We decided to go to Fort Collins for Thanksgiving this year. We stayed at the Residence Inn in Loveland. We had two bedrooms which were connected to a small kitchen and living room. There were two bathrooms. Dad had a half day of work on Wednesday and everyone else had early release for school. We were able to leave a little after 2 PM. For dinner, we had BLTs in the car on the way down on homemade bread.
Since Jacob had finished reading the first Harry Potter book, he was allowed to watch the movie. We started watching it Wednesday night.
Thursday we had breakfast in the hotel. Alice loves hotel breakfast, but said the the muffins were "not the best." She likes the bacon and juice. We played at the pool and hot tub for a couple hours in the morning.
We bought Dani some limited edition frosted lemon cheerios which she says are delicious with blueberries.
Alice and Jacob are still light enough to get thrown pretty high in the pool.
We also had races across the pool
Before we left for Fort Collins (Monday for FHE) we made calzones and chicken bakes and froze them. They cooked up pretty easily in the hotel. They were our thanksgiving lunch/dinner. We also had chips and dip, veggies and dip and some fruit which we snacked on most of the day. Each kid got to pick a treat to have that day.
We laid around, did a virtual escape room, watched some football and BYUTV, did a little bit of a puzzle, and spent a little time at Twin Silos park. It was cold and windy but it was nice to get out of the hotel room for a bit.
Doug and the kids all went down the slide at the same time. Dani went down once too.
One of the big reasons to go to Fort Collins was to get to go the temple. Doug, Adam and Scott went Friday morning at 7 AM to do baptisms and confirmations. The roads were pretty slick. We forgot to take pictures outside the temple.
Here are some pictures of the aftermath of Doug getting ruthlessly surprise attacked by his boys. Mostly they just dogpiled tickled him.
Friday we swam again. Mom got some Christmas shopping done and we watched a little football and Frozen. We drank lemonade spiked with 7up and had ice cream that evening while we watched Frozen 2. It was a lot of TV watching for our family. We do not watch TV very often at home.
Saturday morning David and Jacob played chess in the hotel lobby while the rest of us finished up breakfast.
We got packed up and cleaned several inches of snow off the car.
Doug, Scott and Adam got dropped off at the temple while everyone else went with mom to the World Market for some shopping for her German classroom. The boys have a goal to go the temple 12 times a year. This was our 12th visit. We decided this was cheating a little bit since it was two visits in the same Fort Collins trip. We hope to go one more time this year, but sometimes the weather does not cooperate with temple trips.
We went to Costco where we filled up with gas ($2.79/gallon which is much lower than it has been for a a long time), did a little shopping (not too much cause the car stuffed full already and then ate lunch at the food court (4 hot dogs with no buns for Mom and Jacob, 4 chicken bakes, 2 pieces of pizza and 7 smoothies all for about $50 total).
By this time the snow had stopped and we got on the road before 1 PM. The roads were covered in snow for much of the way home, but completely dry in other spots. The kids did great on the drive. A few even took naps. Doug and Alice played some games from "50 games to play in the car." Dani joined in some too.
We had a fun time. We ate too much junk (but it was Thanksgiving). It was good to get the boys to the temple. We have well behaved kids for the most part. They really get along with each other most of the time. They have fun together and we often have a lot of laughs together.
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