Back from Colorado

The trip home lasted only 7 hours--without any airline delays--a Christmas miracle! The twins were so happy to be with Daddy again; they took turns playing on his lap during the flights.

A recap of some of our CO vacation (also, next blog post will show pics of Tiny Town!):
Daddy and Grammy at Parker's July 4th fest, where we stood in line for balloon animals--on request for Chance: a motorcycle, and for Gracie: a kitty.
Grammy and Chance inspect the groovy motorcycle balloon.

Daddy and Chance played "go fish" at the 4th of July festival. That night, the twins went to bed by 8:30 pm, and the rest of the family watched the Parker fireworks from the living room and/or driveway of Grammy's house--a perfect view (and we were glad the twins were asleep since we weren't sure if the noise would scare them)! Chance donned Aunt Gill's sunglasses.

Chance had a blast with his Aunt Gill. When she'd come home from work, he'd "run" across the front yard to greet her with a big hug.

Chance and Grace played with a new puzzle that Great Aunt Haze bought for them when we met her at the Cherry Creek mall.

Aunt Haze trustingly gives Chance her cell phone as we all played in the kids' area at the mall. Chance is sitting on the waffle with butter, by the way. And neither of the twins wanted to return her cell phone to her (of course!). Isn't Haze so fun to get down on the floor and play with us?! :)

Grace and Aunt Haze considered crawling under the slice of bacon--or rather, Haze coaxed Gracie underneath. :)

Gracie kisses a statue of a mouse outside of the Wildlife Experience in Parker.

We tried on the top portion of the animal costumes at the Wildlife Experience (L to R: Chance, Mommy, Grammy Sharon, Gracie, and Uncle Sam).