Post Christmas-New Years in Denver

The day after Christmas we jumped in the car and headed out to Denver to spend post Christmas-New Year's with the all the Brinks! This had been planned for a couple of years and we were excited to all be together!

The drive over was uneventful with clear roads and since we packed a lunch we made it in less then 8 hours! It was fun to arrive and see everyone and to find out that TJ's sister Alison and her hubby Phil are expecting their first baby! YAY!!!!!

Here's a rundown of the week!

On Natalie's birthday we went bowling! It was so much fun to see the little kids be so excited when the pins fell down and to see the bigger kids enjoy some friendly competition. Our nephew Daniel was particularly hilarious as he'd never been bowling before! He would scream, jump, clap his hands and giggle with excitement every time a pin would fall down.

Brady and his buddy, Uncle Matt! Brady loves Uncle Matt and told me that they are good buddies! Brady also told us that a good name for a bowling alley would be "Balls verses Pins". I thought that he was right!

Taylor looking so impressed!

LouLou and Reecey! I could not get Reecey to look at the camera...silly girl!

Me and Teej, looking spazzy as usual!

Uncle and Nephew...Josh and Jack

After bowling the kids went to the park. It was sooooooooooo nice in Denver I forgot it was even December!

As you can see Reece wore herself right out!

That night we had dinner at Red Robin...of course we did!

Natalie with her birthday sundae! YUM!

Then we went back to LouLou's and Papa's for presents and cake!

While we were in Denver it FINALLY turned to Winter. We got a hit with a big snowstorm. Apparently it was the first time this winter that it snowed in the city and the local news station was calling it 'LAST BLAST 2010'. Answer me this...why does every big snow event have to have a name. Pretty silly if you ask me! Anyways, it started snowing in the middle of the day so we sent the kids outside to play. Daniel had seen snow but had never seen snow fall so he was especially delighted....and, of course, hilarious!

As we were sitting in the family room watching the snow fall, Lindsay told Jackson she wanted him to go roll around in it without a shirt. He was reluctant until offers of money started coming! In all he earned $6.05 for rolling around in the snow, shirtless!

Josh also rolled in the snow but I was videoing him, not taking any still shots!

This is just a random picture of Miss Savannah. She always pulls one leg out of her leg hole in her jammies. Silly girl!!!!

Another random picture of Josh dressed up like a nerd. As Lindsay said, this came way too natural for him!

Cute, silly girls. Do we like that my 3 year old is drinking Dr. Pepper?

So onto New Years Eve! I LOVE just hanging out on New Years Eve, eating good food, hanging with my kids, watching Dick Clark's Rockin' New Years Eve, playing games and watching our traditional episode of 'Friends.' This year was super fun because we taught the older kids how to play our favorite card game, Nertz. For those who don't know what Nertz is, I describe it as a cross between Solitaire and Speed! Its way fun, super intense, and a bit complicated but the kids picked up on it pretty quickly and had a great time playing!!!

Cute Madison tried soooooooooooooo hard to make it until midnight, but just couldn't keep her eyes open!

As always we had a GREAT time in Denver and as always the time went much too fast! Now here we are back into real life...school, work, homework, carpools, sports, etc. But I guess if we just partied all the time, we wouldn't have much to look forward to, huh?

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!