our labor day weekend

we had a very fun, but busy holiday weekend! my wonderful in-laws arrived last thursday and were here until yesterday morning. we did more over the weekend than we've done the whole time we've lived here, i think! we had great fun catching up with them and seeing the sights around denver. here are a few of the things we got to see:
on the light rail, headed downtown:

the city lights:

as we drove into estes park, i snapped this picture really quick-we don't actually know those people... there were having a special market in estes park..dustin and ryan were really excited about it, and also just as excited about being together again!

how cute is this?!

ryan's best attempt at a mickey mouse pancake, practicing for the kiddo-luckily, he has a couple of years to practice! the ears kept falling off!! a pretty sunflower-they are wildflowers here and grow all over the place!
we took a ride on the dinosaur ridge tour bus-quite fascinating!
these are actual fossilized dino footprints from about 60 million years ago (or something equally as crazy)...they were charcoaled in soon after they were discovered so they'd be easier to see):