Trip to DURANGO for the POLAR EXPRESS

Our ride on the Polar Express...

I FORGOT MY CAMERA FOR THE RIDE AND HAD TO STEAL THIS ONE OFF ANGIE'S BLOG, THANK YOU ANGIE!

 

After weeks of anticipation... trying REALLY hard to keep it a secret from the kids... we took a trip to Durango Colorado to go on the POLAR EXPRESS with the Morrill and Nalder families.  The kids were wild and crazy and loved every minute of it! 

We had a great time wearing out the kids swimming both nights.

This year all the kids got their Christmas PJ's early and looked darling wearing them for the train ride and hanging out after.

   

The ride home was long and pretty scary at times but we got home safe and sound.  And now need to get ready to leave on Thursday for another adventure.  How can you not love WINTER.

MY HAPPY BOY

A GOOD PLACE TO PLAY & A GOOD PLACE FOR A NAP

I left Evan in his room for a few minutes and when I came back he was under his crib.  He thought is was pretty fun... every time I talked to him he would laugh.  It was great entertainment for him.  These days he finds the most random things to play with.  You would think he would love his toys that blink or make noise, oh no, he love things like a box or being under his crib.  Silly boy!

At the time Evan was playing under his crib I found Avery in the front room like this.  For the past two days she has made herself a little bed in front of the fireplace to get warm and a short time later I find her asleep.  I am excited she is getting a nap, most days she refuses to take one.

THANKSGIVING 2008

After six years we finally had Thanksgiving with the Elmore side of the family!  Our trips to Utah always go fast, but this one was WAY to quick.... good thing we will be back for our niece Stefanie's wedding in a few weeks!!!  YEAH STEF!

One of my favorite things of being a parent is watching my kids go through all the little milestones.  Kayla lost her front tooth the night of Thanksgiving.  She will soon enter into the FLK (funny looking kid) stage,  when her tooth starts to grow in.  And if she has genes from me in that department it might be one BIG tooth, but nevertheless she will always be a sweetie and that is what matters, right? heee heee

Now that I know my time is limited in Colorado, I have found myself really taking in all the things I will miss here.  On the drive back from Utah there was a gorgeous sunset with the scenery of fresh snow, pine trees, and mountains.  I took a million pictures but they really never give the moment justice.

NO bEaRs.... Go CoUgArS

Saturday morning I went hiking with a group of ladies on a trail by my house.  Thank you Angie for organizing it.  It felt great to get up early and enjoy the fresh air, without worry about dressing, feeding, and taking care the kiddos.  The trail we hiked, I later found out, was the same trail Spencer almost ran into a bear mountain biking months ago.  I know many of you have heard the story, since then I have been a little nervous to run in that area.   But no worries we saw NO BEARS and most likely never will.  Maybe Spencer made it up.... ha ha just kidding Spence I know it happened.  

Later that day we took Evan to his first football game, BYU vs Air Force.  A friend in our ward had gotten us tickets, along with a ton of other people in our ward.  It was great to be surrounded by so many friends.  I  didn't really care who won since we have ties to both teams but we decided to cheer for BYU and happily they won.

******SEEING TWILIGHT STARS ******

Yesterday Laurie and I went to my favorite mall in Denver the PARK MEADOWS MALL to do a little shopping... well kinda a lot of shopping.  And it just happened to be a very special day there, three of the STARS from the movie TWILIGHT were signing autographs at  Hot Topic .  It was the actors that play LAURENT, JACOB, and VICTORIA (Okay, I admit I knew they would be there.)  But we found out once there that you had to buy a t-shirt, which they stated selling at 7am and only had limited amounts, in order to be in line to get their autographs.  (Bummer)  But after they were done signing they did answered questions on a stage in a main area of the mall.  Laurie and I were brought back to our teenage years being surrounded by hundreds of screaming girls wearing Twilights t-shirts.  

      

I love the Food Court, it feels like a HUGE lodge.  Can you believe they already have Christmas stuff up!  Though it did look beautiful and made me want to spend more money than I should.  

 

Here we are in front of Hot Topic.  You should have seen all the security,  it was crazy!

 

Who's this you ask?  Ha ha ha...  since we couldn't see EDWARD we had to settle for this. 

 

Here are the STARS... after about five minutes we went back to shopping.  But it made a great reason to go to Denver.  

****VICTORIA****LAURENT*****JACOB*******

I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN...

On Friday night I told Kayla and Avery to get their PJ's on so they could go over to the Morrills house where a babysitter was going to watch them.  When I was ready to leave our house I found Avery on the floor asleep, it was on 5:30, which she NEVER does.  Then that night the babysitter said Avery didn't play with the other kids, she just laid down most the time and then fell asleep.  At this point I REALLY SHOULD HAVE KNOWN.... Avery came into our room in the middle of the night REALLY SICK.  

By Sunday we needed to get out of the house so we went on a little drive and took a few pictures.  I love finding new places to explore, just to be outside is soooo nice after being cooped up inside for a couple days.

Yah, it was a Sunday that none of us were feeling great and didn't care much to get ready.

Just to let you know I fell into the stream trying to have Spencer take this picture.  It was pretty funny.  But I didn't want to share any of the great pictures of my leg soaking wet.