Road Trip: Day 3

I had my camera out pretty much ALL day this day; and therefore took the most amount of pictures. We were in Steamboat Springs, CO. It is such a beautiful little town! It had a really good feel to it. Clean, green, friendly, and WAY up in the mountains. Brandon was an excellent host and showed us some of his favorite places.  Starting with this charming restaurant where we were able to sit under umbrellas and next to a babbling stream.  Leah impressed all of the servers with her cool shades.

We went on a mini hike around the College where Brandon works.  Ethan was really excited about being up in the mountains.  Leah refused to stay on the path.  Brandon said that he had recently seen a bear in that area, so I was a little nervous.  It was a fun time.  I really miss mountains!

We also went to the Yampa River and let the kids get some aggression out.  

Throwing big rocks does the trick. 

Also, I will never trust Brandon with my children again.*

And then the last part of the day was a little walk to a waterfall.  It started to rain on us so we had to run from tree to tree to take cover.  Again, the mountains are so beautiful!

*Kidding of course; I hope it's obvious that that picture was photoshopped.

Road Trip: Day 2

The second day we made it to Steamboat Springs, CO to visit our friend Brandon.   We were in the car pretty much the whole  day, so all I mostly took pictures of the scenery.  It was a pretty amazing sunset.

Family History, I am doing it!

We recently returned from a loooooong road trip. We calculated 2900 miles, and 50 hours in the car. Oh my. The kids did really well; better than expected. There was an hour or two in there where I thought I would probably die. But luckily we made it through. I'm not sure how long it's going to take to post all of my pictures, I took a bunch! But here's a couple from the car the first night.

Boating

I thought it'd be fun to have a little boat race in the irrigation drain thing across the street. I won't mention that the paper boats we made didn't work longer than 30 seconds; but I will say that we had a fantastic time playing in the water anyway.

A pretty morning at the park

Painting

Last time I painted with Ethan he was SO not into getting his hands messy.  But after seeing Leah dive right in this time, Ethan was like, "Oh, maybe I will try that".  That's like with most things Leah does.  "Oh, climbing onto that kitchen table does look fun!"

Birthday Date

We went on a super fun date on the Friday after my birthday last weekend. Dinner at a fancy restaurant, Nelson Atkin's art museum and Water Lilies exhibit, then the Plaza and fancy cupcakes (for free!). Makes me realize we need to make date-night a priority, and not just something that occurs every once in a long while.

Here are some "polandroids" from the museum.