So long Sally and Grandma and Grandpa Enslinger's 60th Anniversary Get Away!

Over Labor Day Weekend we went to Frisco, Colorado to spend time with Dustin's whole side of the family. Before we left though, we took one last hurrah ride in Dustin's baby, Sally the gold Mustang. We couldn't have 3 cars sitting around anymore, and the Corolla gets better gas mileage and the Highlander is our family car so the Mustang had to go. But not without some sadness from both Dustin and I. It is the car that Dustin bought all by himself in college and the car we went on many a date together in. (We of course couldn't sell it though. It will be Dustin's baby forever. I am sure Sally will be anxiously awaiting our next visit to Kansas.) Dustin drove it out to Colorado and it is now sitting in the garage at his parent's house.. As a family we squished and crammed ourselves into the stang for one last ride up the canyon. Here we are saying goodbye! So long Sally!!

This was actually only Jack's second time in the stang. As you can tell, things are a little tight in there fore a car seat.


Anyway....moving on from that sad note....we went to Colorado because Dustin's Grandma and Grandpa Enslinger wanted to do something and get everyone together to celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary that is coming up at the end of October. We had such a fun time and it was great to see everyone! Here are the two love birds of 60 years!

We stayed in a really nice 10 bedroom house in very beautiful Frisco.

While we were there we were able to get family pictures. I don't a have a copy of the whole group one yet. But here is Dustin's family at least.

Here is our little family!

We celebrated the anniversary with cake, cake feeding, toasts and all. Each grandchild and child said a thank you for all they have done for them. Then Grandma and Grandpa spent the next little while scratching away at the $100 + amount of lottery tickets they got from everyone. (No gifts. Just cards and lotto tickets!) We also celebrated a few people's birthday. (Oh yes cake two nights in a row and it was delish!) Shawn, Melissa, Jack and I went and rented a paddle boat on the lake and Dustin got to go gambling.

Jack loved seeing his cousin Gillian and enjoyed taking a bath with her and stealing her pink and purple binkie right out of her mouth a few times.

Proud Jack! Poor Gillian!

He absolutely loved everyone there,especially when they ran laps around the house with him. It was pretty funny to see that a lot of the time all the adults were just sitting around watching the babies and being thoroughly entertained. Jack especially loves his Grandma and Grandpa, and I am pretty sure they are the proudest grandparents around too! They are so much fun with Jack! Here they are taking a break while getting pictures taken to entertain Jack!


Here are some other highlights from the trip.

On the drive to the airport we stopped and went shopping, and Lynn and Patty (and Dustin and I a little) pretty much bought Jack his whole 18 month wardrobe! Thank you so much for that! It was a really fun trip. It was great to see everyone and to celebrate such an amazing accomplishment of 60 years together by Grandma and Grandpa. Thanks to them for making the whole trip possible, for paying for us to get there, and for being the amazing examples that they are to all of us! We love you!