Natural History Museum

Henry left for High Point, N.C. early saturday morning, so he decided to take Wednesday off and spent the day with Kyle and I. We decided to use our new museum membership and see the Dinosaur exhibit. Kyle had a blast! He kept running around making dinosaur noises and pointing out the dinosaurs. The museum is about an hour away, so it is a long car ride there. Kyle lasted only about a half hour before he wanted to "go sleepy time", his way of saying he wants to take a nap. Hopefully he get used to the ride and little by little he will last longer. It was fun none the less. Afterward we went to lunch at Mimi's Cafe.

Kyle and I took Henry to the airport Saturday morning and then we went our doctors office to get our flu shots. They have a "flu clinic" 2 weekends in the fall. If you go then, they are free. Kyle got the flu mist and I got the flu shot. Kyle woke up this evening just sobbing! He had a low grade fever, so I gave him some apple juice and tylenol and he went back to sleep. Hopefully he will feel better tomorrow.

Hot Chocolate Milk

Here it is the middle of October and we finally got our first cold snap. It hasn't snowed yet, but we have dipped into the 20's at night the past few night. Kyle has to have chocolate milk in the morning so I made him hot chocolate milk (actually it is barely warm) with whipped cream. He loves it! He calls the whipped cream "ice cream". Now he wakes up and asks for "hot chocolate milk, pweeeeze!"

Estes Park

This weekend we went to Estes Park with my family. Every October we rent a cabin and invite everyone up for a weekend. We always have a good time and this weekend was no exception. Henry, Kyle and I went up on Thursday to enjoy some family time together. We went to dinner at the Dunraven Inn. It was awesome! If you ever get to Estes Park you have to eat there! After we went back to the cabin and watch the Utes play Oregon State. It was a great game and the Utes won.

On Friday, everyone else came up including Brian. We were all so glad to see Brian again. We just hang out and play games. We celebrated Mary's birthday with cake and presents.

On Saturday the 5 aduly children went on a ghost tour of the Stanley hotel. For those of you who don't know, The Stanley is where Steven King got his inspiration for his book "The Shinning." The original movie was not filmed there but the mini series was filled there, and it is more like the book. It is also one of the most haunted locations in the US. If you watch Sci-Fi channel, the Ghost Hunters go there often and it is their favorite location to investigate. Infact, they were just there last weekend filming and they will be back for their live Halloween show. We saw no ghosts and nothing happened on the tour, but we learned a lot about the hotel and it's history.

Of course, we go up there because of the elk. Some say Garder, MT is the elk capital of the world but Estes Park, CO has more elk. Usually the golf course is covered with 200+ elk. The past few years it has been so warm they haven't come down into the valley yet. We still found a few elk and heard a few bugle too.

We are always sad to leave Estes Park and get back to reality. But we always count down the days 'til we can get back up there!

The family playing Uno Attack

Kristen, Ashlee, and Kyle eating suckers

from The Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory