Colorado Adventure

I am beginning to understand more and more why my parents never took us on long drives. Why would you want to do that to yourself? I keep asking myself why I take my children on ten hour drives. But I guess seeing family is worth it. We had the opportunity to spend a week in Colorado with Brandon's family last week. I was excited because I had never been to Colorado, and to see family as I mentioned, and William was excited to go to Water World. He did tell me while we were driving that he likes Uncle Terry(he likes the rest of the family also but we have been telling him that in June we were going to Uncle Terry's). What with bathroom breaks we made it to Fort Collins in about eleven hours, which would go much faster if the kids slept more.

It was fun to see family and we got the chance to go visit Crystal Egger, she worked with Brandon and did the weather, while we were in Denver. We got to visit the Denver Temple and Caitlyn sustained the first of many scrapes in the parking lot. Caitlyn came home with way more bumps, bruises and scabs then when she left.

William was excited to stay in a hotel but he was really excited when we woke up and got dressed in our swimsuits for Water World. He kept insisting to look at the pictures online while we were home so he new what rides he could go on.

He was excited to get into the wave pool with his aunts and uncles and various cousins. He thought it was great to jump over the waves as they came rolling in. He insists that he had fun on all of the rides, he did cover his eyes a lot, but he really enjoyed that they had some areas just for kids.

Caitlyn actually let us put her shoes on without socks! It was so weird. She normally insists on the socks. She tended to cling to whomever was holding her during the tube rides, taking her thumb out she say yay when the rides calmed down. She was very content to just find a place to sit down and watch. She was more than ready to get out when the time came.

The National Guard had set up a climbing wall by the picnic shelter where we deposited all of our stuff. William really wanted to climb and the guardsmen where very excited to suit him up.

He didn't go very far up but everyone was cheering him on. He got high fives from everyone and called it good.

After Water World we headed for the hotel to change and get ready for the ball game. After emergency medical care for Brandon's cousin Cameron, we set off to watch the Rockies beat the Cleveland Indians.

We had a great view of the field, it helped that the seats were so high.

William tends to look like he is grimacing but he is really excited to be there.

I'm not sure if all of you can handle the excitement that is portrayed in this picture. Let's just say it had been a long day and my feet were killing me. We only stayed until the seventh inning stretch, Brandon wanted the kids to have that experience, then we headed for the hotel two hours past bedtime and the rest of the family stayed to watch the Rockies win 4-2. Stay tuned for the rest of our Colorado Adventures as this is getting really long and I am tired.