big blog hiatus

If anyone has noticed, my blog has been neglected for the past 2-3 months. Life has been happening and we have been busy.

The beginning of May I was finishing my spring semester of grad school on May 7th and I had plans to take two summer intercession courses which were from May 12th-June 30th.

For some reason I had a grand idea that we should sneak in a quick family get-away/vacation between my spring and summer classes. Yes, a whole four days off did not give us much time to work with. We booked a trip to Denver, CO to visit one of Bob's cousins and explore the city of Denver. Once we had the trip planned and booked I realized that it fell on Mother's Day weekend, OOPS! We took care of our moms beforehand and I believe all was forgiven.

This was our second plane trip with our little man, and once again we were fortunate to not have any traumatic episodes or meltdowns. We even had a major delay leaving OKC and he did amazing.

During our time in Denver it happened to snow 3-5 inches, which even for Denver that is quite out of the norm for the beginning of May. Luckily, the snow we experienced in Denver was nothing like I've ever seen in Oklahoma City. Their snow was soft and fluffy and came right off the car in one big swoop. The only snow I've experienced in Oklahoma is the kind with a ton of ice on top or underneath it and it is incredibly difficult to scrape off the car or drive on the roads safely. This was so not the case fortunately. This is a picture of when the snow first started to accumulate outside our hotel.

 One of the major highlights of the trip for us was going to the Children's Museum in Denver. It was a toddler's dream come true. This place is very much deservedly on the Forbes top ten list of children's museums. Our little guy had  a blast and wore him self completely out.

 We also went to a place called tiny town that was near the more mountainous area of Denver and they had a little town, park, and a train to ride. My only regrets are that he was just so incredibly tired from the time zone change and most of the places we went to opened late in the morning, which meant we were usually there close to his nap time.

Here we are on the train

 

 And here's little man going down the slide.

 

Unfortunately, nap time was usually spent at the hotel for three hours during the day. He was one tired boy during the trip.

We had fun getting away for a little bit and now I've been finished with my summer course for a little over a week now. No school for me for the month of July so I will try to continue bringing the blog up to speed on our busy lives.