We spent our Labor Day weekend in Crawford, CO…home of Christian’s parents.  We opted to forgo the 17 hour drive and fly instead.  A two hour flight will beat a 17 hour drive any day.  Cohen did great on the plane, and then decided to fall asleep just before we landed.

After we landed in Grand Junction we made the hour and half drive to Crawford.  Poppa and Memere couldn’t wait to show Cohen around.  Poppa showed Cohen the dogs while Memere gave him rides in the wagon.

This is the view from their deck…so nice!

Cohen also got to spend time with his Uncle Alex, Uncle Andrew and future Aunt Kimberly.  (Somehow Uncle Alex was able to avoid the camera).

Memere also taught Cohen how to go up and down the stairs.

While we were there we took a drive over to Crested Butte to see the offices of Thin Air Media Solutions, the company that Christian’s parents own.  Here are a few pictures I shot out the window on our drive.

It was cool enough there that we needed long sleeves and Cohen got to wear a jacket.  It was so great!

This is the view from one of the windows in the office…how’d you like to look at this everyday while at work!?

While Christian and his dad had a client meeting his mom and I decided to do some people watching outside.  Cohen didn’t think it was nearly as exciting as we did and fell asleep.

Overall we had a great trip and the weather was such a nice change from the Texas heat.  We even got to see some rain!!

Thanks for having us Poppa and Memere…we look forward to seeing you again soon!

This past week Cohen has really started standing up on his own a lot.  I was finally able to capture some pictures of him doing so over the weekend.

We were also able to catch it on video…do please try to ignore the laundry in the back ground…it was laundry day.

We’ve had lots of fun times the past week or so.  We kept Cohen’s friend, Audrey, last weekend so her mommy and daddy could go out for their anniversary.  We packed them up in the strollers and headed down to our neighborhood park.  They had a fabulous time swinging.

This past Friday I hosted my first playgroup at the same neighborhood park.  We ended up on the swings again…Cohen just loves them.  I think he just discovered the trees up above…

Thanks to my friend, Kristen, for these next two photos…

Cohen was in rare form this past Sunday night showing off for John and Jacki…I think they enjoyed it…

And the faces I just can’t get enough of…

This last one has become one of my new favorites…he looks like he just discovered the most amazing thing in this book and a light bulb is going off over his head and he’s saying, “Aha!”   …I love it!!

More to come soon…Cohen is doing some other pretty cool things, but I don’t want to post until I have the video ready…

Stay tuned!

…or so I thought when I pulled into our driveway from work last night.  Bummer.  Anyone know of a good tree service?

On a side note…doesn’t my hubby do a fantastic job on our yard!?

Cohen has always had numerous facial expressions, and he added a new one to his portfolio today.  It’s a frown/mad face, but he does it when happy or upset…so who knows what he’s really trying to convey by doing it.