Colorado - Part 1

Happy Belated Independence Day. My plan was to blog all week last week and catch you up on all of our greatest adventures. It's safe to say, that I am a bit behind. HOWEVER, here is a look at what we did on our first part of our trip to Colorado.

The first part of our 10 days in the Mile High area were shared with David, Shannon and Kiefer (who flew on the same flight with us out of Columbus) and also brought in my brother Patrick (who lives in Tucson). Not sure if you knew this, but my Dad and Suzann live in the Lafayette area and my sister Kimm and her lovely family (Paul, Oscar and August) live in Boulder.

The above is a mealtime shared by cousins. Kiefer (1.5) is in front left in the booster, the Olivia (6), the Oscar (3.5) across from her and then Alessandra. You would have thought they were together all of the time.

We spent some time over and Auntie Kimm and Uncle Paul's house. They have a great trampoline that wore out the girls many times over. Here are my jumping beans.

I forgot to turn this photo to the side (I will try and correct it later) but it was super cute of Olivia and Oscar

Alessandra's MO throughout this trip to Colorado was to get into the bath with whomever was bathing at the time (she does love the water). Here she is on a visit over to Kimm and Paul's during Oscar's bath time. Apparently it is just way more fun to bathe with others. (maybe it is just that they have cooler toys than we do).

What would a trip to Denver be without a trip to the Denver Zoo? We hit the zoo with the whole family. It was a lot of fun and if you are ever in the area - check it out!

Olivia, Alessandra and Oscar (with Kimm) checking out the chimps.

We took the train around the zoo area (a short ride, but for our transportation buffs in the family, a trip to the zoo would not be complete without it). Oscar and Olivia are in the back seat, Susu (Suzann) and Kimm next, Alessandra (with space for me) and David and Kiefer in the forefront. Good times.

Oscar and Olivia

Alessandra on the train (with her monkey kids meal lunch box)

The girls and I outside of the zoo with their purple/pink monkey's Uncle Dave got for them.

The best part about being with family is just being together. Here is Uncle Dave helping Alessandra with a glider.

Here is a photo of Susu with August (the youngest of the crew at 1) and Olivia (who adores her job in this family of being eldest cousin)

Here is Grandpa with Alessandra making funny faces.

A little shot of driving on the road towards Boulder... lovely.

Uncle Paul reading to the gang one afternoon/evening.

OH YES, and what would a trip be without a trip the the Urgent Care (Olivia has visited one everywhere we have been to). Her visit this time was for a bout with Strep Throat. Here we are goofing around in the exam room waiting for the test results.

Test results: Positive = 2 shots of antibiotics in the heiney. Which equals 1 Popsicle and 1 ice cream.

Here are some shot with Uncle Pat!

Uncle Pat, Susu and Grandpa (or Suzann and Dick as their names might actually be)

A little family shot. Pat, Kelly, David and Shannon (in the back)

Alessandra, Olivia and Kiefer in the front.

Tune back soon for more of our adventures in Colorado. We saw Jennifer and Connor and had more fun!