A weekend with Christine in Estes Park

Christine, one of Christian's best friends that he's knows since his childhood, came up to visit us. We decided to take her to Estes Park, our favorite vacation spot in CO. We had so much fun! I wish I had pictures, but...from the car I watched Christian and Christine almost get attacked by a group of Elk. We walked through a crazy amount of snow without the proper attire. We ate some yummy food...and some not so yummy food. Visited a very cold and snowy bear lake. Taught Abigail how to throw snow balls at Daddy. Lynda and Bruce joined us on Christine's last day, and we went to eat at a really really good restaurant. I'll have to edit once I remember what it's called. The next morning, Christian's Uncle Arthur and Aunt Cindy came up. We ate at a pizza place that we LOVE. They use the freshest ingredients. Abigail loved playing in the arcade area with Aunt Cindy. We then went to the beautiful Historic Stanley Hotel and took a peak inside. We had to head home soon after :-(, but the drive home is so beautiful.

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Halloween

We had so much fun this Halloween. It was the first year that Abigail actually knew what she was and enjoyed what she did, haha. We have been hearing her ask "more candy peeze" non stop since. She even got the bright idea to ask for it after she went potty...every.single.time. She's such a smart kid, haha.

The day before Halloween, Lynda came down and we took them to the apartment complex party. They just got a little bag of candy and we sat around while Abigail ate some and danced to the music. There was only one other little girl there, but Abigail seemed to have a blast anyway. Gideon enjoyed crawling around and eating his candy....pretzels :-P.

On Halloween, we headed out to Old Colorado City to have lunch at our favorite Greek restaurant, Jake and Telly's. I love their food, it's the closest that I've had to my Uncle Jim's greek cooking. Though...I still prefer his over anything else I've had. Abigail got a coupon for a free kids meal, and got a hamburger....that was larger than our adult meal, haha.

After lunch, we started Trick or Treating, and Abigail had so much fun. She said "Twick tweet" and "dantdu" to everyone :-). She also tried to eat every piece given to her between each shop we visited. Gideon loooooved sitting in the front seat of the stroller watching everyone. We did find out that Abigail is terrified of the big character costumes...like the ones you would see at Disney world or Sesame Place, yikes. Actually, the only one that didn't scare her was some guy wearing an Elmo head. She kept saying, "that's Elmo!" The guy was so sweet to play along and wave at her. It made her day.

When we got home, Abigail took a LONG nap until we started getting Trick or Treaters of our own. We decided to let her go around the complex to do a little more herself. Big mistake...that's where the majority of her candy came from. Turns out, everyone loves seeing cute toddlers and gives them 2-3 handfuls. Now we have this HUGE bowl of candy sitting in our kitchen. It'll probably be full when Halloween comes around next year. We'll have to look into those dentists who buy the candy from kids next year, hehe.