Our Trip to Colorado

Just after getting our bags unpacked from Christmas, and getting back to our time zone, we packed our bags and headed to Colorado for a week to see my family.  Again, Chase traveled so well and it was fun to be with her on the airplane.  As an aside, she pretty much potty trained in the 6 days we were back home, so traveling was a little different with this new concept in tact.  2 people in a corner potty on Southwest was quite challenging.  And we were in it 3 times!  We're so proud of her though, how quickly she mastered this technique!!

We arrived to about zero degrees!  Slightly colder than we are used to.  And we did not even step a foot outdoors for about the first 36 hours we were there.  

We got to visit with my Aunt Kay and Uncle Steve the first whole day we were there, and it was Kay's birthday, so we celebrated with her.  I got to see my 2 CO. cousins that night for just a few minutes, Kaycee and Andy.  My brother Zach and his girlfriend Sam also came and hung out with us for the afternoon.  It was nice to meet her and always good to see a brother.  We all had fun playing Farkel.

The next day was really fun...my roomate from my junior year at UGA now lives in South Denver with her young family.  She has a 1, 2, and 3 year old!  And her husband works full time and is planting a church on top of that! Wow, busy folks!  She graciously drove an hour up to spend the morning with us.  Chase had fun playing with her girls.  Her middle daughter was born about 2 weeks after Chase.  We were pretty sure that we had not seen each other since 1998.  She was such a delight to catch up with and see how she has matured.  I also got a massage this day.  Such a nice break!

John flew in Friday morning, I met him in Boulder and picked him up from the bus station.  We poked around in some shops and walked around Pearl Street.  That is always fun.  Then we had lunch at my favorite, The Cheesecake Factory.  So delish.  That night, my parents treated us to a dinner theatre, our first.  We saw the Will Rogers Follies.  It was a great atmosphere and yummy food.  A friend of my mother's kept Chase and she had a GREAT time.

Saturday was my 34th birthday.  I got to have a pedicure and some alone time.  While I was gone, Chase and Mimi made me a red velvet cake.  It was DIVINE!!!  My favorite I'm sure.  Then in the afternoon John and I got to have the afternoon/evening off.  We went and walked around a big mall, then had some dinner and saw the King's Speech.  For not seeing movies very often, it was a great pick!

Sunday we went to the new church that my parents have been visiting and had chinese for lunch.  Chase took a really long nap so we were able to relax for the afternoon and watch tv and read.  Then that night we celebrated Christmas with my parents.

And Monday morning, early, we were off again.  And we had forgotten when we bought those tickets that it was MLK  Day, so John had off, which turned out great because we had the afternoon to relax and unpack before the week got started.

Thank you mom and dad for the nice visit and for all of the nice "time off".  Glad you got some good time with sweet Chasey.

So now we are back home again....for a little while anyway!