colorado and camp quality - our latest adventures...

it has been a busy few weeks!  (what's new?) all good stuff though...most recently a trip to colorado for great uncle dick and aunt nancy's 50th wedding anniversary. it went quite well considering i was a one-year-old on a very long car trip. we stayed in a really cool hotel in golden, co right by clear creek.  there were people floating down the creek in their kayaks and lounging lazily on innertubes.  2 weddings happened while we were there!  mom decided she wants to come back and bring daddy someday.  thankfully, we had a very safe trip with no tire blowouts or anything, however i provided several blowouts of a different nature--one in particular at the hotel was almost more stink than papa could handle--ha! he and grammi took such good care of me and helped mom a bunch!  (as usual)

we saw most of the cohorst family, cousins rick, mike, and tami and their kids, and other family friends who came to celebrate. we made some great memories together--one cool thing that happened is that mom, papa, and grammi discovered i can point to my eyes, ears, mouth, head, nose, hair, hands and feet!  apparently, miss peggy has been working with me on those things.  they had no idea how much i can understand! probably mom's favorite memory from the trip was this trucker named Joe who befriended us and was DETERMINED to contribute to my future college fund.  It reminded her of that verse:

"Do not be afraid to entertain strangers, for in doing so, many have entertained angels unawares..."

we won't forget joe and we pray for him whenever he comes to mind...

Last night, mom had over 50 people over for the annual camp quality barbeque!  I had fun socializing as usual (although I've been going through a bit of a momma's girl stage recently...it just takes me awhile to warm up to strangers...) I met my new friend Jackson (Jack-Jack) Bailey. i had my first boy baby kiss right on the lips. mom hopes to add that pic here soon. it was SO cute!  this morning, grandma and grandpa d came over to babysit while mom did a little work...thank God for helpful gmas and gpas!!!!