3 Men & A Little Lady: Colorado Getaway!

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Colorado Getaway!

Every summer we travel to Colorado to getaway from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. We always have a great time with family and friends. On this vacation, we also traveled over to Utah to hike and visit more family. After a long drive the boys are always ready to burn lots of energy & that is exactly what they did!

Drew is a natural born hiker and would LOVE to live in Colorado so he could go hiking everyday! He is like the energizer bunny and keeps going, and going, and going! He gets mad if the hikes are too short. Here he is scaling a rock in Moab, UT.

The one and only....Famous Aunties! I can't say enough about how blessed I am to be married into such an amazing family. I have so much love, respect, and appreciation for Kenny's sisters. They love my boys so much and are always willing to play Octopus, read books, have slumber party's, hike, and play. My children adore them! We were sad however not to see Cat, Gabi, and the Waters family. Next time :)

Owen is not quite the hiker that Drew & Ian were at his age. This is how he preferred to hike, letting the Aunties do all the work!

Our next stop was Monticello, UT. Kelly Summers, aka Grandpa Summers, grew up in Monticello in an old historic hotel. The boys loved being able to run around the big house and to pick out any room they wanted to sleep in. I loved being able to hear all the fascinating stories about Kelly and his four sisters growing up there. I would love to pick this house up and move it to CA! This home has so much character and charm.

We had fun playing tag in the front yard & Owen had fun shooting all of us!

Kelly's father was a cowboy and they still have land where they herd cattle. The boys enjoyed the hay bales and Mya had fun driving grandmas car! She is naked due to a diaper leak!

Our next stop, for the boys was to camp and hike around Ragged Mountain. I decided this should be a boys only trip, so I spent time with the girls watching the first season of Glee!

Ian loved catching a fish and eating one bite!

Our last hike before leaving beautiful CO was in Grand Junction. Mya got to ride around on daddy's back, thanks to the Grover's letting us borrow their backpack. We don't know how we have gone through 4 kids without getting one of these. Kenny even put her in it to make cookies!

Look how tall Ian is and how long their hair is!

And of course our trip to CO would not be complete without mentioning how wonderfully we ate while there, thanks to Grandma of course!

Not only did we have a great time with family, but we also got to go swimming, to the movies, batting cages, and out to dinner with our friends the Cases, Thergesons, and Alles.

Unfortunately our vacation had to end. Kenny is back to the Vet clinic & I am off getting the boys ready for school that starts Monday. I need another vacation! More details on that trip to come!

1 comment:

Pattersons said...: so glad you had a blast on your vacation:) the pics. were great and i'm seriously thinking we should all go with you next time to colorado!; August 19, 2010 at 1:28 PM

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They say the cutest things.....

Mya, my little girl, said in her prayers last night, "Please help us to be strong and healthy like the Hulk!"

Owen almost ran straight into a woman as we entered a dark parking garage. As I told him to watch out, he quickly yelled, "Well she's all black!" Coincidentally she was African American! She was wearing a black dress, which is what he was referring too!

Owen told me today, "You are the best mom I ever had! I love you all the way up to Jesus!" He also loves kissing and told Kenny, "I just want to stay home from school and kiss mom all day!"

Drew lost a tooth at school when he bit into his apple. He felt the tooth inside his mouth as he was chewing and when I asked him about it, he said, "I didn't realize it was mine and I wondered if it was one of the workers!"

While at church, a teacher asked the kids what happened to Jesus right after he was baptized and brought up from the water. Ian enthusiastically raised his hand and said, "He asked for a towel!"

After a long struggle with my boys, to get them inside, bathed, and into bed, I yelled, "I am done, go to sleep!" Owen looked up at me and said, "Mommy I'm sorry you're sad, but the problem is that you don't beat up Drew and Ian. Just beat them up and I will be on your team!"

We are not a family who eats beans, so when Drew went to a friends house to play and eat dinner, he was hesitant to eat the burrito that had refried beans in it. When I picked him up he said to me, "Mom she put mud inside the burrito!"

Aunt Connie pleaded with Owen to shoot his daddy with the gun instead of her and his response, "No, he's the best daddy i've ever had!"

I begged the boys to quit fighting and Drew looked at me and said, "Its not Mothers Day anymore mom!"

Owen got kicked in his "man hood" and said, "Oh, I hurt my Tenders!"

Drew asked this morning, "Mom in 2011 can we get a cat?"

Everytime I feed Mya prunes, Owen comes up to me and says, "Me like chocolate mom!" I give him a bite and his face turns to total disgust.

Owen ran up to me after wrestling the dogs and said, "Me see Cassie's boobies!"

While I was nursing Mya, Drew walked in and said, "Is she done drinking from your boob?" I replied, "No and it is called a breast, thats the proper way to say it." He looked at me puzzled and said, "No thats the Spanish word for it."

Kenny opened the fridge and said, "Something in here stinks." Ian looked at him and said, "Dad, sometimes I toot over there!"

Last night as the boys were saying good night to Mya, Drew looked up at me and said, "Mom, Mya has a boy haircut!"

Drew was reminding me about how when we saw macaws in Hawaii, that one of the macaws was chewing on a woman's hair. He said, about the macaw, "Thats not very nice, it's not choosing the right."

My favorite word Drew and Ian used to say when they were toddlers was, Laddie- for water. I thought it was such a cute word. Owen comes to the fridge and points his little finger and says, "Wa-Wa" for water. So cute!

Last night Kenny went in on a call to deliver a goat and Ian came into our bed. He climbed in and snuggled up beside me, he usually snuggles into Kenny. I asked him why he was snuggling with me and he said, "I can snuggle you because daddy isn't here mom!" He is such a daddy's boy.

Ian is such a daddy's boy. The other night Kenny had to go to the clinic and Ian was sobbing for him for a good twenty minutes because he wanted to go too. When I asked him why he was so upset he replied, "I just want my daddy, he is my favorite boy!"

Birthday parties celebrated in California are usually BIG! There is always a huge jumper, pinata, food for the whole family, and tons of presents. Well we went to a party last night and the boys spent 2 hrs. jumping in a big jumper. On our way home we saw another party going on that had an even bigger jumper with a slide attached. Ian asked, "Can we go to that party too?" I replied, "We don't even know who those people are. " His response, "Well lets just go ask them their names."

As we prepared to go to the Glenwood Springs pool in Colorado with Kenny's four sisters Drew impatiently said, "Come on girls, you're taking too long!" Kenny told him, "Get used to it, this is what men do, wait for girls to get ready."

Much to my dismay I found black ink all over our white sheets on our bed. I of course went straight to Ian and asked very sternly, "Did you write on my sheets with a pen?" With an innocent look he replied, "I was just trying to write my name."

Drew was watching me as I divided my hair into sections with clips to straighten it. He looked up at me and said, "Wow, you look beautiful!" Then when I was completely done with my hair he said, "You're a cute little mommy!"

Ian was dipping his finger in Kenny's contact solution and then touching his eye. I asked him what he was doing and he replied, "Just putting my eyes in mom!"