Denver Zoo

 The Denver Zoo is amazing. The exhibits are so well done and they get you really close to the animals.

 Nine of the Ten kids. Davis was in the stroller.

At one point, Karaia came up to me and said, "Mom! I was lost!" We had unofficially split up into three groups in one of the indoor exhibits that had a lot of little, twisty rooms. I had just assumed she was with one of the other groups. "I had to ask one of the zoo workers to help me find you!"

So scary! The sad thing is, I kept feeling like I should go check on Karaia, but then I kept convincing myself she was just with one of the other groups. Next, time I'll listen to those promptings faster!
Thank goodness she is a smart girl and knows what to do if she is lost.

Beckham just HAD to take a picture of this snake.

Yes those are my glasses. He didn't care one bit because the sun was SO bright.

This was the best zoo I've been to. We were there for hours and didn't even come close to seeing everything. Next time we'll have older children and plan to spend more time.

The Park in Parker

I've lost track of the days at this point. But one of the days we went to a great park in Parker, where Annie lives.


The park was great. There were two playgrounds. One geared toward older children, one for the younger tykes. We had lunch there and pretty much just tried to keep track of all 10 kids. There were SO many other people there. 


After the park we headed across the street to get some ice cream. 


The rest of the day was spent at home. The girl cousins never had any problems with each other. The boys? Well, they mostly got along. Tennyson and Brenner and a best friend/best enemy relationship. The LOVED each other and shadowed the other one...until something happened. It was never a big thing and it wasn't an all day thing either. But at least once a day one or the other one was ready to disown his cousin. 


Sanders and Davis kind of played with each other. Sanders usually tried to hang out with Brenner and Tennyson though.


Poor Beckham felt a little lost this trip sometimes. Tennyson, Sanders, Brenner, and Davis we just a little too young for him and the girls sometimes felt kind of "girls only club-ish" or they were just paired off really well. Karaia and Brightynn and Marlee and Mckinney. Little Jordyn was happy to just hang out with everyone. Beckham did pretty well. But we would find him wandering alone and every once in awhile he would express that he felt lonely. That will all change as Tennyson gets older and likes more of the same things Beckham does. 

The over all feeling of the week was that they kids LOVED hanging out with their cousins. Nothing better than helping my kids build memories like that. 

Another day, we spent at a water park. There wasn't once complaint from a single child the whole 3 hours we were there. 

Parker is a lovely place. There is so much to do and it's such a clean inviting environment. It will get better and better as the kids get older and we can explore with less stress. 


Thanks for sharing your city with us, Annie.

Driving problems

June 10th, the kids and I headed to Colorado with Annie. Along with Brianna, her two girls, and Mom. Kevin left the same day for a 3 week long business trip to Washington D.C.

The morning started out great. We were on time and the weather was perfect. The we turned into classic women drivers. The GPS had issues and we had some miscommunication as to which direction we were going. SO two hours after we left the Syracuse area and headed East, we were still in Utah.

Sigh.

We added two WHOLE hours to an 8 hour drive.

The kids did great.

The adults. Well, we tried to be as adult as we could.

All I could think at the end of our trip was, "I could have been in Disneyland by now."

It's a good thing Annie is worth it.

Relearning

If you don't do something for awhile, even if you were really good at it the last time you did it, there is going to be an adjustment period before you can return to your former skill level.

That's where I find myself right now. It's clear that Kev and I have been souly in charge of the decisions in our own little worlds on opposite ends of the country for a long period of time. We KNOW we work extremely well together. It will just take some relearning to get back to that after living alone for three weeks.

I have no doubts. These are just minor growing pains.

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Family time

It was so nice to have Kevin home today.

I got to sleep in!!!!

We went everywhere as a family and just got things done.

It's nice to enjoy a little normal.

Gettin' Crazy

Kevin's home!!!!!

The kids were SO excited to see him coming down the escalator at the airport.

I was so excited to see him tucking kids in bed!

On another note, look who convinced his mom that summer time is a good time to get crazy with the hair styles.

He's been begging for this cut for months. It was a good compromise considering that what he really wanted was to be bald. As in Bic it please bald...just to see what it was like.

He is one happy boy.

Home tomorrow

Kevin comes home tomorrow!

That's all I can possibly think about.

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