Autumn & Kalina

We are in California this week.  Yesterday we visited Mommy’s friend Mary Beth and got to play with her daughter.  Then we went to Diane’s house and had Diane’s special spaghetti.  It was soooo yummy!  After we played with Howard, got special dresses from Pony, and at yellow cake with chocolate frosting!  See our dresses-we were working hard to make them fly up when we spun around.

Before we had dinner we did some coloring with Pony.

Dresses!

This is the bridge we crossed to get to Happy Hollow.

Smiles from both of us!  We were waiting for Cyndie to get to the park.

Our first ride was the merry go round.  I rode with Cyndie on the giraffe.  Autumn rode the polar bear-she named him Grizzly.

Then we went down to the zoo area to see some animals.  Look at this funny guy!

After the animals we went to the ride area.  We went on a roller coaster!  It was my favorite ride, but Cyndie didn’t like it.  Then we rode the firetrucks.

Next came the ladybug ride.  We shared the same ladybug so I rode facing the front and Autumn went backwards!

Autumn’s favorite ride was the swings.

We also rode on Danny the Dragon.

The last area we saw was the petting area.  We got to pet, brush, and feed some goats.

After that we got to see the miniature horses.  We even got to feed them!

Ride em cowgirls!

After all that playing we stopped for some lunch, and then we had our last ride of the day.  The merry go round one more time.  This time we both rode zebras!

Before we left we got to choose a treat from the store.  Cyndie bought me a magnetic pony toy and Autumn chose a “magic”wand.  We slept with them last night!

Dad took us out to the club today for some golf practice.  We played the 9 hole par 3.  Someday we’ll be able to hit as far as Dad, but today we just practiced.

Look at Autumn’s form!  Nice job Autumn!

My turn!

Time to putt.

Autumn, hit your ball.  Don’t forget to get mine out of the hole too.

Can you see the flag over there?  That’s where I want it to land.

Daddy is helping Autumn a little.

See my hands?  That’s how you are supposed to hold it.

Nice big swing Autumn.  You are definitely like Daddy-put your tongue in your mouth!

On the green you need your putter.  By now, Autumn’s putter was her hands, feet, and club!

Ready, aim, hit!

Sometimes the best way to get your ball on the green is to pick it up and PUT it there.

Daddy, what are you doing down there in the sand?  The green is up here!

“I did  it Mommy!”

We have 2 clubs each.  Autumn added a 3rd to her “bag”.

Soooo close.

Look, we had some visitors while we were playing.

We’re done-walking up the last hole was tough.  We needed to help each other.

Let’s go to the clubhouse and get something to eat and drink!

Yesterday we got very early and headed up to the mountains.  Our first stop was Glenwood Springs.  It was the strawberry festival this weekend.  We got there before the parade started so we played on the playground for a little bit.  Then we found a tatoo guy so we both got unicorns.  I got 2 because the man made a mistake on my first one.

Here’s Autumn’s.

Autumn can have a little attitude sometimes.

These are mine.

When we were watching the parade a nice man gave us each a flag.  (Actually he gave Autumn one, so Dad and I went walking to get one from him while mom took these pictures)

Got one!

We saw fire engines, police cars, the Army band, strawberry princesses, and lots of kids.  After awhile we decided to go look at the shops.

We saw these halo’s and Dad said we could have one.  I chose the rainbow one.  Autumn chose the blue one, and when the lady asked if she wanted blue and white or blue and orange, she chose orange.  Mom says we have to work on teaching Autumn the right colors to choose.  (Red and Gold)

A picture with Grandma and Grandpa

After the shops we headed over to see if the train was working yet.  It was!  I wanted the pink one and Autumn wanted the blue one.

Even though it was the strawberry festival, there weren’t very many strawberry things.  Before we left we found a strawberry booth though.  First we had strawberry kabobs with some chocolate and sprinkles.

Then I was still hungry so I had a strawberry shortcake.  Now that’s a yummy treat!

While I was in the potty Grandma gave Autumn a lifesaver.  She’s never had one and had to check it out.

Once she finally put it in her mouth she liked it until she chewed it up.  Then she spit it out because she didn’t like all the little pieces in her mouth.

After Glenwood Springs we decided to drive up to Aspen.  Grandma and Grandpa hadn’t been there and rather than ride the little tram in Glenwood Springs we were going to ride the gondola in Aspen.  First we went to  a park to play. I’m working on being brave and trying new things.

We went exploring near a stream.  Grandpa threw big rocks and splashed us and we threw little rocks.  Under one we found a worm.  Grandpa put it in the stream to see if it could swim.  Autumn poked it with a stick.  I didn’t want to touch it-Yuck!

We had lunch at Boogie’s (not boogers), then we headed up the mountain.  Did you know that at the top of the gondola ride you are 11,212ft high?!  Once on the way up it stopped and we were REALLY high off the ground.  On the way down it stopped and was blowing in wind.  SCARY!!!  The whole thing made Daddy seasick.

On the way up Autumn was giving love to everyone.  If you know Autumn-that doesn’t happen very often!

These are some of the view from the top.

There were also gigantic hula hoops (AKA hoo hoo hoops) to play with.

Hopping through the hoops

We headed back down and to the car.  We had a long drive home and it was a busy day!