Colorado Summer 2012

We flew to Colorado on Friday morning, the day after flying to Houston, to spend some time with Brooks' dad and his wife.  We had a blast on our trip and enjoyed the time there.  The weather was perfect (although it did rain several times on us) but that didn't stop us from playing and going to the mountains and having lots of fun!  

**I lost half our pictures from our trip because I put an unformatted SD memory card into our camera and all the images came back with no data on them.  I was so bummed.  Brooks did download some software program and we were able to recover about 1/4 of them, but still so many moments captured that we don't have anymore!

We kicked off our trip with a night at the Colorado Rockies Baseball game.  We're all about giving the boys as many opportunities for life experiences while we're home in the USA and this one was perfect!  We had great seats and were able to see the field perfectly.  Gavin enjoyed some cotton candy and peanuts and there was an amazing firework show after the game that we got to watch.  While we were waiting for the show to start Miles was standing on my legs bouncing and jumping and we all ended up on the big screen/jumbo tron.  It was fun!  Just minutes before the fireworks started Miles fell asleep in my arms and didn't budge the entire show-- all thanks to jetlag!  

All the Perry Guys having fun (even though they kinda don't look like it in the pic)

Brooklyn was a great sport at her first sporting event!

Not only was the view of the sun setting beautiful, but if you notice the words on the big screen... in the middle of singing the national anthem I got teary eyed and loved feeling patriotic. 

GAVIN LOVED EATING COTTON CANDY!!  MILES LOVED DANCING TO THE LOUD MUSIC PLAYING.  THE FIREWORKS SHOW WAS SPECTACULAR!

 

We really had a somewhat easy transition this trip, but it could have something to do with us giving the boys benadryl before they went to bed, just to help allow them the chance to sleep.  I know it sounds horrible, but with 3 kids on different jetlag schedules while traveling and spending time with family, we just went with it and it worked.  Brooklyn did awesome too.  She would wake up once a night, take her pacifier and go back to sleep.  They all managed to sleep in until 5 or 6am every morning!  During the day was a little different story, but everyone managed.   Overall, it took us a week to be completely over jetlag and functioning on a normal schedule!  

We drove to Golden one morning and spent some time in the area where Brooks went to college at.  We took the kids to the park, walked around a farmer's market, they took a horse carriage ride, got sno cones, and had a fun day.  Brooks took us to a local burrito shop he use to eat at all the time and got to enjoy some mexican food.

 

We went and visited Brooks' grandparents while we're in Colorado and introduced them to Brooklyn.  Grandma Jan was so excited to meet B and kept getting her to smile.  Grandpa Larry asked Brooks if our house got burned from the fires (he thought we lived in Colorado Springs) we politely told him the fires were too far from our house to burn it, which was the truth.  

One of the things Brooks really wanted to do while we were in Colorado was go up to the mountains!  We figured the best way for them to get into the mountains was for me and Juli to take the 2 little kids shopping while Brooks, his dad, and Gavin went hiking.  We had a great time at the Outlet Malls (the babies did great) and the guys went up into the mountains and did some hiking!  Gavin loved walking on the trails, looking for animals, climbing trees, and searching for walking sticks.  He hasn't stopped talking about that trip and neither has Brooks.  They really did have fun!  

Isn't that view gorgeous?!?!

While up in the mountains we went and ate at one of Brooks' favorite restaurants, The Mint.  You literally cook your own food on this massive grill they have in the center of the restaurant.  It's a really neat concept and was fun to do- Gavin got to help out, too.  The restaurant fixes your sides while you prepare your meat the way you like it! Everythings out for your picking-- seasonings, butter, onions, etc.

Gavin was so excited to prep the steaks-- he takes this job serious

Part of our day in the mountains all together was spent taking a Gondola ride up to Breckenridge!  It was beautiful and breathtaking.  I really haven't been in the mountains while they aren't covered in snow so this was really neat for me.  The boys loved the ride and looked all over at the trees and thought they were flying!  Once we got to the resort area we found a huge kid play area where families can go and purchase all day passes and kids can do various activities.  We arrived later in the afternoon when most of the rides and things were about to close, but we did manage to squeeze in one horse ride for Gavin.  Miles was really too little for most of the stuff and anything he could have done cost WAY TOO MUCH for not knowing if he'd even like it.  So we let him watch!

Figures-- this is the family picture that was recovered!  Still love the view though.  

Another day while it was raining we decided to spend the afternoon at a Fun House and let the boys play.  It cost us $2.00 and they played on inflatables, in a play house, dress up, and a massive ball arena for almost 4 hours and had a blast!!

As much stuff as we did, we still enjoyed some down time around the house visiting and eating.

We were so happy that things worked out for us to go up to Colorado and spend some time with family.  Brooks loves being up in the mountains and would love nothing more then to have some kind of cabin up in the mountains to relax and enjoy some day.  Who knows if it will happen.  Anyways, we loved doing fun stuff and our time in Colorado really did allow us to give the boys new experiences and we got to make some great memories.