Xmas in Denver

The month of December was a crazy whirlwind of FUN! As soon as we dropped off my mom at the airport (she came to celebrate MY birthday) we headed off to Colorado. We spent the first half of our vacation at Grandpa Bills house. The kids have so much fun with grandpa AND his dogs :-)

Reis our little climber!!

While in Colorado we also hit up Casa Bonita...the kids had fun watching the divers show, the dark cave and the pinata!!! We also headed over to my brother-in-law Shawn's aunts house to see some fun animals and ride horses. The kids loved petting and feeding the horses.

Here is Shawn giving Everett a ride on his horse. Now Shawn doesn't ride horses very often and they started to walk the horse and the horse started to go faster and THIS mommy got a little panicked and got Everett right off :-)
Bryan wanted a turn...poor horse :-)
So, this is where I great day could of turned horribly bad! Everett really wanted to ride a horse, so Shawn's aunt said she would walk Everett on this horse cuz it is a very calm horse. She also wanted Bryan to be right beside Everett since we didn't know what he would do. So, off they walked and Everett was loving it and kept saying "faster, faster." So they decided to jog and the next thing you know the horse got skiddish and was trying to get away from Bryan and the aunt. And all I saw was Bryan leaping towards the horse and grabbed Everett. Holy Crap!! Evers cried for like a minute and then wanted right back on the horse. I am glad that did not make him afraid of horses but I called it a day.
This picture cracks me up! Reis always grabs my hair and rubs it against his cheek and ear. I guess I got a break cuz he just grabbed Kylie's tail and was rubbing it against his face.
We helped grandpa decorate his xmas tree. Everett thought it was pretty darn fun..go figure. Aunt Ashley and Aunt Kaye were helping Everett put the ornaments on the tree...then it was on to some dancy dance time!!!
Those were some great moves!!!
Christmas morning was great. We came down the stairs and Everett saw his bike and immediately wanted to take off his pj's..guess he thought he couldn't ride it until he was dressed.
So this clapping monkey kept Reis intertained the whole time we were at grandpa's. He didn't care about the presents he just wanted to play with the annoying monkey...whatever makes him happy :-) (This monkey used to be at Bryan's grandparents house and he remembers being afraid of it everytime he went to his grandparents.)




Such a fun christmas in Colorado!!