{"id":401,"date":"2009-07-23T21:43:18","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T04:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/?p=401"},"modified":"2009-07-23T21:45:43","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T04:45:43","slug":"denver-part-the-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/denver-part-the-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver: Part the First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went to Denver over the 4th of July weekend to visit Alex&#8217;s sister and her family!\u00c2\u00a0 We had an awesome time!\u00c2\u00a0 So awesome that we have like 100 pictures!! It was too hard to narrow down the pictures into one post so I&#8217;m going to do a few of them!! They had a lot of fun activities for us to do and seeing as we are small town people now we were excited to see all Denver had to offer!! Here are some pictures from our first few days there!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_O6y5XWIO4Vc\/SmiAEII7RDI\/AAAAAAAACOQ\/QT-t7aYgBfY\/s400\/img_4242.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here are all the kids playing with the fun marble toy Grandma Kath sent to the boys!\u00c2\u00a0 I think the big kid in the back had the most fun!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_O6y5XWIO4Vc\/SmiAEQ4jl4I\/AAAAAAAACOU\/O7b943RTOT8\/s400\/img_4243.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here is another picture with everyone smiling!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_O6y5XWIO4Vc\/SmiAFvoq7XI\/AAAAAAAACOg\/llbdjyL6Adk\/s400\/IMG_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The next day we went to a splash ground at one of the outdoor malls near Beth and Nathan&#8217;s house.\u00c2\u00a0 Emmy was a little nervous at first but she got the hang of it when she saw her cousins running through it!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_O6y5XWIO4Vc\/SmiAGAEALNI\/AAAAAAAACOk\/hoX4tfPaCNw\/s400\/IMG_1206.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All the kids decided it would be much more fun if the daddies came in too!\u00c2\u00a0 So Alex and Nathan ran through clothes and all!\u00c2\u00a0 They were pretty well soaked!\u00c2\u00a0 A little boy tripped close to Alex and dropped his toy.\u00c2\u00a0 Alex bent over to pick it up for him and didn&#8217;t realize his face was right over one of the holes and the water shot him in the face!\u00c2\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t see it but Nathan said it was pretty funny!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_O6y5XWIO4Vc\/SmiAGax9CtI\/AAAAAAAACOo\/C6yz47GmfLQ\/s400\/IMG_1211.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is Kaylee laughing at daddy getting wet!\u00c2\u00a0 She had a lot of fun watching all the kids running around the mall!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_O6y5XWIO4Vc\/Smk3GXS402I\/AAAAAAAACRk\/R-ndz7cxk5o\/s400\/IMG_1262.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After the splash ground we went to eat at Paradise Bakery (SO YUMMY!) in a different part of the mall.\u00c2\u00a0 These cute umbrellas were right outside the restaurant so we let the kids run around under them too since they were still in their swimsuits!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_O6y5XWIO4Vc\/SmiAGw52kBI\/AAAAAAAACOs\/iBOw07inbOw\/s400\/IMG_1258.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We couldn&#8217;t convince Emmy to go in at first so then we started throwing her headband in and she would go get it for us!\u00c2\u00a0 She thought it was hilarious!\u00c2\u00a0 Then she started playing it with Logan and Josh.\u00c2\u00a0 Then Alex started throwing his shoes in!\u00c2\u00a0 Then he and Nathan played horseshoes using their shoes and the bottom of the umbrella statues.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_O6y5XWIO4Vc\/SmiAHX5zCxI\/AAAAAAAACOw\/NUqZZTkgut4\/s400\/IMG_1260.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Logan, Josh and Emmy were very dilligent about retrieving the &#8220;horseshoes&#8221; for their dads!\u00c2\u00a0 Here they are &#8220;discussing&#8221; who will take the headband to Alex!\u00c2\u00a0 :-)\u00c2\u00a0 What cuties!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_O6y5XWIO4Vc\/SmiAJtz3WlI\/AAAAAAAACPI\/KWkFcMEZp7k\/s400\/IMG_1299.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It seems like I usually have a picture of us playing Wii whenever Beth and Nathan visit! So&#8230;here we are playing Wii!! Logan really liked playing boom blox and he is pretty good too!\u00c2\u00a0 It was nice to relax in their awesome basement when it was really hot outside!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_O6y5XWIO4Vc\/SmiAPAuHFSI\/AAAAAAAACP8\/USnXf837bMg\/s400\/img_4320.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is Kaylee getting into mischief while we were playing Wii!\u00c2\u00a0 She had lots of fun playing with all her cousins toys!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_O6y5XWIO4Vc\/SmiARzNon4I\/AAAAAAAACQY\/V-S0MelZTTM\/s400\/IMG_1389.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And finally a new little skill that she picked up while in Denver!\u00c2\u00a0 You can&#8217;t tell in this picture but she is about 3 or 4 stairs up already!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_O6y5XWIO4Vc\/SmiASGlJpdI\/AAAAAAAACQc\/jiRrUMpY-AI\/s400\/IMG_1390.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And finally here is a picture of her &#8220;look what I can do&#8221; face!\u00c2\u00a0 I get to see this face a lot becuase she is always getting into something!\u00c2\u00a0 She is going to be walking in no time!\u00c2\u00a0 She is growing up so fast&#8230;(motherly sigh)&#8230;what happened to my little baby!<\/p>\n<p>Okay!\u00c2\u00a0 Stay tuned for the next installments of our trip to Denver which include: 4th of July, a Rockies game, and more crazy fun with cousins!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to Denver over the 4th of July weekend to visit Alex&#8217;s sister and her family!\u00c2\u00a0 We had an awesome time!\u00c2\u00a0 So awesome that we have like 100 pictures!! It was too hard to narrow down the pictures into one post so I&#8217;m going to do a few of them!! They had a lot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/denver-part-the-first\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Denver: Part the First<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emmy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}