Surprise Trip to CO

Zach and I spent Monday through Friday of last week with my parents and Garrett in Colorado. My mom had knee surgery two Fridays ago (1/23) and at about 5:00 p.m. that evening Derrick and I were booking my flight to Denver. For fun we decided to make it a surprise for my mom (also because she'd probably try to get things ready for us and defeat the purpose of us coming).

After a hectic run through the SLC airport at about 6:30 a.m. while holding two bags and a car seat with a 20 pound baby, Zach and I made our flight. Luckily for me the flight was pretty empty so Zach got his own seat. He slept most of the time :).


My dad picked us up from the airport and the look on my mom's face when we just walked into her room was priceless. She hadn't heard the garage door open so she didn't even know anyone was home. Her mouth dropped and she just stared at us for a little while. Apparently her first thought was that her pain meds were making her hallucinate :).

Zach and I had fun playing with and taking care of my mom during the day and being joined by my dad and Garrett at night.

Crazy times with Garrett

One thing that was really cute was that every time I brought Zach into my parents' room I'd have him peek around the door and watch as he'd get this huge grin on his face from seeing my mom. We had a lot of fun in Louisville but definitely missed Derrick. It did help that we "skyped" with him every night and got to talk with him on the phone.

While in Louisville:

- Zach cut his 2nd tooth (on the bottom)
- He had his first experience swimming in a swimming pool (I'll do a post of pictures from that since this one is getting long).
- We found out that he loves chewing on apples.

- Zach got to play with some toys I played with when I was little.


- I found that I really like the Narnia movie Prince Caspian - Thanks Garrett.
- Derrick (back in Utah) had a successful interview for a job internship and made it to the second round. In the next couple of weeks we'll see how that turns out.

Zach was pretty antsy on the plane ride home. I had to get creative and finally resort to holding him high so he could just stare at all the people behind us.

Zach playing on the plane at the beginning. He liked sitting sideways in his seat.

We had a great trip but were very excited to be with Derrick again.