family fun.

This past week, all of my mom's siblings were in town and being that I am still unemployed, I got to hang out with all of them.  As a sidenote, Kalin is EMPLOYED!  Hooray, we are really excited and he's liking his new job.

It's always fun to hang around all my aunts and uncles and my little cousin Lane.  He provided a LOT of energy and luckily there were enough of us to appease his wanting to be entertained.  Thankfully, there is a lot of educational programming on TV that teaches him about feelings, chinese and spanish. (Thanks, Nickelodeon).

My Aunt Ginger, Uncle Mitch, Aunt Gina, Mom and I took Lane to the Denver Zoo for a day filled with monkeys, elephants, bears, birds, giraffes, lions and lots of senior citizens (they came by the bus load that day...)

Lane with the black bears.

Mom and Lane with the Mountain Goats

After a few days in Denver we all headed up to Grand Lake to spend some time relaxing, eating, wondering and in general enjoying each other's company.  Unfortunately Kalin and my Dad stayed back because of work but met us up there for the weekend.  Some went off fishing, some played games, some went into town and I did a lot of stitching.  Here's some pics from our time in Grand Lake:

if you give a moose a muffin...

my dad's newest "project" and some weekend work for kalin and i.

kalin soakin up some sun on the Lake

us!

sisters: my mom and aunt ginger

look who caught a fish!

So, it was an excellent mini break and I think I've met my quota of three-year-old time for awhile, but I'll be ready for the little guy once he's back.  But now it's back to the job hunt...