Thursday, May 7, 2009

Nana and Pop Pop Visit to Denver!

My parents were able to join us on Friday April 17th following my dad's recovery from emergency appendix surgery. They arrived during our spring blizzard. Luckily, it was just raining when we picked them up at the airport.

Here are 3 generations dressed up for dinner: And Nana and Pop Pop with Alexis:

Nana and Alexis staying warm inside on Saturday during the blizzard.

Then they went out and made a snowman...

And the used the snowman decorations Alexis got for Christmas and had not been able to use until now....

Mommy and daddy and Alexis with probably the last snowman for a long time...

On Sunday, we ventured out into Colorado with almost 3 feet in some areas... This is the chapel at the Air Force Academy.

In front of the school...

Then we headed to Garden of the Gods...

Three generations under the rocks...

Then on the rocks...

Alexis just wanted to be upside for a picture...

Pouting about something (don't really remember...)
Then we went to Lookout Mountain in Golden and they got about 2 feet of snow...

Beautiful Colorado as we are coming down Lookout Mountain...

On Monday, we started at Hammond's Candy Factory for a tour and some sampling...everyone got a bag of their favorites... Then we headed to the Colorado Railroad Museum...
Excited to be the engineer...
Then we headed into Golden for lunch at Table Mountain Grille...I think they saw Mickey Mouse (that is how we get Alexis to look at the camera)
Then to top off lunch, we took a tour of Coors Brewery...
And had a few samples...my favorite was Blue Moon, but Nana didn't care for any of them; Pop Pop liked all of them. Alexis took this picture...in fact, she took a lot of pictures entertaining herself as she sipped on her root beer. Then mommy and daddy had a long weekend getaway and Alexis stayed with Nana and Pop Pop. They went to the Wings Over the Rockies one day...

And then to the Denver Zoo another day...
Alexis had two soccer games while we were away and Nana and Pop Pop were great soccer grandparents.

The following Monday morning, we woke up to more snow and Nana and Alexis built another mini-snowman...only Nana wanted to pose for the picture...

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