Colorado Christmas

This Christmas we went to see Shannon and her family in Englewood, Colorado. Scott and Jess were also thinking of spending their Christmas in Colorado so they could visit Jess's old stompin ground. She attended Johnson & Wales University in Denver. So we all decided to merge our Christmas together.  Here is what it looked like.

Our first morning started off good. Mima let me sit by her and color.

Two peas in a pod. 

Buddy has more than one train and track sets. You will see later on.

Whenever Buddy comes to visit, he loves to use our little vacuum. We happened to have a couple extra new ones that I thought I would use in our new house. They remained in their boxes so we decided it was time to let Buddy have one of his own. 

Mima loves Mini Mouse. She got this Minnie Mouse Dress, light up high heels, an Anna doll from Frozen and we gave her this little pink stroller. 

Buddy got this Hot Wheels track so he and Grandpa worked on setting it up together. 

Now that I'm looking at this, Buddy has one train track set and it's pretty huge.

It was so nice to have Scott and Jess with us. We all took turns cooking a meal. Scott and Jess also helped Fred and I set up our new fitbits and help me with my last frustrations with my phone and I Pad. I printed off this 25 Crock Pot Dinners for each of my girls. Sundays are always best when we come home to a home filled with the yummy aroma of food awaiting in the crock pot.

We found this Sheldon (on a shelf) at Barnes and Noble months ago and had to buy it for Scott.

I think this is one of our technology sessions.

Scott has been ogling the new Tesla cars for a couple of years now. He arranged for Brian, Fred to come along on a test drive for Saturday. This is Brian sharing the happy news.

In the afternoon we drove out to Shannon & Brian's house site. The house behind Brian is the same as the one they are building. We walked over and went inside to get a feel for their layout. 

Pretty Exciting!

Saturday night we went through a session in the Denver Temple. Jess brought family names for each of us. It's a pretty little temple. We went out for Mexican Food afterwards. 

On Sunday we went to church. Here we are in Relief Society together. 

After church, it was picture time. These all turned out so cute, that I'm posting them all.

We went upstairs to watch Inside Out. It was warmer upstairs. 

Monday we went to Wings over the Rockies Museum. We chose this activity because it was indoors and we could be warm. Not so. Their heating broke down the night before so it was really cold inside. We didn't spend a long time here even though there was so much to see and read about. 

Buddy the Pilot.

After naps, we took the light rail up to the Broncos Stadium. The kids really love riding the train.

The stadium is at the end of the line. We had to wait outside to catch the return train. It was cold. My skimpy little scarf actually helped keep me warm.

Jess and Scott were very content and happy travel companions. She very much appreciated being away from the heat and humidity of Texas.

I got to sit the kids in my lap and take a little video of them. 

Yep - it was a great time.