Like no time had passed Julia and Avry were playing together like the BEST FRIENDS that they are, it was so sweet. I loved listening to their little conversations, for example...
Julia:(opening up the door to our garage) "Hey Avry wanna see my new car? Look Avry two cars."
Avry: "Oh my goodness, that's too many."
There were so many cute things like that said over the weekend, those little girls are so precious! I love that they're best friends.
It was more refreshing than I knew to have GOOD friends here with us in Castle Rock. All this visiting is great, but it really is so hard to see everyone go back home. Having family and friends, (and friends that are like family) here truly makes this the PERFECT place to live. We miss you all so much!
We went out to dinner Friday night and then got ice cream, which is next door to the fire station, so we stopped by to say hi to the Castle Rock firefighters. They were soooo friendly! Julia and Avry got to sit in the fire truck and wear a helmet, then they got to take home their own helmets. It was very cute.
Saturday we looked at some "Michelle & Spencer" homes. GORGEOUS!!! It made me so excited to think about them living here, it really is a great place to live, but they kept saying they didn't want to live where it snows, so we're out I guess. (sad) We then headed to the zoo. Can you tell we love that place?
It was great fun, but wore us out! The babies were so good! The girls were a blast! It was really really funny to watch them watch a Mama lion clean her cub. Avry was quite concerned the mama was hurting the cub and at one point yelled,"Noooooo". They both really liked the elephants and were very engrossed by the elephant's poo-poo
that Michelle pointed out to them. We saw hippos and a rhino, which wanted out of it's indoor quarters and when a zookeeper let it out Julia cried, "Yay you got out!" Jules & Avry loved running around chasing the bunnies that live all over the park grounds. Such a nice afternoon. 
We had a BBQ that night, its always so fun to have dinner with friends! After the kids went down we started a movie, the Adams were the only ones left by the end of it! Spencer crashed pretty quick and after a long fight Michelle gave in. Today we went to Sacrament together and then they had to get ready to head to the airport.
It worked out well saying goodbye at church, since I cried (like usual when I have to say goodbye), so it was good to have somewhere to go to occupy my attention.
Michelle and Spencer have always been such good friends. I guess when they visited I realized how far away we really are and how we won't get to see each other as much as we use to. The past two months I have been so focused on getting here and getting adjusted and then anticipating these visits, that I hadn't stopped to think about the reality of not seeing my loved ones on a regular basis. Its such a blessing to have these friendship and although we would LOVE for Michelle and Spencer to move here, because as Spencer said, "there are only cool people in Castle Rock", we know everyone has to find their own perfect spot in the world. Thanks guys for coming to share ours for a while, can't wait to have you back!!!!
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It really was great to have the Dunsmoors here in CR, CO. Chanel summed up the weekend very well, but forgot to add detail about our dinner Friday night at Union, an American Bistro. It was probably the best eating out experience of my entire life. The food was unbelievably wonderfully fantastically delicious. The chicken and peanut sauce on crackers (I don't know the technical name) appetizer was extraordinary, Julia's kid-size cheeseburger looked like something out of Better Beef magazine, if such a publication exists (and it should), and my chicken and hash browns dared any other meal on earth to taste as divine. Please leave a comment and let us know when you are coming to CR, and we'll make reservations immediately. Maybe I'll be brave enough to try the duck this time.
Seriously, downtown CR has the best restaurants on earth.
Oh yeah? Saturday night Ryan said his BBQ chicken was even better than Union's, you know Ryan though, everyday there is something new and extrodinary for him to rave about. Another detail about the Union dinner was how our 2/3 year olds totally ruined the ambiance of what I am sure is normally a very chilled dining experience. I thought it was quite funny, because kids will be kids and when the train came barreling through and the girls stood on their chairs screaming and saying chugga-chugga-choo-choo, you can't do anything but laugh.
You guys are so funny. Glad you had a good time.
I'm going to print out a copy of this blog because you summed up our weekend so well. Maybe I can cut and paste it into my blog!
Seeing how happy you guys are there really did get us thinking about moving. We're still thinking about where we should be.
At Union... you can't forget about the girls digging in the dirt! Maybe that was just Avry. Ryan's chicken was really good but I have to go with the Union chicken. Your brownies were SOOO good. I kept snacking on them on the plane.
Castle Rock is definitely a cool place. Thanks for being such great hosts!
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