. After all that we loaded up the car once again and headed for Denver. Matt's parents had no idea we were coming. We wanted to surprise them. We parked our car on the next street and walked the boys over to the door. Matt and I hid while the boys rang the doorbell and stood there waiting. Our nephew Jake answered and yelled out "Cody and Landen are here!" This surprised the others at home. They thought Jake was kidding or something. So they were totally surprised to see us all standing there. It was so fun. We stayed until it got late just talking and letting the kiddos play. This was all Saturday. So Sunday morning comes around and I am so exhausted and feeling sick I can't do anything. We had planned to attend church with Matt's family but we never made it. That afternoon, after we laid around all morning! We headed to Brighten to visit my cousin Carissa and her husband. They built the cutest house out there with the biggest backyard. Holy cow! I was jealous. We stayed for a couple hours just talking and kids loved playing out back. We then headed home for dinner with Matt's family. We stayed late again. The boys had a blast with their Colorado cousins! Monday we ran some dumb errands. Wasted time driving around to accomplish nothing! Finally we made it to Taysoms. We had lunch with Elly and Jamie at Goodtimes. We do not have this fast food joint in Utah and this was our fav place to eat when we lived out there. So for 2 1/2 years I have been craving this! It was so good! Goodtimes! Goodtimes!!! Then Elly, Jamie and I went shopping for a few hours. It was so fun just hanging out with the girls. Jamie is preggo too and a month ahead of me. So we did some baby shopping and robe shopping for the Hospital. Cute robes are so hard to find. I guess it is the wrong time of year or something? That night Matt went out with his friends that he has not seen for awhile and Cody spent the night at Tayoms. So it was just Landen and I at my Dad's. We had a family dinner and Roberta came over with Trevan. It was a really fun evening. The next morning we went back to Taysoms. Let the boys play as long as we could. Moinca my SIL gave Matt a much needed massage. Then we hit the road. We made it back safely with no trouble. I am so glad we got to go on this trip. It was quick but perfect. I hope our next trip over will not be in 2 or so years! Also my pics are way out of order. And for two days of the trip my camera was dead. So Dad, Elly and Carissa you guys need to send me copies of all the pics you got!