Trip to Colorado

This past week Cooper and I spent the week in Colorado with my family. It was my first time to try to conquer the airport with Cooper by myself. I think Colt was more stressed about me navigating the airport and security than I was. I must say we made it through pretty seamlessly (except for almost missing our return flight, but that was my fault...running late as usual). Cooper was such a good traveler. He slept on both planes and only cried once. Luckily it was when we were exiting the plane.

We definitely missed Colt (he stayed at home to work), but I had plenty of helpers all week. Cooper is one lucky boy. His aunts and uncle love him so much. I don't know what I would have done without them (and Gaga and Grandpa of course). At one point they even fought over who was going to change his diaper.

This is one of my favorite pictures from the trip. We did a lot of shopping and Cooper was getting a little fussy so Monica and Meredith started playing with him. It was so sweet. They were making faces at him and he was just cracking up. They caught this picture of him laughing.

The kids were on fall break so my mom had lots of fun things planned for us to do throughout the week. On Monday, Melissa, Monica, Meredith, Chuck, Monica, my mom, Cooper and I went to the Denver Aquarium. It was Cooper's first time to go to an aquarium. He LOVED it! He is at that age where he likes to watch things move so he was completely captivated by the bright colored fishies swimming around. I was trying to get him to look at the camera for this picture but he wouldn't take his eyes off the sea horses.

On Friday the whole family went to the zoo. The weather was absolutely perfect and we had a blast.

The zoo had so many animals that I had never seen before. My personal favorite was the elephant shrew (google it). It is crazy looking. It was Cooper's first time to go to the zoo so we loved introducing him to all the animals. I think his favorite were the giraffes.

Friday night my mom watched Cooper and the rest of the family went to the Jason Aldean concert. It was so much fun! If you haven't listened to his music I would definitely recommend it.

We had the best week. I feel so fortunate to be able to go and see my family when I miss them! Luckily, we will be getting to see each other quite a bit over the next few months with the holidays coming up.