Pre- and Post-Wedding Festivities

In November, our friends Brett and Casey got married in St. Louis. It was wonderful to get to witness their wedding and have lots of dear friends from college come to town for the wedding!

Before the wedding on Saturday, we had some time so we all decided to take a tour at the Budweiser brewery not far from the hotel. I took a few photos while we were on the tour!

I don't exactly remember what was going on here, but Jeff was sticking something in Stauffer's pocket... Pretty typical for these former roommates.

Checking out the Clydesdales outside. They really are huge and really beautiful.

Green Valley house missing a few roommates.

After the wedding, our families came to St. Louis on Sunday morning to all have breakfast together. We ended up going to the restaurant in the lobby of the hotel where we stayed and it worked out pretty well.

Beaty and Jeff playing with Boone's toys.

Looking at pictures of the wedding.

And lots of chatting...

And Boone got to be around both sets of grandparents! He is definitely a loved and spoiled little boy!

I didn't lug my good camera along with me to the wedding, so I only have a few photos on my phone from the actual event and for some reason, I can't get them to load right now. Hopefully I can update the post with a few more from the actual, beautiful wedding! Congrats Casey and Brett! We are so happy for you and so glad we all could get together for it!

More Nomad Life... in St. Louis!

Around Halloween, we spent some time in St. Louis. We attended my a Harvest Party at my parent's church and it brought back a lot of memories growing up and going there for Harvest Party myself! Boone actually wore a dinosaur costume I wore when I was two years old and my mom made it, so it has held up really well! Boone had a blast playing all the games and he didn't really get the whole candy thing yet, so the games were really the fun part for him.

Sharing candy with Dora.

He loved the bounce house they had set up for the younger kiddos.

And he loved the big bounce house with the slide. He must have gone on it 10 times.

Look at that face!

Boone with his Uncle John and John's girlfriend, Katie. It was such a warm weekend in St. Louis and Boone was sweating in his costume.

Playing golf

Checking out the petting zoo

All tired and ready to head home to Nana and Papa's house.

A week later, we trick-or-treated on actual Halloween. It was quite a bit colder than the weekend before, so the dinosaur costume worked out a bit better.

At Creve Coeur city hall for their trunk or treat.

Hanging out with the police.

We stopped at the Younkins for trick-or-treating. Boone was their only visitor!

Later that weekend, our former neighbor Johan came to visit. Him and his family used to live next door until they moved back to South Africa (where they were originally from.) It was so great to see him, we missed seeing his wife and girls though.

I jumped in a picture too!

Johan in front of his old house. Lots of good memories with his family!

Boone and Uncle John. I thought this was a good picture!

Happy Halloween!... only 4 months late :)

Summer St. Louis Visit

We headed back to Missouri for my cousin's wedding and Jeff's family reunion. Jeff wasn't going to be able to come back for the whole time, so I decided to drive our car back. Carol offered to fly up and drive back with us since it is a long drive! I was very thankful to have her with us!

I didn't have anywhere else to put this picture! Boone and I made Jeff a little breakfast for father's day!

Once Carol got to Denver, we decided to go check out the Hammonds candy factory tour. It is a fun place and the tour is free! Hammonds is sold all over the country in places like Sur La Table and William Sonoma. Their specialty is those big candy canes that you see in fancy stores.

Grandma and Boone in front of a truck outside of the factory.

These next pictures jump to our first couple days in Missouri. On Saturday morning, we went pick blueberries outside of St. Louis. We grew up going blueberry picking on the 4th of July each year, so it was fun to go this year around the same time of year.

Boone "helping" pick berries with Sybil. Really, he just ate a lot of the berries (and he didn't car what color they were... lots of green berries were eaten that morning!)

It was a HOT morning, 

Mom with our blueberry bounty.

Playing at the playground after we were done picking!

Later that night, we went to my cousin's wedding at a beautiful country club in St. Louis. The weather was perfect and the wedding was beautiful. I was glad Boone and I could come back and be with my mom's side of the family.

On Sunday after church, we grabbed some food and went to a local park and played.

Boone loved getting to show Nana and Papa how he rules a playground.

After the park, we went to the Creve Coeur Days parade. Growing up, we always went to the parade and I marched in it in high school with the band. It has gotten quite a bit smaller, but Boone loved all the freebies they handed out.

And of course, we had to hit the zoo once while we where in St. Louis.

Boone looks upset, but we were in line for the train, which is his favorite part of the zoo.

So loved by all his grandparents

Before we left, we had the opportunity to get together with my aunt and uncle and cousin and her kids. Boone loved playing with the bigger boys.

Next stop: Fulton! 

Surprise!

Well... we are finally settled into our house in Denver and it is starting to, sort of, feeling home! I say that because it feels weird to say "we live in Denver!" It is somewhere we've always wanted to live and it has not disappointed so far! The weather has been wonderful, and we've been able to enjoy all the fluffy powder up in the mountains and get out to ski at two different resorts.

The first month we were here was pretty hard though. It took us quite awhile to find somewhere to live that was decent and that didn't break the bank. The rental market here is crazy and everything is in high demand. If we were going to be here for any amount of time it would be worth it to buy a home, but sadly, we will probably be in Denver for our shortest stay yet... But then again, you never know! Since it took us so long to find a place and get settled, I've fallen a bit behind with the blog! So the next couple of posts will be playing some catch up on the life and times of the Robertson clan. First up, my mom's surprise party!

My mom turned 60 back at the end of January! My brother and I decided that we would gather a few of her close friends and surprise her with a dinner at a local restaurant. Boone and I flew in the day before her birthday and my mom and dad took my mom's birthday off work. We went to the Science Center and we all had fun playing with Boone at all the exhibits. Then we went to lunch and came home to let Boone get his nap in. We had to do a little fibbing to get my mom to the specific restaurant where we had planned the party. We told her that my brother had bought a Groupon for the restaurant and he wanted to contribute to the dinner. It somehow worked and everyone was waiting to surprise her when we arrived. It turned out so well and she was really surprised! It was so fun to do something for my mom because she does so much for so many other people!

The pictures are a little blurry, but it was a dark room, so I'm just thankful to have pictures! Happy birthday, Mom! We love you!

Mom opening a few gifts people brought. My Aunt Dorothy made a neat picture books of all different times in my mom's life! Really cool to see all the old pictures!

The cake that I made with lots of help from Mrs. Younkin! It was three layers and completely from scratch! It was quite the endeavor, but tasted REALLY good!

My mom and her sister, Dorothy!

The fam, minus Jeff! We missed him while he was busy getting our stuff moved into our new home.