Colorado

We had the most wonderful two weeks in Colorado. My dad brought my nephew, Ian, along for one of the weeks. We did it all...seriously, I think we did it all! Since we were staying for two weeks instead of just one, we did not have to pre-plan everything which made for one of our best vacations. The boys were great the whole time...even for the 14 hour drive! I have posted a lot of pictures....and these just give you a glimpse at what we did!

There is a playground right by our condo...of course we played several days and even grilled out here one night.

We threw LOTS of rocks into the river...

We went to Frontier days at Keystone...which is code for FREE stuff for kids. They had a blast hula hooping, riding a little train, jumping in bounce houses, and a petting zoo.

We rode bikes....

Grandpa with his boys at Sapphire Point.

They have all these little chipmunks that love to eat seeds right from your hand. It is always a fun place to go...not to mention beautiful!

Found some leftover snow....
(Grandpa is lucky I left out the one of him sliding down the hill.....)

We fished....twice.... This is Ian waiting for his catch.

We went to Breckenridge to ride the Alpine Slide. You ride the ski lift up and ride a little car down. It was so fun we did this twice, too!

We golfed and golfed! This was our first one. Every turn Spencer would take his ball to the hole, drop it in, and celebrate! And I mean EVERY hole! EVERY time we golfed..which ended up being about 4 times!

We hiked....this one is heading up to Rainbow Lake in Frisco.

We went to the Fireman's Pancake Breakfast on the 4th of July.

The parade was long and hot....let's just say the kids had fun.
(Even Isaac got too hot and had to head home early.)

The boys got these at the parade and we had many dance parties that night!

Fireworks over Lake Dillion....Spencer hid behind Greg and Isaac covered his ears!

We swam at Silverthorne Rec Center....this is Ian going down a little slide.

My aunt Rose with Ian....

We kayaked....and jumped the dock.....:)

Golfed at Copper....

...rode Go-Carts at Copper..

We went to the Denver aquarium....and ate dinner there.
Our table was right next to a huge aquarium.

...shopped only one day....

...more golfing....

...another hike and more throwing rocks and sticks into the water falls.

The last week we biked to the castle park almost everyday.

At the hotel on our way home....

We really had the best time. We are so thankful to have a beautiful condo to go to and to be able to take our boys to do so much. I was dreading the drive and the boys were SOOOO good the whole time. They proved us wrong!
Thanks for coming Grandpa and Ian.
Thanks Rose for playing with us....
We cannot wait for next summer!









P.S. I did not take pictures but should mention a little drama....At the grocery store I did not buckle Spencer in and he was riding in the basket. I got distracted and pulled backwards a little and he fell right out on his head! He got checked out and was fine, but lesson learned...buckle those babies up! AND....Isaac wanted some drama, too, so one day playing in Breckenridge, he fell down on the playground and got so worked up crying he passed out! Scared us to death...he did that when he was a baby up there,too. Anyway, he was fine. What is a trip without a little drama, right! Thank goodness both incidences ended up being minor and we still had a great time!