Denver Vaca!

So we knew we wanted to make a trip down to Denver this summer to see my family and get away, but it made it even easier to decide to make it down there when one of my old friends from Idaho (she now lives in Colorado Springs) let me know she was getting married in May in Colorado Springs. So this time around, we decided to spend a little more money and fly instead of drive to save our sanity. Even though, we later realized after getting on the airplane that driving may have ended up being better as Brooke did not want to sit still for any part of the flight. Lucky for us, she was much better on the way back home. We stayed with my Uncle Stew and cousins for most of our trip, and I really enjoyed being able to spend some time with them just hanging out. Needless to say.....we had a BLAST and I am so glad that everything worked out for us to have this nice getaway.

Since Haylee enjoyed the aquarium so much the last time, we could not miss out on hitting up the Downtown Denver Aquarium again. This time both kids got to enjoy it!

Since we were already going to be in Colorado Springs for Madison's wedding, we decided to stay there overnight and do some sight seeing. Madison's wedding was at a beautiful place called Blue Skies Inn Bed and Breakfast. The kids enjoyed wearing their new dresses and showing them off and even Dereck and I dressed up for the occasion (even though there are no pics of us). Madison also married a guy named Derek so I guess we both have the same taste in names. Congratulations to Madi and Dereck Switzer!

While we were in Colorado Springs, we visited Garden of the Gods. It was absolutely breathtaking! I couldn't help myself from taking a million pictures.

We also had to stop back by the Denver Zoo again since we only made it through about half the zoo the last time. This time, we started on the other end of the zoo and made it through the other half before we called it a day when we were all getting too hot, tired, and hungry to go on. We finally made it through the whole zoo! It only took us two visits to do it. Maybe next time we will get really ambitious and try to do the whole zoo in one visit. We had a great trip and are already planning our next trip to Denver.