the best weekend

Living in Colorado has been amazing. We haven't been able to explore more than our town because I was pregnant and uncomfortable. But now that I'm free of pregnancy woes I'm ready to get out and have some fun! We had planned to go camping Friday night but decided not to since we didn't have any of the camping essentials but two sleeping bags and we'd have to borrow everything.

FRIDAY

We ate dinner and headed out to a new park we haven't been to yet with ice cream. It's in Loveland and has TONS of statues. (I don't know which sister-in-law left these awesome glasses in the back of my van but thanks!)

SATURDAY

We took a drive to Walden (which is basically at the top of the Rockies) on the way up we stopped to eat lunch and play in the Poudre river. So cold, and so fun! While playing in the water a little 7 year old caught a fish and then another person caught one. Asher thought it was pretty cool but not as cool as the remote hummer toy that fish-kid had.

This is one of the most beautiful drives I have ever taken. GREEN, beautiful pine trees, streams and rivers everywhere. The kids got bored but Chris and I totally enjoyed the drive just talking and looking out the windows. Once in Walden there wasn't much to see. It's a dinky little town with about 4 antique shops. One called Hoopla was actually really fun to walk through. I was hoping for a candy shop but they had ice cream so we all got some and then walked around. The weather was Ah-maz-ing. 

These pictures can't even do the beauty of the drive justice. I'm going to try anyway...

And then we saw a moose, Chris was SOOOO happy. We watched some special on them on the discovery channel and moose are actually pretty freaky animals. This one looked like a teenager-moose.

Besides Fiona crying non-stop the drive home it was a really really fun day trip.

SUNDAY

Another beautiful day for weather. After dinner we went outside and sat in the yard and played with the kids. And let them put stickers all over Fiona...

We were having fun until we killed the 2nd spider that was hanging out on Chris. (So far the only bad side about living in Colorado. The insects here are crazy. Time to call pest control.)

It was an amazing weekend and I was so sad when it ended.
ps: Darcy, we got some fun stuff planned for you!

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!!!