After spending a fun week in Houston, we picked up Jason in Dallas and made the 22-hour drive to Grand Junction, Colorado for part 2 of our summer adventure. Abby was instantly enamored with my parents' dogs, Muffin and Shadow. She would love to get a little dog to baby but one dog is plenty for our family right now!
The day after we arrived, Grandma let them have all the quarters she had stored throughout the year in her piggy bank. They counted out $68 worth of quraters which means they each got $34 to spend on anything they wanted (I tried to get them to buy me something, but no such luck!)
Holy moolah!! (No wonder they love coming to Grandma's house!)
Of course no trip to Colorado would be complete without making lots and lots of cookies with Aunt Tami...
And eating lots and lots of cookie dough in the process!!
Grandma with her youngest grandchild!!
And a picture of us in front of Golden Corral...some things never change!!
Since we didn't get to see Tami at the Outer Banks, it was fun to be able to spend time with her while we were in Grand Junction.
Landon loved doing puzzles...
And Nolan thought he was pretty hot stuff when he learned how to climb into the recliner chair all by himself!
Yes, that tongue is out ALL of the time. Maybe someday it will fit into his mouth.
Nolan also took his first steps while in Colorado (much to his daddy's disappointment. Jason was only able to spend a couple of days in Colorado before flying off to Phoenix and Las Vegas for work.)
I love this picture of him walking from me to my Dad!!
He was very proud of his new accomplishment! (He still doesn't walk too much though. At least for now he seems to prefer the crawling method for getting around!)
Abby and Landon both enjoyed doing lots of crafts with their Grandma Julie.
Love this little man...
Grandma and her girl!!
We also had some great adventures at the park each day. My parents live just a short walk from two great parks so we took advantage of this often while we were there.
We also got to check out the Dinosaur Museum in Fruita. Abby loved the spitting dinosaur, Landon loved the Raptor eating the head off of another dinosaur, and they both loved digging for fossils and riding the "earthquake" machine! We were also able to pay a brief visit to the Vietnam Memorial nearby and picked out Grandpa's name.
Jason came back to Colorado on our last day and we were all able to go swimming together. Abby and Landon both went off the diving boards for the first time (with life jackets) and LOVED it!! It was a great way to end our week in Grand Junction.
The next day we headed a bit further West for the third part of our summer adventure...
2 comments:
The Golden Corral picture is awesome! Your mom is the cutest! You guys are quite the travelers. It definitely looks like you squeezed a ton in to your summer! Love the pictures of Nolan walking and all his little tongue-out shots.
(You asked about my dress: it was Julie's that she gave to me, but I'm assuming it's from Target because Merona is the brand.)
What a great time at your parents. All those quarter? Yeah, no wonder they love going there, not only that but all the other fun stuff they get to do also. That much fun would definitely be hard to leave.
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