Picnic and Water Fun

Summer is almost over, so we're trying to enjoy our days outside while we can. Today we had a picnic in the park by the Mount Timpanogos Temple. Kylee is in a stage where she REFUSES to look at the camera and smile. That should make 2 year old pictures fun this year. To make it worse, she wanted to hold my hand all around the park, so it was next to impossible to get a picture of her.






We've spent a lot of time this summer on the slip n slide and blow up pool in the backyard. I swear I have a bunch of pictures of the boys playing, but I can't find the camera with those pictures. So for now you'll just have to enjoy this cute gal with her pigtails.

Boulder

I took a 3 day weekend trip to Boulder, Colorado a few weeks ago to visit my brother Eric and his wife Lara. Eric is going to school at University of Colorado Boulder to get his Phd, so we don't get to see them too often. I left all 3 kids home with Adam. The trip was all his idea too; what a great dad and husband!
Here we are on Pearl Street in Boulder. We saw lots of fun shops and lots and lots of hippies. Oh, and a few marijuana shops. Those crazy UC Boulder kids.



A view of Boulder from the mountains above


The next day we spent driving through Rocky Mountain National Park. Now, I live in Utah surrounded by mountains every day, but these mountains were above and beyond what I'm used to in Utah. It was gorgeous!










We saw sooooo many wild animals during our drive through Rocky Mountain National Park and in Estes Park. We got right up next two quite a few HUGE elk, little animals called marmots, and lots of others, but the coolest animals we saw was this whole huge family of beavers. Some crazy lady on the street of Estes Park stopped us and said, "Oh! You have to go see the beavers!!!!!" We thought she was strange, but we followed her directions and found the most amazing stream that was home to at least a dozen beavers. We saw them chewing on trees, swimming, eating, making their dam, etc. One of them got just a foot away from me. My camera battery had died by this point in the trip, but I got tons of pictures on my iphone. Which haven't been transfered to the computer yet, so sorry. But it was pretty neat.