St. Louis, Visitors, California, Estes Park and then some!

I know, I know. It took way too long for me to post new pictures. And it's not because I've had nothing to post, believe me, I have. In the last month, I have been to St. Louis and California and had guests come visit. Yes, I travel A LOT. Too much, and Jake is less than accomodating these days, so the traveling is going to subside. In Jake's short 10 months of living, he's been on 9 trips, been to 7 states and been on 20 airplanes. He's been an angel on 19 of these flights and the one that he was not an angel was enough to make me never want to fly again.

So let's get to what's been happening with the 3 of us. I went to St. Louis to visit my sister Lea and her family and we had a great time! Lea was my fashion consultant and filled me in on how to dress cute and still have mom friendly clothing, which I have to say has been a big struggle for me. Sadly, I don't have any pictures to show for that trip. Why do I take more pictures at home and forget to take pictures when I'm away? After St. Louis, my sister Felecia and her husband Logan came out to visit. He is testing at some police depts here in Denver, the first in Colorado SPrings. We went down to the Garden of the Gods and walked around, and it was so pretty and a perfect day for that. Here's us at the Garden of the Gods:

Next was a trip to California to visit my mom and dad. Wesley was going to be on a business trip and I HATE being home without him. So many times, I take a trip when he's away. On this specific trip, I was scrambling to get everything all packed. Jake was with me, "helping". Here's how he helps:

I'm sure some of you other moms are nodding because this has happened to you as well. And this was just in a couple minutes that he did all this. Nap time couldn't have come at a better time otherwise my packing wouldn't have ever gotten done.

The only picture I took while in California was of Jacob with Uncle Alex, my brother, whom Jake just loves! Alex can make Jake laugh more than anyone I know, it's so cute.

After California, we decided to spend a Saturday enjoying the Colorado scenery, it's just gorgeous, so we went to Estes Park and drove around Rocky Mountain National Park. We had a blast! And Jake did so well the whole time.
Here's Jake and Wes at Bear Lake in the park.

Is this not the most beautiful view? And it was such a warm day, in the 50s in the mountains, not bad! We came home to 70 degree weather (and a lot of snow the next day, what's up with the weather?)

I love going downtown and walking down the streets and seeing the cute shops, that's one of my most favorite things to do. We saw a place called the Glass House. They had free demonstrations and show you how they make glass things, it was really cool. They gave Jake a souvenir, which was cute. Here's Jake and I outside of that shop, with all of the glass items in the window.

I haven't really updated on Jake's progress, but he's crawling, he not only has his 2 bottom teeth, but has his 2 'fangs' as well... yep, I have a little Edward (Twilight) in my home, he can stand on his own and is eating all sorts of grown up foods. He's just growing up too fast! He can tear apart an orange like no one I've ever seen. I was eating a clementine the other day and gave him one to play with and this is what became of this poor clementine:
He sure can tear things up, huh?

So that's my forever long update on our latest adventures. This month: A trip to California to drop off Jake before leaving for Hawaii, afterwhich we will have my parents come for Easter and then we are off to Disney World... Busy month to say the least! Thankfully though, Wesley will be with us as we fly and I can have him by my side to help with Jake.