Trip to Colorado

The one good thing about the Chrastils moving to Colorado was that they gifted us for our birthdays plane tickets to visit them! Having the trip planned soon after they moved made it not so hard when they left so we are so grateful to them for letting us come visit.

I was super nervous about taking Milo on the plane, even though the flight was only a little over an hour. Ty and I had geared up all day for it, making Milo skip a nap and planning to feed him dinner at the airport right before takeoff so he wouldn't be hungry. Little did we know that feeding him dinner would be an adventure in and of itself! Milo was sitting on my lap and Ty started to feed him his food from a pouch. Milo liked the food, but decided it would be funny to spit it everywhere. It got all over Ty, some got on me, and we're thinking that some got on the guy sitting next to Ty...  (woops). Luckily, the lady sitting next to me thought it was the most hilarious thing, which got us to laugh about it and forget that we had spit and food all over ourselves.

Anyways, for Milo's first flight ever he surprised us! He loved checking everything out on the plane and was just so excited the whole time. I hoped he would fall asleep, but he stayed awake and chatted and squealed the whole ride, which I was ok with, as long as he wasn't crying. The hard part was when we got to Colorado and had to travel a ways to get to our rental car and then had to wait in line for the car for almost an hour. At this point it was 2 hours past Milo's bedtime and he had had it- so had mama! So we were very glad to get to the Chrastil's home that night.

The next day we dropped Owen off at school and took Elle and Milo downtown to check out a farmers market. We bought all the food that we needed for dinner that night at the market. Elle particularly liked picking out the veggies and found us a purple bell pepper. I have missed having that little girl as my shopping partner.

The day after that, Owen didn't have school so we piled everyone in the car and headed to the Science Museum downtown. As Owen described it, "It was a loong day," but the museum was pretty darn awesome. There was a whole space section...

Gems and stones section...

and animal section. Plus loads more.

The person that made the day seem so long was this little one :)

He was tired, cranky, and really enjoyed spitting his food all over his face. Then Elle got a really upset tummy and her feet were hurting her. So I took Milo and Elle to the car and drove around til they both fell asleep and then waited for Ty and Owen to finish the tour of the museum. The day was so crazy and exhausting that we whispered the whole way home even though everyone was awake :) remind me how people have more than one child?

Day number 4 was super sunshiney in the morning so we went to the pool and got to hang out for a little bit with Owen and Elle's new nanny too.

After the pool we wanted to check out a big park that was downtown, so we piled everyone in and headed there. As we were driving, we noticed that a storm was coming in and hoped that it would blow over us. But, as we pulled into the park parking lot, instant downpour came! We thought to wait in the car, hoping that it would pass over quickly, and took some selfies :) When the storm didn't pass quickly, we took a little gander out in the rain for a bit.

That night, Julie came to stay too and everyone was so glad that she was there!

We had a busy day planned the next day. We headed to breakfast at the most delicious place (can't remember the name) and I got the yummiest pancakes I have ever had! Pineapple Upside Down Pancakes= amazing.

Then we headed to the Denver Zoo.

The zoo was pretty amazing. We got to watch the Elephant show..

and the Seal Show where Milo was a dancing fool :)

We all came home super tired and ready for some snuggle time and Princess Bride. It was the perfect end to a wonderful trip! We were so sad to leave the Chrastils, but it helps knowing where they are and that it is a good place for them.