Labor Day in CO + KS

So back in September, we went to Colorado for Labor Day weekend. I know this is super late, but we've been busy and traveling a ton, so I'm slowly trying to catch up on this blog. We drove out to spend the weekend with my parents and my sister Carrie's family. We had a blast and it was so fun to take Alice for her first visit (of many, I'm sure) to the condo. We went to a festival at Keystone and ended up taking the gondola up to the top of the mountain since some nice guy gave us a bunch of extra tickets. It was fun, but freezing! We were not dressed properly for that trip to the top!

Carrie's cute family:

Love these two! What great parents they are:

Cute cousins:

Had to take a pic in the adirondack chairs: 

We also went to the Taste of Vail that they do every year in Vail village. It was a blast and we ate so much!

After Colorado, we all flew back to KS (minus Andrew and David--> work and school). It was Alice's first flight and I was so grateful to have my parents and Carrie there to help me! I definitely wouldn't know what to do otherwise. We really felt the need to document this, hah:

The next week we were back home, which was so nice. Aimee flew home from Moab and joined us, and it was so fun to see her and catch up. She got a mission call to Riverside, California and was giving her mission farewell talk the next Sunday. David and Andrew flew in that weekend, and it was great having he whole family together one last time before she left. She went through the Kansas City temple for the first time, and it was great to experience that with her. Afterwards, we celebrated in typical fashion by going out to Jack Stack for BBQ. The following day she spoke in church and did an amazing job. It was such a wonderful family vacation to so neat to spend time with some of the people we love most.