Denver

Jared won a free plane ticket at a golf tournament awhile ago.  It was going to expire at the end of October, so he was so GREAT and let me use it to go see college friends in Colorado!  It was super sweet of him to give the ticket to me and I was so excited to get to go on this trip.  Blake and I took off last Thursday morning (unfortunately Landon and Jared had to stay home because we would have had to pay for a plane ticket for them).  It had been over 3 years since I had seen Ashley and 5 years since I had seen my other college roomie Melissa!  WAY too long!

Blake was so excited the night before getting all clean and ready to go!

The minute Ashley picked me up it was seriously like we hadn't been apart...super natural conversation and we picked up right where we had left off.  It is so amazing to have these type of lifelong friends!  We shared a TON of memories together in college and it was fun to chat, catch up, laugh, reminisce and look through old photos.  Sad that our style back then already seems super outdated (we definitely thought we were pretty darn cute back in the day :)

Did I mention that Ashley had twins in February?!?  

This is the scene at the airport...3 babies buckled up and safe in the van!

We kept saying we probably looked like sister wives with all the kids, the two of us and Matt (Ashley's husband) driving around!

Kai wasn't shy and thankfully Blake is used to his big brother crawling all over him too!

Ashley's daughter Allikaye was sooo sweet and it was fun to get to know her better (she is a lot like her mom).  The last time I saw her she was only 2 1/2, so she didn't remember me.  But she was just the cutest, sweetest thing and such a big help!

She kept covering my bangs and saying, "You have the same face as my mom, you look exactly like her!"

I was in charge of watching the babies for a minute while Ashley ran upstairs...Kai got into some paper with marker on it...OOPS!

I'm not cut out to have twins :)

On Friday we met some girls for lunch that we used to play volleyball with in college.  So fun to catch up and see them again!

Here's Ashley, Kai and Laura (who is due with her first baby in May!)

Ashley, Cambria, Allikaye, Laura and Kai

Me, Blake (snoozing), Erin and her little girl Megan (18 months)

Our crazy table of good friends, kids and babies!  We definitely got lots of stares!

I just L.O.V.E Ash so much!  

The Lord was so good in bringing us together our freshman year as roomies and volleyball teammates.  We were seriously ALWAYS together since we lived together, shared a room together, played volleyball together and had all of our classes together!

 Saturday is when Melissa came down to spend the afternoon with us! So very thankful for these girls.  Don't think I would have made it through college without them (it definitely would have been much more boring!)

Here's Ash, Allikaye and Melissa at lunch

The twinsies, Cambria and Kai hanging out!

Me, Allikaye and Blake

Here's our attempt at a reunion photo shoot! 

Taken by Allikaye, with the directions to "look silly"

The fun, self shot (none of us knew where to look on the iPhone!)

Taken by Matt!

Inspecting Matt's work to see if it was worthy to keep!

Melissa doesn't have any kids but she was so great with the chaos and all the babies!

We thought it would be funny to take a picture of her holding all 3 babes and send it to her husband!

Blake wasn't happy being squished between Cam and Kai!

Blakey did so good on the trip...he was a trooper meeting so many new people!

I will say though that coming home our flight was at 9:10 pm.  Blake had just fallen asleep before we boarded the plane and woke up when we got on the plane.  Unfortunately that made for a very tired and unhappy baby.  I had the baby the literally DEATH screamed for the first 10-15 minutes of take off before he finally passed out :(  He didn't want his pacifier, bottle, to nurse, etc. He was just so tired.  The Lord used that experience to give me more understanding next time I hear a screaming baby on a plane!

Allikay didn't want to miss out on the photo shoot and wanted to pics taken with Blake...

This one really made her giggle because it looks like Blake is screaming in her ear...really he was trying to eat her ear (he wasn't making a sound)!

Ashley with my sweet boy!

On Sunday, Ashley's parents came up for brunch.  They were my second family during college, as they came to most of our games and fed these two poor college girls often!  I spent every Thanksgiving and Easter with Ashley's family and even went to her cousin's wedding in Nebraska one year!  

That morning we tried to get some pictures of the 3 babies!

Allikaye getting in on the action!

Ashley is a great mom and does such a wonderful job with the twins and Allikaye!  

So fun to share our lives together as single girls in college and now as wives and mom's in our thirties!

Such a fun trip with great memories! I can't wait until next time!