We spent the weekend is Estes Park, celebrating Christmas with Grandpa Steve and Lorna and except for an almost literally sleepless night on Friday, we had a great time! Dempsey has been asking “why did we have to leave??” since we got home yesterday afternoon, so I think it’s safe to say he had fun 🤍

We picked Dempsey up from school Friday afternoon, then swung by Grandma Lori’s to get our girl and headed up. We turned Lydia’s car seat around, so now she can watch TV on the iPad too (long drive only, I swear) and it was the most peaceful car ride I’ve ever had with these two 😂 We got there right as Uncle Adam, Auntie Lauren and Landon were unloading from their car, so it was pretty good timing. We went out for pizza at Antonio’s and I thought it was all very very good! A pizza robot delivered our food! The kids were running around a bit too much, otherwise it was a very good time! Back at home, the kids got into their matching pajamas courtesy of Auntie Lauren and we tried our best to get a photo of them all together before bed time 😉

Lydia had a ROOOOOOUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHH night of “sleep.” She was battling a cold all week and kept waking up coughing. At 1 AM, I finally got up to bring her into our room but she could not get comfortable laying down, so we spent the rest of the night singing, watching Frozen, trying to explain why we couldn’t wake “Buddy” up and nearly pulling our hair out. Fun times 🥱 Dempsey was awake at 5:45 (whyyyyy) and I slept a little bit while Joey entertained the kids and then we all made our way downstairs around 7. I made us a sheet pan pancake and bacon and then after Dempsey asked about a million times to open his stocking, we did presents. The kids got such fun stuff and the adults too!

Lydi took an early but good nap, so around 1:45, we headed into town for taffy and the snowman festival. Dempsey only told us 100 times that he did not want to see Santa 😅 Lydia likes candy way more than a two-year-old should, so she got to try some taffy and the festival was actually pretty cute! We DID see Santa but Dempsey sat on my lap far away from him, so it worked and then the littles walked around, danced to the holiday music they were playing, watched the ice sculptor and made it to the activity tent at the end. It was small and crowded in there but Dempsey made a couple of ornaments and even got a elf shoe glitter tattoo that I don’t think is ever coming off 😂

We went back home for a bit and Mom took a nap! Dempsey and Grandpa Steve were outside for a while with the rocket launcher and Lydia hung with Joey, then we all went to dinner at Bird & Jim. It was nice and cozy in there and the staff was very kind but I was not impressed with the food. Halfway through the meal, we asked Dempsey how his chicken nuggets were and he said “bad!” We all tasted them and they were dry, unseasoned and BURNT. Oh well. We washed it all down with blueberry pie and ice cream at home.

We headed home after a really good breakfast made by Lauren the next morning. We truly had such a fun time and I hope we can do it again some time 🥰