Weekend Recap

So the trip to Estes Park is done for this year. And the surprise early birthday event was a success, Mom was totally floored. Which made all the various headaches of getting there and coping with tiredness from Emily's grouchiness worth it.

Here's how it all broke down. Saturday was fine, very relaxed day, James had it a little rough, his baseball game was frustrating becuase while he played at 1st base none of the kids threw him the ball, then no parents provided a snack then when we got lunch there was no toy in his kids meal. But otherwise it was a relaxed day, I got things basically ready to go. And we had everything more or less ready when Emily woke up in the night screaming. And pretty much screamed all night, we can only assume it was a dreadful combindation of teething, a cold and an ear infection, so Kim & I received very little rest.

Fortunately she did get some rest onthe drive to Estes Park so she was in a decent mood once we got there, although she had her bad moments. But a little more rest, lots of TLC and some tylenol, and she was basically in a decent mood Sunday evening and back to her normal self on Monday.

So the reason we did this trip was this year Mom turns 70, and her siblings all could come to Estes Park with their families but not make it to Colorado SPrings in August for her actual birthday. See the Rogers family has had yearly reunions in Estes Park for 30+ years now every summer so it was a good excuse to arrange the trip. We had nearly the whole group, save 1 cousin and her family. But all told we had 40 people there. I took a lot of pictures and should get them uploaded to the web tonight.

It was a good time, James & Daniel especially had a great time, just running around cosntantly playing with all o these other little kids. James really did not want to leave, he wanted to stay and play some more. I enjoyed some visting time with some cosuins I never see any more, seeing their kids, and generally chatting a lot and taking lots of pictures. I am looking forard to reviewing them and then seeing the ones taken by the other folks when they get them uploaded on Facebook. Should be fun.