Colorado Visit

My oldest sister, Taunya, and her husband, Rick, have lived in Fort Collins, Colorado since I was about six years old. They have five children: Megan (got married last year and just moved across the country to attend graduate school at the University of Maryland), Zac (attending the University of Colorado at Boulder), Ben (a senior in high school), Lauren (just started junior high), and Taylor (just started 5th grade). Last year they finished building a beautiful house in a small town right by Fort Collins called Windsor. Since we haven't seen them since Christmas and we wanted to see their new house (and, let's face it, they really just wanted to see Isabelle), we flew in for a little visit 8/31 - 9/4.

We arrived on Friday afternoon and Taunya picked us up at the airport. Then, Danny went and played golf with Rick and Izzie and I went with Taunya and Lauren to pick Taylor up from soccer practice and then we hung out at the house. Later that night, Zac came home from college to spend the weekend with us and Danny and I watched a movie with Taunya and Rick.

On Saturday, we went to one of Lauren's soccer games, went shopping at a really nice outdoor shopping center near their house, visited Ben at work at Hollister in the Fort Collins mall, and went to dinner at a really delicious Mexican restaurant in downtown Fort Collins.

On Sunday, Danny went fly-fishing early in the morning (amazing he could get up since Izzie thought it would be fun to be awake from 1:00 am to 3:00 am that morning). Then, we went to another soccer game for Lauren, and then went up the canyon for a picnic at the cutest little park.

On Monday, Danny went fly-fishing again in the morning and me and Izzie went for a walk on this really pretty trail with Taunya, Lauren, and Taylor. Then, we went to lunch and went swimming with Taunya, Rick, Lauren, and Taylor. Taunya made a really delicious dinner for us later that night and then we went to Cold Stone to visit Ben at work and he hooked us up with some delicious ice cream at 50% off!

On Tuesday morning we went to brunch with Taunya and then she drove us to the airport. Izzie slept from 7:30 pm to 7:30 am that night (a record for her), so maybe we should take her on trips more often!

Anyway, we had a fun time - Thanks for the great visit Roelings!