Weekend Fun

We're on our way with this park quest. Saturday was a great day, finally a small break to all the rain we've been having lately. You'd think this was Seattle. Rain practically every day for the last month. Anyhow, this weekend was the Taste of Fort Collins. And while we didn't actually go into the Taste we did go to Old Town to hang out for the afternoon. I really wanted to go to the Taste but there was an entrance fee and then I could just envision us standing in long lines for hardly anything, the kids would get bored, we'd pay outrageous amounts for two minutes in a bounce house and so on. On the other side of town there was a classic car show going on so we went that way. The boys loved the cars. There was live music on the plaza near the fountain so we also stopped there for a bit before going for a late lunch/early dinner. On the way home we were passing by one of the parks on our list so we decided to stop. If you haven't guessed from the picture above, it was Spring Park. It's a nice small park along Spring Creek and the Spring Creek bike path. Lots of open green for lounging and playing. Some baseball diamonds and a basketball court.

Swing Flyer


A classic Cason look.


Sunday was equally as great. We took care of household stuff. The boys got messy painting. We grocery shopped. The big event of the day was a trip to the movies. We've only once before taken Jonah to a movie theater, when he was probably about Cason's age now. This was Cason's first time going to a movie. We choose UP after hearing a lot of good reviews on it. It was so fun! Cason was just so enthralled by it all. The big screen, the huge tub of popcorn, the contraband candy in Mommy's purse. The movie was great, what a wonderful story and Pixar does it again with their amazing animation. We made it through the whole movie without incident, no potty breaks, no melt downs. It was just a delightful experience. There was one point during a scene change that the screen went black and Cason says out loud "I can't see the...oh!" Another quiet point in the movie he empathetically said "The man is sad." and then he got tears in his own eyes. Jonah was on the other side of Josh so I didn't get to experience his reactions as much, but I think he also loved the movie.

This picture doesn't really show how big that tub of popcorn was. Cason was sticking his whole head into it.


I think this is how Jonah was through the whole thing. This was during the pre-movie entertainment and he was already mesmerized.


What a great weekend and a great kick off to Cason's birthday week. We've got lots of fun stuff planned for the week, including more park play dates, puppet shows at the library, a birthday party with Cason's favorites, a Transformers sleepover with Ethan and Owen, more parks and other fun.