Addy-licious Weekend

This cracks me up every time we pass through Denver's airport. The restrooms are tornado shelters. (You should have seen the looks I got while taking this photo. Heh. If they were bloggers, they'd understand.)

Thanks to Frontier's last minute gotta-fill-them-seats fare, we spent the weekend in Colorado. For some reason, fewer people are going to Denver these days. Maybe it's the 2+ feet of snow on the ground? Or the memory of all those people stranded in the airport during the last storm? Whatever the reason, it worked to our advantage. We flew from LAX Saturday night and returned tonight. Almost two whole days with Addy!

It's amazing how much she's grown in the past two months. She's close to 10 pounds now and really loooooonnng. She's still very good natured, fussing only when it's time to eat or when her diaper needs changing. Otherwise, she's sleeping, smiling, or checking out her world.

Mom & Dad decided to take advantage of our visit and had their first dinner date since Addy's arrival. We tried (really, really hard) to get them to go to a movie, or shopping, or ANYWHERE - anything to give us more time with Addy. But Rachel could barely stand to be away from her for the hour and a half they were gone.

Getting to their house was interesting, at least to us Californians. Although the main streets in Loveland have been plowed, residential streets are still under several feet of snow. Rachel warned us that we'd be playing 'bumper cars' to get into her driveway. It wasn't quite that bad; she has the banked slide into her garage down to an art. Unfortunately, getting out for the trip back to the airport was a different story. We lost traction and twice got stuck at the end of the driveway. Gives a whole new meaning to "man power".

The temperature was -6F Saturday and Sunday nights. Sunday was cold and snowy, adding about 2 inches to the snow pack in Rachel's back yard. Needless to say, we stayed inside with a roaring fire the entire weekend. And just to prove that Addy is perfectly capable of getting her opinion across . . . She was not happy that Mom was ignoring her requests for food so she could take still more photos. Good lungs on that kid.