North Bound

 After not seeing the kids for 3 months, we were both excited to see everyone!  Jaime's came over for coffee and cinnamon rolls one morning and we spent a LONG time catching up!

And even though we had only been home for 4 1/2 days, we headed out on Thursday morning for Denver - Evan had a track meet that afternoon and we were glad we were able to be there!  It was fun to walk into Jessi's house and see the beautiful floor that her and Gary had put down - wow did it change the looks of their house!  BEAUTIFUL!!

It wasn't long before it was time to pick up Gwyn at school so Jessi and I walked to the school and boy was I glad to hug that little girl - only she's growing like a weed so not so little anymore at all!  She talked a mile a minute all the way home!

We packed a picnic dinner and soon headed to the track meet which was about 45 minutes away!  Evan looked like a star in his outfit and sunglasses!

It was a beautiful day out - but we started in t-shirts (I had to borrow one as was so focused on bringing warm clothes for the evening that I forgot to pack t-shirts!) and that evening had on 3 layers!  Boy when that sun goes down it still gets downright cold!

It was fun seeing Evan run - he ran the 4x800 relay and they WON!  Impressive!  And he ran fantastic!  But after running he came over and said his foot was hurting.  And by the time his next event came around, we could tell as soon as he started running that he was hurting!  He was able to finish but of course was disappointed that he didn't run well due to the injury - the coach said probably a stress fracture in his foot!  It was a great time at the track meet!

Friday Jessi and Gary both worked and Evan was in school but the 2 girls had it off!  Luckily Jessi had saved time in the morning for us to have COFFEE!  Hooray - always a bright spot in the day!  She headed to work afterwards and I drove back to her house and gathered everyone and we went to the park to play!

Kenzie and Papa had fun hitting the volleyball and I watched Gwyn play on the jungle gym bars and swings!

Since Kenzie loves sushi, we went to King Soopers and we all picked out sushi and sashimi to eat for lunch!  Gwyn picked out strawberries but loved the sushi too!

Jessi fixed one of my favorite meals for dinner - crab linguine!  It's actually called spicy chicken linguine but a lot of times we substitute crab for the chicken - it was delicious!  Then it was off to Evan's jazz concert!

The concert was amazing - Evan plays saxaphone in jazz band #1 and next year will move up to jazz band #2!  They played some excellent music that night!

We headed to Dairy Queen after the concert for ice cream - yum!!  The line was long but it was worth it!  After breakfast, we headed out early for Ft. Collins for the 2nd 1/2 of our mini journey!