Easter Weekend

On Saturday, we headed to Steamboat Springs to spend Easter weekend. The Baughmans had use of a place with four bedrooms and invited us up. We stayed at One Steamboat Place, a brand new place right at the base of the mountain. Our place was amazing. The mountain was closed for skiing, but we didn't mind just having a quiet weekend and hanging out. The Baughman's have 3 girls age 6, 4, and 2 and they are so sweet and got along great with Avery and Ryan.

Playing in the little tykes room with Gillian (every hotel should have one of these)

Easter Egg Hunt time

Found one!

Taking a quick break to check out a book

Maggie and Audrey

Every enjoying a M&M

Double checking to make sure no M&Ms were missed

Pool time (we were going to check out the Hot Springs, but it was rainy pretty hard, so opted for the pool instead for a quick dip)

Dinner time!

Time for cupcakes. Avery ate all the stars first!

The kids playing nicely together

Avery reading her book to Maggie. Avery and Ryan were both obsessed with Maggie and just kept saying "Hi Maggie!" It was so cute!

Love this picture of Ryan staring at Maggie

Day Off

I had Good Friday off as one of our floating holidays, so took the kids to the Children's Museum and then headed to visit daddy at his office and go to lunch. We had a fun day before heading home for naps.


Avery and Ryan working the front desk at the Vet
Avery working the fire hose
Avery and Daddy at Mellow Mushroom

Ryan and Mommy (a bit blurry)

Aquarium

We headed back to Denver on Tuesday morning and decided to check out the aquarium. Ryan didn't enjoy the fish as much as Avery, he really just wanted to see the tiger!! Luckily, the tiger was out and they loved it! We had lunch at the aquarium before we had to say bye to Andy's parents.

It's amazing what four months can do as during this visit with their grandparents Avery & Ryan now were very excited and comfortable with their grandparents - no more tears (which meant we could get some more time to ourselves!). Though Avery struggled with the distinction between Grandma and Grandpa as she called Andy's dad Grandma the entire time. Overall, we had a great visit and look forward to seeing them again in June.


Avery checking out the big turtle and fish

Ryan and Avery climbing up to get a better view of the fish

Ryan enjoying the view by our table

Sledding

We never made it sledding in Denver this past winter since we didn't get much snow this year, so we brought the gear up to Breck. Avery and Ryan got their coats, pants, hats, and gloves on with no complaints and off we went. They were a little hesitant when we got to the snow, but then enjoyed their time on the sled. It was so cute to see them all bundled up. Can't wait until we can get them on skis!



Happy Avery!


Ryan and Grandpa

Sledding time on Peak 8

Avery decided that she wanted to pull Ryan

Daddy and Avery taking Ryan sledding Grandpa and Ryan walking down Main Street

Tuesday night we had a Seder - it was a modern Seder as we ran it with Haggadah app for the iPad!

Avery and Ryan talking on their phones

Vail

Monday, we headed over to Vail to walk around and have lunch. We brought the stroller, which hasn't been used in some time, but came in handy!

Grandpa, Grandma, Avery, and Ryan




Grandpa and Ryan taking the stairs

Checking out the statue

Grandpa, Andy, Avery, and Ryan

Checking out the slopes

Breckenridge

Saturday we all went to gym class and came back to pack up the cars and headed up to Breckenridge for three nights. We stayed at the Hyatt Main Street Station and had a great place. Andy hit the slopes and the rest of us checked out the Children's Museum. The kids had a great time!




Enjoying breakfast Sunday morning



Exploring

Avery enjoyed "flying" the helicopter

Ryan checking out all the animal figures

Avery's art

Ryan working on his paint project

Avery playing with the fake snow

Mommy and Ryan

Heading out to dinner

So cute!