Grandma & Grandpa Brooks Visit!

So, I've fallen a little behind, but hope to add a few updates this week...

Grandma & Grandpa Brooks came to visit in May and we all had a wonderful and busy time!!

The weekend included a trip to the Denver Botanic Gardens which was beautiful and a bit windy and chilly.   Georgia's fleece hat blew off and sank to the bottom of the fish pond.  Luckily, a nice man found a large stick to scoop it out.  The kids thought that was pretty fun and have been talking about it since.  

We met Brooke and Gary and their 3 kids at BoonDocks one evening for fun with go-carts, miniature golf, laser-tag, etc (and yes, that's Georgia on hole 18 throwing a fit since the course took her ball away, even other on-lookers took pictures)!!  Grandma & Grandpa took the kids to the zoo where the highlights included the elephants and feeding the baby geese Cheerios!  We also had time for a picnic at the new 'Central Park' here in the neighborhood, which is only similar to the one in NYC in name, but does have a huge and funky playground for the kids, playing fields, a boat pond, fountain, and pavilion for concerts.  We had a great time singing Happy Birthday to celebrate Grandpa's 70th, had a Mother's Day brunch made by Ev, and were able to get a lot of gardening done (& thank you, thank you, thank you for helping with the kids so we could dig a million holes!)!  Thanks for coming to visit, we all had a great time!!  Some pictures taken by Grandpa with his new camera follow....sorry I haven't figured out the collage thing yet on this blog, maybe Karen can fill me in (are you using Picasa to do that?).  Hope all is well with everyone!!  Miss you.  Shannon