Colorado Rocky Mountain High

We took a long drive to visit Shannon's family this weekend.

We took off Thursday night after I got home from work.

Stopped in Salina for the night to cut down on the next day's travel.

We took over Mima's bedroom. She slept in her parent's closet.

There was plenty of Blue Bell ice cream. So delicious.

I can't stop eating it.

Brian also baked homemade brownies and his fabulous bread.

He sent us home with a loaf.

 The first evening we ate at Smash Burgers and then to a park.

It was freezing cold and it even started to rain.

Came home and ate ice cream, brownies and watched some tv.

 

Shannon &Brian's new place has a great deck and backyard to play in. 



 Mealtime. 

We went to the Denver Zoo on Saturday morning. 

Brian had to work so he wasn't able to come along.

Grandpa went on the train with Buddy.

 It was at this point that my camera went dead.

I thought I had just charged it up.

Saturday night we went to Chick-Fil A

That is the most kid friendly fast food place I've ever been to.

Sticky placemats for the kids, little containers of Cheerios, hand sanitizer in bins at the order counter. The kids got to play on the toys under the supervision of Brian & Grandpa and Shannon & I got to visit. 

 

Sunday morning was 9 AM church which is easy to do when everyone wakes up early.

 

After several mini M&Ms to bribe her to stand still, Shannon finally got this picture.

There would have been black or pink tights for this little outfit, but Mima got into her bottom drawer and hid all the contents. Hopefully Shannon will find the clothes somewhere.

Today was Mima's first day for nursery.

Mima wasn't too excited at first in the nursery, but Shannon was able to leave by snack time.

Mima loves her Momma. She doesn't want anyone if Shannon is in sight.

Not even poor Daddy Brian.

 

 These are after church photos.

 After naps, we drove to the Denver temple. It's about a 20 minute drive from Shannon's.

The water fountain was a big hit. Mima wanted to get in and take a bath.

 She actually let me pick her up to sit her on the bench.

I quickly called out for someone to take a picture.

There was no way that Mima would let us hold her for picture taking.

So I had to take advantage of the moment.

 She sat pretty good so I called for Fred. By then she was totally aware of what was happening.

She started squirming to get off the bench.

 This was the first visit to the Temple for the babies.

 Here is Buddy's photo bomb. It was good he did that because we didn't take a picture of the three of us.

Here we are.

The Denver Temple is a pretty little temple.

The grounds are just coming out of winter freeze.

Lots of tulips and pansies.

 

We had to head home Monday morning. If we didn't need to eat or go potty, it's a 9 1/2 hour drive.

We did stop for lunch and several potty/walking around breaks.

Next trip we will fly.

 

We had a really nice time. I was surprised that the Denver area is actually a pretty flat valley and the mountains are way far away.

This is the quilt I made for Mima's room. Her theme obviously is butterflies.
This is a small quilt - maybe 20"x 20"
My good friend and neighbor Sharon quilted it on her long arm quilting machine.