Sunday – 23 February 2020

Cohen rolled over, squinted his eyes open looking to see if I was awake. We smiled at each other, then I said, “I have something exciting to tell you”. He asked what it was, and I told him it was snowing. He sprung to his knees and excitedly asked if we could go look at it.

Our room is on the basement level of Gaye’s house, so Cohen snuck up the stairs, and poked his head around the corner to look out the window! The look of excitement on his face as he watched the snow falling outside was priceless.

We rushed to get dressed, and Cohen enthusiastically headed out to help Doug shovel snow! He spent at least an hour shovelling the driveway and the road, and he LOVED it!

He kept shovelling until our family began arriving at around 10.30 for brunch. Joined by Elaine, Joe & Kate; Jamie & Alex; Jenn, Greg, Nikki, Mac & Westin; plus Nikki’s parents, Darcy & Mary, and of course Gaye & Doug, we had a delicious brunch, enjoying each other’s company, while the kids played like they’d known each other forever.

Mac and Cohen played in the snow and went sledding while Doug built them a big snowman. They threw snowballs, and made snow angels, and had a really memorable time.

After a wonderful afternoon catching up with our cousins, we met back up with Stasi and went back to her place, where we enjoyed a relaxing afternoon- packing, playing, talking, eating!

After dinner Stasi’s neighbour, Cindy, came over and the kids headed outside in the frigid weather to play on the trampoline and thrown snowballs again! Cohen proclaimed that his new favourite food is snow!! I guess he was eating it!

Everyone seemed reluctant to go to bed- after all this was our last night in Denver. First thing the next morning we’d be heading to the airport, Florida bound.