Visiting Friends and Family in Denver

July 11-13 was fun! I visited friends Kathy and her daughter, Ellen and we were treated to dinner by my daugher, Heidy, in downtown Denver.

Heidy is pictured at the Denver Art Museum prior to her evening's work at Racines Restaurant. It was a pleasure to meet some of Heidy's co-workers and to hear how much they like working with her, and what a great girl she is. Of course, I have always known that, but it was sweet to hear it from her "unbiased" co-workers - proud mama here.

Ellen and I spent some quality "auntie" time making clay animals attached to and baked onto the top of pencils described in a prior post a few weeks ago. And we painted with Scratch 'n Sniff Watercolors that we mixed up from Kool Aide. Both craft projects were big hits with Ellen. Talk about taking your crafts to town!

Good friend Kathy works for the Downtown Denver Partnership as Director of Public Policy & Strategic Partnerships. She is very busy with all her work tasks, and it was exciting to hear how the partnership is preparing for the Democratic National Convention next month. And that is just one of the things on her plate.

Kathy is making a reservation this week for the National Public Radio Story Corps. The Story Corps is something I really enjoy listening to, and I do hope she is selected to speak about the significance of adopting Ellen from China five years ago. Ellen came to Kathy through Chinese Children Adoption International, a process which took over a year to complete. As you can see from the pictures, the motherhood role for Kathy has been of major significance in her life.

On to crafts again tomorrow.