Jessica is an amazing cook and she did tons of the prep work before we showed up so it gave her a chance to enjoy the visit and made Thanksgiving so much easier. Her parents, Randy’s parents, Jessica’s sister and her fiance were all coming over for dinner so a lot of food was going to be involved. While Jess was busy with the food I went into my area of expertise – craft time with the girls.
There was a little bit of snow on the ground so I had to take Dani outside and she loved it. She kept putting her hands on it and laughing and screaming. Then she saw the big girls throwing it and decided she needed to get in on the action and so she started chasing them all over the yard.
Jess made 6 kinds of dessert – that’s right, 6! The food was fantastic and we had fun playing games after dinner. Randy and the girls even sang us a song. It was a great Thanksgiving 2014!
On our drive from NM to CO we enjoyed the mountains and seeing the snow. The photo above was taken through the window and was weird because the whole landscape looked black and white as we drove past. We got to the Peterman’s around 7 pm and had wonderful leftover spaghetti while we caught up and the girls started planning all their adventures. On Tuesday morning we headed to downtown Denver to meet up with Randy for lunch at Union Station. A beautiful remodel was recently completed and I loved the 20’s feel of the place.
These girls didn’t want to cooperate so I just laughed and let them act like fools. We had lunch at a place called Acme Burger. The burgers were wonderful and their fries are amazing because of the delicious seasonings! We all loved it. Then we had ice cream cones from Milkbox Ice Creamery. OH MY GOODNESS! I actually teared up a little when I took a bite of the salted peanut butter ice cream Mike got to share with me. Whoa! YUM! Go there!
Both of our families studied Whales in the fall this year so we planned to see the special Whale Exhibit at the Denver Nature and Science Museum. And on a side note, they rent strollers there for $1. That is amazing and all museums should do this because it’s an easy money maker because nearly everyone would pay it. Another great perk was that they are a reciprocal museum to our home membership so we got in for free. WOO HOO!! We enjoyed the exhibit, but they didn’t allow any cameras inside so the photo above is the only one I have of that part of the day. I was really impressed at how much information we learned in our unit study was on display to see and touch. They had two amazing full size skeletons hanging from the ceiling of a male and female sperm whale. They could crawl through a life-size replica of the heart of the humongous blue whale – the girls LOVED this.
We didn’t have a chance to the rest of the museum, but we did see the Mummy exhibit which Nadia was so excited about. There was a woman volunteer in there who explained in great detail about how the wealthy were mummified. The girls and I had been to a documentary on this earlier in the fall so this was a cool reminder of the things we had learned. We had such a fun day out with such good friends!
We planned to spend Thanksgiving in Colorado with our friends and just like our prior trips we planned to detour through Albuquerque on our way so we could see my Grandma and other family. We made great time to NM and after checking into our hotel we had dinner at a famous New Mexican restaurant called Sadies. The portions were huge and delicious. The Green Chili Queso was so different and tasty. The next morning we checked out of the hotel and headed over to my uncle Jim’s house to visit with everyone.
My uncle is a baseball master so he gave my girls their first lesson in how to play. He was really impressed with how fast and strong Nadia was. Dani just made us laugh!
Our girls with my cousin Leslie’s children Cooper and Clair. ADORABLE!
My cousin Leslie and I.
The girls and I made this for their Great Grandma. She is an amazing painter and I wanted to do something to honor that and she loved this. We had a great visit with everyone including my aunt Leanne and Aunt Angie and her husband Dave. It was a quick visit and I am so glad that everyone was free to see us. After that we hit the road to finish the rest of the drive to CO.
