For the past 5 weeks we have had people staying in our house. First it was Aaron's mom then my mom and nephew. During their stays we had other visitors scattered in as well. We LOVE having visitors. We are always happy when the grandparents can spend time with the kids. We just didn't schedule very well this time. We didn't even have one day of a break between visitors. Yesterday, the last of the visitors left.
To celebrate, we stayed the night up in Denver on Saturday. That wasn't the plan but that's what happened. Aaron had reserve duty this weekend. Since moving to the Springs he now spends Reserve weekends in Denver. Because the Navy pays for the room, usually he has to share a room with some other sailor. For some reason this weekend he got a room to himself. So we made a family night of it.
The kids and I headed up for the evening. On the way we stopped to get Caleb some new shoes. The kids is constantly growing out of his shoes. Hopefully, one day his height will catch up to his feet. Lucky for him we found shoes with spaceshuttles and planets on them. He still loves anything space related, so was thrilled with the shoes. He even wanted to sleep with them that night.
We ended up doing dinner with a bunch of people from Aaron's new unit. When he was commissioned he was moved to a new unit. This was the first weekend with the new unit so they had an afterhours get together. It was nice to meet the people from the new unit. The kids don't get to see a whole lot of Navy so it was good to have them around a bunch of people in uniform for a couple of hours.
After dinner we headed downtown to walk around. If you've been living under a rock then you probably don't know that the DNC is in Denver this year. The convention actually starts this week. We didn't notice anything really different about Denver except the police presence. There were more police than non-police...on foot, on motorcycles, on bicycles, in cars. We even ran into a group of about six at the coffee shop in full riot gear. I guess they were prepared. About the only action we saw them get was turning on their lights for the kiddos. It was a nice walk through downtown, though.
Give us a week filled with more family nights like this and then we will be ready to start planning for more visitors.
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He is a Navy Brat who calls Charleston, SC home. She grew up in Montana. They met, fell in love, and married while in the Navy. They moved to SC had girly-girl and 7 years later had baby boy. Now they have moved their family from their beloved home in SC to Colorado. Follow along on their adventures.
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