Colorado Trip

So we headed out tuesday morning Feb 24th (after I got home from working all night--yep, no sleep for me). It was a little ruff start as we had to force Tylenol and Zithromax down Austin before leaving--which he then threw up. (The day before leaving I took him in to the doctor's and found out he had pneumonia.) Poor guy. But other than forcing down the medicine (note to self--don't try to dilute Zithromax with juice or McDonald's orange punch because it doesn't work at all) he was a great sport and the car ride to Colorado Springs went amazing well. For most of the way I sqeezed myself between the two carseats in the backseat and pulled out my bag of tricks to keep the kids happy--toys, food, books, puzzles, movies. And they were soooo great--only got a little fussy the last hour of the trip.

Austin was pretty excited to see Tyler and they had a fun time playing together--most of the time. This is about the only picture when Austin was happy and not whinning that Tyler was on his pillow.

The next day we went to Pump It Up and had a blast!! It was 2 huge rooms of inflatable playground. And it only cose $6 for Austin (parents were free)!!

The funnest part was going down the big slide---over and over

I don't know who had more fun--Austin or Craig. It was an easy hour and 1/2 of entertainment and exhaustion.
At one point I was rooting Austin to "go go" and he turned at looked at me and said "No, I'm tired".


The next day we went to the Children's Museum in Denver. They had all sort of neat areas for kids to play and use their imagination. These were some of Austin's favorites:

The Firetruck

The Train Stop

The Vet Hospital

The Supermarket

The Animal Forest

(Austin was a squirrel and an ant if you couldn't tell)

That night we met up with Brian and Angie at Chuckie Cheese for Angie's birthday (oops-no pictures) Austin had a great time playing games and so did us big kids. I did walk away victorious winning the most tickets (30) on the "Deal or No Deal" game.

Over the weekend Craig flew to Wisconsin to meet up with him family for his grandpa's funeral. He had a great experience and was glad that he could be there---he left there with a new respect for his grandma after hearing stories about his life.

Meanwhile I hung out at my sisters house. These pictures are from a cute place called "Focus on the Family" that we wenet to. It is nice when the kids don't need us for entertainment.

On the drive home we pulled out a new toy we had gotten Austin---a Little Einstein's Rocket with the Einstein's inside (his new favorite cartoon) And what a blessing it quickly became as he must of played with that toy for 4 hours straight. The kids were again awesome on the ride back and the last 2 hours Austin watched Little Einstein's videos. It was a great trip but it was nice to be back home.