Lafeen's in Littleton

Justin has been traveling to Denver for his drill weekends for about a year now, at Buckley Air Force Base.  I think I've mentioned on there that during his second or third time out I went with -no kids, for the weekend.  We met up with a friend of mine and his wife and had dinner together and then I met them with their kids at a Farmers Market another morning.  We talked about coming back out and bringing our kids another time.  Our oldest two are pretty much the same age, and our girls are freakishly similar.  Red hair, a love for everything pink and purple and girly, and a bit... on the dramatic side.

Justin found out there was a sponsered "Family Day" during the July drill weekend, so we did our best to make it happen then.  A last minute work trip changed up our trip a bit, we left a day later and came home a day and half earlier (no Rockies game) but we did end up staying with Taft and Lesha's family for the time that we were there.

It was a great weekend.  The kids loved it.  Hyrum and Lincoln played great together, whether it was video games, lego's or jumping on their two trampolines in the backyard.  They attempted to sleep out on the tramp one of the nights... but the dad's weren't there, and after about 6 minutes it was too scary for the 6 year olds, so they came in and camped out in the living room.  Kate and Harper played how every 4 year old girl does.  Best Friends one minute, and mortal enemies the next.  Luckily for all of us, the friend time lasted much longer than the enemy time, and actually as the weekend went on they did better and better together.  Our babies are further apart, theirs in nearly a year and with Milo being almost three, we just tried to keep her out of his way most of the time.  Somehow the adults even managed to hang out a bit as well, in between day trips, lunches, and refereeing arguments.  We had dinner and a walk downtown, locked our keys in the van, Taft made a dutch oven dinner and we roasted marshmallows in their backyard.  Our kids played hard and sometimes slept hard the entire time we were there.

Saturday we went to the family day on base.  They had games, lunch, face painting, sunscreen and a few patches of shade.  I guess they hadn't done anything like this at the base for years, so we both thought they did a pretty good job of it.

Sunday.... was a long drive home.  We're not really fans of the road trip.  We were hoping on leaving the base a bit early (3:30) and instead, he got released later than usual.  So... we rolled in our garage around 1:30 that morning.  The kids and I have had a pretty lazy day, packing boxes, watching movies, doing laundry and packing boxes.  We've got another 2 days, and then we're heading to Alpine, WY for our first trip to Mimi and Papa's cabin!! (And then more packing).