"Crawl"orado!

A few days before we headed to Colorado, we thought it would be so fun if Ryan started crawling while we were there...
as you can see, Grandpa Johnson tried his best to teach him, but he didn't quite get it while we were there. I just couldn't resist using the blog post title anyway!

Brad and Monica (Brad is Seth's brother) live in Colorado where Brad is going to dental school, and this year they invited everyone out to run the Bolder Boulder! 10K. (Coincidentally, my family is running a 10K together next week, so we like to call this the year of the family re-run-ions. I'm full of punnies today!)

Typical colorado beatiful landscape. And typical for me to have a water bottle in one hand. Seriously, I drink 8 liters a day.

Finley wasn't quite sure what to think of another grandchild (with the exact same Elmo book!) but the boys warmed up to each other. I'm excited to see them play together in a year or two!
Look at that kid, isn't he adorable??
This is how he was entertained for a good hour or two--Monica let him spray the dogs with the water. It was adorable.

The Johnsons went on a hike on Friday. These two Johnsons had a little too much sun for the day so we didn't head up, but we sure look prepared!

Ryan had fun playing with his Grandma, Grandpa, Aunts, and Uncles. He especially liked when they'd show him all of Monica's pretty plants.
Ryan also learned this sniffy snuff snuff face while we were in Colorado, as displayed here next to beautiful CJ. (You know, the smelling flowers face like Brandon used to do!) I think he initially started doing it because I scrunch my nose when I'm laughing at something he does, so he thought it was some sort of sarcastic laugh. But then he started doing it when he was hungry for big boy food...so I'm not quite sure how they are connected.

We like our plaid!

We had lots of time outside (um, clearly this was the part where ryan was in the sun...oops.)

Curt introduced us to the yumminess that is BJs. Home brewed Root beer--it's almost as good as Uncle Nolan's!

And Brad showed us his MAD bbq skills! Ohhh and Monica, she makes so many delicious meals! Brad and Monica were the best host/hostesses. It was SO fun to get to know them better and see where they live...etc.

Ryan was a little tuckered out with the schedule changes. Grandpa was a good pillow.

I was also lucky to get to see Ann while I was there! Nothin' like a Nordstrom Half-Yearly sale or Pizzukies to bring old friends together. There's something to be said about being able to pick up a friendship right where it's left off--one of the things I love most about Ann!

Ohhh, that's right, and the race! I almost forgot! Turns out the babies stayed home with this mama and grandma, CJ, and David while the rest of the family represented and Monica took awesome pictures. I was REALLY sad to not get to run, but that's just one of those things that happens when I'm my son's nourishment and the race is far away :) Everyone did really well and I'm so proud of them all! Way to go people!