home sweet home

quick precursor: flying slightly drunk is perfect. i got on the plane closed my eyes and all of a sudden we were landing!

so i decided to go home to colorado for thanksgiving this year. i havent been home since college for it. mostly i hate traveling during the holidays and its so close to x-mas anyways. 

 well my brother had decided that him and his family (wife and 3 kids!!!) would come so i came too. pretty crazy cause i havent seen him since high school and i have never met the family. it was so much fun being with them... coloring, playing eye spy and watching fairly odd parents. 

this is my god daughter davianna. shes 3. she ran up to me when i came in the house and called me her other mommy (my bro always said aunt kim, your god mother :)  

ive never been around little kids before and the smallest things i had to ask questions about. she wanted a snack and i gave her a grip of goldfish crackers and my mom just laughed at me. things like when she says she needs to potty she needs someone to hold her on it so she doesnt fall in. just stuff i really would never think about. 

then the littlest one, aidan (almost 2) is so funny. the most politest kid ive ever witnessed. you hand him his motor cycle and he says thank you. he hands it back and i say thank you and he says your welcome. this could literally go back and forth forever.  they can make a game out of absolutely anything!

and the oldest willow (6) is such an amazing oldest sibling. she is so helpful with the little ones and is always complimenting them. its great to see.

so they took off on friday and i went to the foothills to hang with angy and her BF mike. on the drive up there it started to snow. well when we woke up this is what we saw:

they said this was the first snow of the winter to stick! i brought it with naturally!

i love colorado so much! 

but heres the thing. what do you do when its cold out. i mean i havent had to face this dilemma in a long while.

well you go bowling! who cares if its the saturday after thanksgiving and its 11am... you still drink beer!!! and at 99 cents a game we had a great time. 

then went to nordstrom to have dinner with my mom (she packed home made turkey noodle soup, which we ate in the lunch room). did a little shopping for my b-day. then hit the airport. its crazy how far away and out in the middle of nowhere it is. 

checkin took 2 mins. security took 10 (only cause they picked me to do the new full body x-ray... probably cause there was no one else to pick from and then the guy working there procedded to make fun of my pink shoes and ask me where im from)

the rest of the trip was pretty uneventful. mostly walking around the terminal, laughing at people crowding the gate thinking they are going to get on the flight quicker, and scooping out electrical outlets to charge my cell phone. fell asleep on the plane, got my bag quickly in sd and was back with such ease i thought i had just clicked my heels.

but as much as colorado is home to me i love san diego. i put on flip flops this morning and walked around the farmers market!