The Colorado Nachrichten

Monday, July 23, 2012

Fishing

Abbey had her first fishing trip while we were visiting family. I stayed home to hang out with Amelia (monitoring an adventurous 10 month old crawling around on a fishing dock didn't sound like an enjoyable time to me), so Stu took pictures to chronicle the event...

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Parade

The town close to Grandma and Grandpa had a parade one of the mornings we were visiting.

Amelia and her younger cousin (by about 3-1/2 mos):

Amelia fully exploited being the older cousin by taking L's toys, pacifier, etc. on numerous occasions. I think she was quite happy that it wasn't her toys being taken for once!

The candy accumulation commences:

"We're just gonna get some more candy quick!"

"Ok, bye!"

Do you think she's enjoying it?

A little bit less enthusiasm on this end...

Sophie the Giraffe in her mouth is Exhibit "A" on the ill-gotten toy acquisition... Note the first picture of A and L in this blog. Sophie is clearly not on her stroller.

I should note that the littlest A had a cold and fever the first couple days of our trip (could be something to do with the 9 different places she has slept over the past 2 months). I like to title this picture, "Seriously, Mom?"

(Her older sister managed to get the flu on our return trip).

Trip to see Grandma and Grandpa

I counted it up. Including our home, the girls have slept in 9 different beds in the past 2 months. Ten if you count an airplane on the overnight flight to Germany. We were preparing for our trip to drive to see Stu's family. We mapped it out and Google Maps told us it would take 15 hours to get to their home. We decided it was doable in two days and planned it would more than likely take us an extra hour each day. We packed the car the night before and had everything ready to go so we could get a somewhat early start to our drive. Stu had not been feeling well for a few days prior to our departure, and the morning we woke up he felt pretty rotten. It was 7:00 and we were beginning to think that the long drive with him unwell wouldn't be manageable. On a whim I decided to check United to see if there were any flights we could take using frequent flier miles. Turns out, there were... 10 minutes later we were on our way to the airport for a 9:45 flight. Of the many downsides to having a husband that travels very frequently for his work, this was a definite upside. Of course we had packed for our week trip with a drive in mind, not a flight, so I spent our 45 minute drive to the airport shuffling items around in our bags. And instead of getting to Grandma and Grandpa's house after a day and a half of traveling, we were there in 3/4's of a day!