A few weeks ago, when the girls were still at daycare up in Broomfield but we had already moved to the house in Arvada, I was on my way to pick up the girls right after a rainstorm went through. I saw this beauty and quickly grabbed my iPhone to snap a few pictures. It was such a glorious rainbow and I was so glad to have seen it, as I had missed a few and haven't seen a rainbow in quite some time.
On Sunday night, we bathed the girls in preparation for Picture Day, which was yesterday, in City Park in Denver. (Though, they needed a bath anyway.) I had also promised the girls that I would paint their nails, as both girls have come to enjoy having paint on their nails.This here is one of the few pictures Adam took with the new camera this weekend. One thing about a point-and-shoot, like we have, and then the lack of editing software (which we are severely lacking) is that I find it really difficult to take good sunset pictures. The photos never seem to do the actual justice. Definitely something that we’ll keep playing and learning with on our new little camera.
It wouldn’t be a normal outing for us if we didn’t hit a fourth brewery for the day. So, on our way home, we first stopped and ate Mexican (man, can our kids pound the chips and salsa), and then we stopped at the Left Hand Brewing Company for a flight before heading home. Left Hand has a really neat tasting room, some great labels (and hence, great t-shirt designs), and awesome taster glasses as well.
The girls also enjoyed the outdoor patio and we felt safe to let them run around a little bit as it was fenced in. The girls got quite a bit of that salsa on their clothes from earlier, but knowing I would want to take pictures in the evening, I had brought a second set of clothes for them. Yes, I do like to dress them alike – I am a sucker for matching clothes.
These pictures also represent how the girls tend to look at the end of the day. A little hyped, hair askew, and generally in the last throws of crazy before bedtime. Surprisingly neither of them fell asleep on the way home, but that could be due to all of the singing in the car.
One more quick post to finish out our Saturday adventure… hang in there!
erin
Really, I should be titling these, “The Saturday of Labor Day Weekend”. I told ya I had a load of pictures.
While the girls were still napping, we drove to a new brewery in Fort Collins. Forgive me, I don’t know the name of it, Adam didn’t think the beers were that great, and I sat in the car anyway because the kids were sleeping and I will still working off my buzz from the previous places.
After that, I decided we should go to a park, and we found City Park in Fort Collins (funny, I was in two different City Parks this weekend… today we were at City Park in Denver). The girls had a great time and Adam and I tag-teamed them (while the “off” parent got to sit in the shade at the picnic table).
erin
What is a trip to Fort Collins (or anywhere, for that matter) without a few brewery stops?
Our first stop was Odell Brewing Company, and before heading in, we allowed the girls to play a little bitty outside. Little does Odell know that their bike racks make good jungle gyms.
Odell also had quite the number of grasshoppers jumping around, so Adam took a few moments to show the girls some grasshoppers, and even got Raven to touch a very dumb one.
Both Adam and I enjoyed a flight of beer.
Raven and Julia enjoyed the complementary water. (You can see why we needed a mop. Twice.)
Uh, oh! Someone is getting sad and HUNGRY!
Julia says, “Let’s head over to Fort Collins Brewery!” (Or maybe she said, “Let’s get some CHICKEN!”)
So off we went. We ate at Gravity 1020, which is the restaurant connected to the Fort Collins Brewery. Seeing this place was amazing, as I remember both Odell and FCB being much, much smaller!
I tried their Chocolate Stout and drank a bottle of their Vanilla Bean soda. Adam also tried some beer. While we waited for our food, Julia pretended to be the Little Mermaid and Raven played with a napkin on her head.
Adam and I enjoyed the food a bit, and I had my first ever Polenta Fries… yum! Three is WAY too many, though!
After lunch, it was naptime for the girls (and Daddy too), so Adam dropped me off at Lambspun, conveniently across the street from FCB, and I shopped while Adam took the girls for a drive to get them to fall asleep.
erin
On Saturday we headed to Fort Collins. The ulterior motive was picking up honey for Adam’s latest beer (being brewed as I type this), but we love Fort Collins, so we decided to make a day of it.
I broke the weekend up into a few posts, mostly because I have so many pictures to share with you! I bought a used camera off of a friend and am having so much fun learning how to use it!
The first place we stopped after picking up the honey was the Swetsville Zoo, a sculpture park where the sculptures are made from scrap metal.
Julia was not a fan of the metal animals… at least, not the dinosaurs.
She did warm up to the bird shaped sculptures though. Much smaller and apparently more loveable.
Raven, as always, had a blast running around, picking up sticks, and generally wrecking havoc.
Both girls enjoyed the stream that was near the park and gave each other a little love. Of course, this was before the hair-pulling ensued.
The girls also enjoyed picking up and throwing rocks into the water. This must be instinctual… maybe from the days when we had to kill fish with our bare hands or something? Why else would rocks be thrown into the water?
As always seems to happen our outings, Julia became the quiet and side-clinging one, while Raven… well… Raven got a little naughty.
This landed her a trip on dad’s shoulders. (I guess from her perspective, it isn’t the worst place to be.)
Next up? OBC and FCBC.
erin
We came home from church this morning and I saw a huge bird swoop and perch on our swamp cooler located at the peak of our roof. From what I can tell it was a big grey bird with black on its wings. I tried to take a 2nd picture and caught it just as it was flying away. Had to post a blog with these shots taken from my iphone. Can’t say that I’ve ever had a heron or egret on my roof before, how about you?
