Those Dandy Dillards: # 18 - Visit Family in Denver in 2009

One of the goals on my 101 goals in 1001 days list was to visit our family in Denver. Matt's sister and brother and their families live there and although we've seen them quite a bit recently, it has always been somewhere else. We hadn't been up to Denver since I was pregnant with Gabriella. Until now. We remedied that situation over Labor Day when we flew up there (probably our last flight where Gabriella will be free since she is quickly approaching 2 years old!)

We had a great visit. The kids loved playing with their cousins, they all played really well together. Matt got to play one of his favorite board games one night which was great for him. We got to have a big water balloon fight and also to see Uncle Dan's radio station/work and Dan and Stephanie's house. We also got to visit their church - and both of our kids walked right into Sunday School to be dropped off... with no crying. Truly amazing! And of course there was lots of catching up with family we would love to see more often than we get to.

Here are some pictures from the trip:

Pig tail Gabby enjoying a snack

Oli getting fit

Gabriella really enjoyed playing on their stairs... and thankfully didn't fall once

Daniel organized a game of "spies" at his place - the kids loved it! I was not one of the spies so I was not privy to all they did. But I do know it involved lots of sneaking, crawling, code names, and completing different missions around their house.

The spies at work on one of their missions

Here is Gabriella - code named "Princess Baby" for the operation

And here is Oliver clad in some hand gear for completing one of the missions I'm sure. Once again, that was classified information that moms were not privy to. I do know that he was code named "Goofs-a-lot" (he named himself... I'm thinking with a little help from a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episode we have recorded on our TiVo).