Denver doings

What a fun time we had in Denver. Amy and Misha met us at the Denver airport complete with signs welcoming us! It was so good to see all 3 girls and Chris and Jo and to give them real live time hugs! It had been over a year since we had seen them.

On Tuesday morning bright and early, Dad and I stood in for Chris and Jo at the LDS Cannery in Aurora, just N of Denver and canned PearSauce for 4 hours. I cored and cored and cored ripe pears and Dad assisted with putting the finished cans into this BIG metal round cage before they went into the pressure cooker. It was fun and we were able to bring home a few cans in our suitcase. Makes you realize how much you like your day job! What a blessing it is to have all the opportunites for service in our church.

We spent lots of time at their house just hanging out, playing and enjoying each other. One day they took us to Boulder, up in the foothills, and we hiked a bit up the mountain side. It was great even though it was at 1 mile high!

The girls had time to play with the Legos I brought, and Kristen loved to stack Jenga blocks and we built houses together.

Jo made a yummy Thanksgiving Dinner and we enjoyed it on their new dining room table with the china Christopher brought back from Grandma Andrews when she moved to Phoenix.

Once Thanksgiving Dinner was over, the girls wanted to walk to their school across the street and pick up garbage so it would look nice and then played on the swings and stuff for a few cold minutes. I was amazed at all the trash we all picked up. Even Kristen got into the action and would race Dad or I for the next bit of trash. Way to go girls.

We were so surprised when we were coming home Friday night from the Firestone rec center where we had gone for a family swim hour and little bits of snow started falling! They had forecasted it earlier in the day, but it had gotten too warm and we didn't think it would happen. By the time we woke up on Saturday morning, Christopher's house looked like this!

Well, we had a wonderful dinner at an Italian diner in big beautiful downtown Firestone. We went shopping for some Christmas presents on Black Friday and were able to catch some of the sales so we could leave their presents there with them and not have to mail them! Yay! As usual, I was VERY SAD to have to leave and cried when we started to get ready with the suitcases. It was a great time. We are so glad we got to go. Our big suitcase, the one we had to pay Frontier $15 to take ( they charge you for any suitcases you check ) took its own vacation to Phoenix on the way home and finally made its way to our house this evening about 7 pm, everything was in it, Yay! http://picasaweb.google.com/hightechmom/Denver1108#