Friday, August 31, 2007

Back to Horning's

Two weeks after we got home from Denver found us driving down to North Plains Oregon again to visit Horning's Hideout. This time, we were going to Northwest String Summit featuring the Yonder Mountain String Band.

Gerry and I eased the cost of the trip by volunteering at the event which meant that we got the cost of our tickets reimbursed. Here, Reed and I are working the VIP gate... okay, maybe neither of us are really working...
String Summit is a much more laid back affair than when String Cheese plays at Horning's, so here, we are, laying back!!

In the mile high city

Reed's first airplane ride was down took us down to Denver. Gerry and I wanted to see String Cheese Incident play their final shows at Red Rocks and so it meant a trip for the whole family!


Gerry and I felt more than a little trepidation at taking Reed on a plane, but he was perfect. It probably helped that at the time, we thought he had allergies so were giving him Benadryl so he slept almost the whole way (turns out he doesn't have allergies, thank goodness).
We didn't spend much time in Denver (we arrived on a Friday and left again on Monday) but we did manage to make a trip to Rocky Mountain National Park. Sadly, this was the only time that day we got out of the car! This is NOT the way that we would normally like to visit a park, but Reed fell asleep in the car right after this was taken, and we didn't want to wake him. Turns out that was for the best too because he needed the sleep, he came down with some kind of bug that evening that would send his temperature up well over 103 degrees! Gerry and I were extremely thankful that my parents had come along to watch Reed so that we could leave him at the hotel and not have to worry about taking a sick baby to a concert, or alternatively, missing that last String Cheese show.

Reed's first fort

Gerry's Grandma got a lady bug tent for Reed. Here he is enjoying himself inside.
Here he's asking for the password to get inside!

Long time no post

Okay, sorry it's been so long since I put anything up here! Our busy schedule and the release of the last Harry Potter book are to blame. I promise I'll make it up tonight!

We had these portraits taken when Reed was just over 6 months old (can you believe he's already 9 and a half months old?!). We wanted to hurry and get pictures taken before he sprouted teeth so that his wonderful gummy smiles would be immortalized. I don't regret having the pictures taken when we did, but we needn't have worried about him sprouting teeth. He's just now got his first pearly white!