Colorado/Florida Trip Summer 2010

Ok, so I realized even by splitting up the last two posts, they BOTH will still turn out super long, you can add in boring if you'd like, and unorganized.

So after all the fun and festivities in Utah were done we headed out to Colorado. About an 8 hr drive. With Nicholas driving 7.5 hrs.

We actually made really good timing with all our trips. From Oklahoma to Colorado it is about 10 hrs. so the drives aren't that bad, and with an extremely well behaved baby, they are even better!

Once we got to Colorado we had a day to relax (shopping is what I consider relaxing :) I got some really cute shorts at the outlets for our trip) and then the next day we flew to Florida!

The flight wasn't bad at all, except for we were delayed a bit and sat on the runway for what felt like... FOREVER. Before flying,  I really wouldn't have cared that much, but with a baby on board... I want to get in the air and out as soon as possible!

We went to DISNEY WORLD in Florida! It was so much fun. That's where we went for our honeymoon and it was a lot of fun to go back and remember the things we did. :)

Here comes another picture overload, be prepared! :) enjoy:

 First day going to the parks.. Hollywood Studios

There was a lot of waiting in line..

Which Nick loved to do...

Katelyn trying out Aunt Julie's shades

The car show, it was awesome

The Tower of Terror! One of my favorite rides

Magic Kingdom!

Second day was Magic Kingdom

The night parade

Having fun :)

Finding Nemo! 3rd day at Epcot

Going on a ride with Grandpa :)

FINALLY ON! We waited for this ride for a long time. We got right up to the loading zone and they shut it down because there was rain and lightening, but we waited there and didn't want to turn back because we were so close. It was worth it :)

Epcot!

The Eiffel Tower! (way in the back) I love Epcot, they have all the countries in this park that you can go visit.

If there is one firework show you can watch while at Disney World, watch it at Epcot. It's awesome!

The flying dinosaur ride! :)

Last day. Animal Kingdom. The safari ride!

Back home to Colorado and Nick was back to work.

Yup.. with the help of his dad and brother they built this patio out back!

Saying our goodbyes..Again another sad day.

Katelyn sure loved all the attention from family members.

On the road, pulled over for a quick diaper change! 

The driver of all four driving trips to Colorado, to Utah, back to Colorado, and back home to Oklahoma. Nicholas :)

And now we're home. Enjoying the rest of our summer. :) Getting ready for Nicholas to start school again. It was a really great summer and we really appreciate all our families did for us! We love you guys!

Utah Trip Summer 2010

I'm making two posts because I'm afraid if I attempt to write one post about both our trips to Colorado/Florida and Utah it might just end up extremely long, huge, boring, and unorganized. :)

So, here goes the first one. All about our trip to Utah. I'll start out telling you what happened from the day we left Oklahoma.

We decided we wanted to drive to Colorado and then to Utah; that way we could have more things for Katelyn (and myself I suppose) because we'd be gone for so long. We drove to Colorado and we planned on Nick staying there to work for his dad for a week and Katelyn and I flew out to Utah to help my sister with last minute wedding plans... or that could have just been an excuse for me to be in Utah longer. :)

After a few days Nick drove to Utah and met up with us.

We went swimming and played a lot of Wii with my little brother. Then we all (Me, Nick, Katelyn, my parents, older brother, and little brother) drove to BEAR LAKE! :) I haven't been to that place in forever, it was so fun to go back. And after a few days my other brother and sister were able to drive up and join us. It was a lot of fun!



Now is where the picture overload will begin. We did so many fun things the pictures will tell it all.

 Nick taking Katelyn to the pool :)

 Swimming! I love swimming

Katelyn hanging out with Grandma at the pool. :)

The condo. Playing the broom dance game.

Katelyn was laughing at everyone.. and I'm not kidding she thought it was hilarious.

AJ was trying to watch the soccer game and figure out the broom dance...not gonna work ;)

The Caves! Looks like poor Katelyn's hat fell down for the picture

Pretty neat! My first cave I've been in

The cave was FREEZING! We had to wrap Katelyn in a towel.

I don't have good balance so I held up the line a bit walking down the wet, dark, slippery stairs.. kind of scary if you ask me

There was no food or drink allowed in the caves, but Katelyn needed to eat so we had to hide her bottle

This was probably my favorite part.. bike riding! OK, well minus the jet skiing. :) 

Me and the little guy.

Letting my Dad and AJ get a turn on the 3 man bike 

I just thought this pic was funny. Isaac all relaxed in the middle with the boys on the outside pedaling hard. haha. It took quite a bit to get that bike going with 3 people on it!

So about half way through our bike ride there was a HORRIBLE storm. It almost blew the 3 man bike over and there was wind and rain and dust blowing every where. We didn't think we'd make it, but obviously we did :) It was actually really fun riding back to the shop trying to out run the storm. Here are the boys after the storm haha.

 Playing croquet!!

I was so behind that everyone was trying to help me.. i ended up getting second though, i loved it!

My silly brother making me pose for a picture :) haha just kidding, I think I was actually the one who mentioned this pose..

Katelyn hanging out at the lake

 Bear Lake!!

This is definitely the funniest picture of the trip. AJ trying to pull nate up on the jet ski. What would have been funnier is the one of nate falling sideways off the jet ski.

Waiting for a turn to go out

Me and Age :)

My sista :)

The little guy

Grandma and Katelyn at the lake! Thanks for watching her mom! :)

And last, the beautiful view from the condo.

Ok, so that's quite a few pictures from the bear lake trip, but there's much more! Including, fourth of July weekend, my sister's WEDDING! and then there's a whole separate post about our trip to Colorado and Disney World.. whew, this might take me awhile :)

Ok so real quick. On July 7th 2010 my older sister and only sister got married! It was a beautiful day and I'm glad we could be there.

The fam

My two most favorite people. I'm such a lucky girl :)

My sister, she looked beautiful!!

FOURTH OF JULY

During the fourth we had a nice little barbeque, did a little swimming, had some fireworks, watched fireworks, ate ice cream, went to the parade, and hung out with my favorite cousin. :)

Me and the babe

Lighting small fireworks

Me and Katelyn at the Parade. Right after our traditional family outing to IHOP. mmm i love that place!

All three of us :)

Me and my cousin Lisette!

Yay, fireworks. I love fireworks :)

Saying our goodbyes :( Sad day.

Got our shades on, ready to hit the road again! 

But wait! My sister showed up one last time to say goodbye :) The newlywed couple :)

And we safely made it to Colorado :)

Next post will come... hopefully shortly. This was the first half of our summer trips. The next half is Colorado and Florida! :)