Tuesday, September 4, 2012

:: road trip :: colorado ::

I will just preface this post with, there are a lot of pictures!  I just couldn't narrow it down any more.  Our friends came to our house Wednesday night so we could get up early Thursday and start driving to CO!  The kids were pretty funny, Isabelle had her first sleep over with Greyson sleeping in her room for the night and they were so chatty, we had to go in there a couple of times and regulate ;).  We got up and left as soon as the kiddos woke up, so here we are in the 'girl' car...
Just showing off all our snacks {and Runge of course}, we were pretty stuffed in the 2 cars.. 3 car seats, 3 strollers, 3 pack n' plays, 3 sets of golf clubs + everyone's bags, but we did it!
We had our first stop a little earlier than expected because Iz had soaked her shorts :(, so here she is with no pants :)... couldn't find our bag, oh well.
Ha!  Yes, we walked down the street and went to lunch in Denver with Iz just in her diaper and tee!  Not going to lie, we got a lot of looks from the passer by!
what?
"come on Greyson!"
How cute is that, the dad's + the littles.
Thank goodness for those 'Horizon Organic' milk boxes!  They come in so handy while traveling!
walking to lunch, so nice to be walking!
Yay, they are asleep!  The girls passes out about the same time, right as we were going up into the mountains.
Our first morning... we made a delicious pumpkin coffee cake that we had all pinned from pinterest, it was delicious!  So good warm, right out of the oven... even heats up well!
Just checking out the mountains before we left for Vail Village...
Headed into the village.
I love this of these two..
Look at sweet Annabelle.
I took so many of these three, not one of them really turned out, so here are the best 2 ;) {I love how Iz has her arm around Annabelle, we told her to hold on to her}.
Don't look so excite you two.
The Nielsen family.
The Wasinger family.
Iz liked checking out this bear.
The beautiful view from our back patio.
Such big helpers/cleaners!
We went for a stroll after we made dinner {taco bar and rotel :)}, it was so nice out, kind of chilly, but so enjoyable.
Run!
"This way Greyson!"
Breakfast at a great little cafe.. yum!
We went to the farmer's market and the veggies were out of control, so pretty!
Our kiddos!
Runge's birthday lunch :)
with delicious peach bread pudding!!  Here's to thirty!!
Our view again...
We tried again to get the kids' picture before Runge's birthday dinner, man is it tough!
This one just made me laugh :).
family.
 
{for some reason I didn't get one of the Wasinger family, sorry friends!}
Moms + the babes.
Super dad!
Happy 30th friend!!  Love you!
Beaver Creek on our last day {Sunday}, it was Octoberfest so there were a lot of tents set up with all sorts of food + drinks, it was a lot of fun.
More family photos... got the Wasingers this time :).
{poor Izzy girl didn't feel very well and slept most of the time while we were there {hence the pout face}}
We got a crazy idea to drive home through the night, so this was us after we ate the lasagna we made and all the bags were packed... thought we'd get a little exercise in before we were going to sit in the car all night.
We bathed the kids, put them in their jams and loaded them in their seats, time for bed!  They all did pretty well, slept until we stopped for gas and then went back to sleep fairly quickly, Isabelle just seemed so uncomfortable, it was like trying to sleep on a plane.. I felt bad for her.  We got into Salina at 4 am, put Iz right to bed, then passed out ourselves.  Thankfully for us, Isabelle slept until about 9:30.. I just don't know that I would do that again!  We had such a wonderful time in CO with our friends, thank you so much for the refreshing + much needed vaca!