Part 3-Coming down from the mountain

There is more coming on this from the beginning of the trip I promise but here is what I have so far.

This car was parked outside the subway I stopped at in Aspen. I about fell out! Who owns this kind of car in Aspen I ask you? But it was gorgeous to look at, not gonna lie.

This was a little roadside fun I thought about partaking in till I thought about the drive over the mountain in wet clothes. There were places like this all up and down the mountain. People fly fishing, rafting, canoeing, anything you want to take part in.

I climbed in the river. To cool off for a while. It was a lot colder than I had anticipated.

This is one of the log cabins I scoped out for my brother in law Steve. He liked these a lot until I told him the price.

The mystery of water and the beutiful reflections it can create when calm.

No mom, I was not driving and taking pictures.

More beautiful rivers along the way

Look how beautiful and natural the water is

Took this for mom, the aspen's you love. Not a bad background either. :D

Leaving the mesa's

Beautiful river stop

Mom's high school picutre back round, you guys will know what I mean

Mesa, I cant remember what the finger looking things were called. UGH! But basically this was all formed from volcanoes. There are little spouts everywhere that are little mini wanna be volcanoes. Scary but beautiful.

This was after going through the mountain. I kind of got lost trying to find the buffalo that I always miss and found this!!!!! Oh yeah baby.

AND >>>>>>OH YEAH, the BUFFALO!!!!

This is Mr. Buffalo

This is baby

This is a distant cousin who felt the need to be photographed and last but not least

The whole family

The teenage son

A deer crossed my path as I was leaving the Buffalo Reserve

This is actually close to Denver where my uncle lives. It was so gorgeous there. The city is very very close but there is a lake just down the street from his house, a dog park and of course the mountains as a back drop. GORGEOUS!

I finally got to see my friend of a lifetime Trey. We had not seen each other in 13 years. We went to Boulder, ha ha, I think she says her husband called it the rice cake kind of people. You know my type. Art, coffee, living life and enjoying it ;) . We found this amazing little coffee shop that had hot chocolate chai latte's. Let me just say OMG! so good. If you are ever there you should stop by, it is by the big statue of the elk. Dont ask what street that was on. I lost track. They have a lot of ethniv shops, hand made clothes, soaps, and my personal favorite street performers.

Well anyway, we had a blast and vowed not to let it be so long next time between visits.
This is Trey,
So anyway, thank you to everyone who let me crash at their house on this journey. Thank you for the amazing tour of the mountains and mesa and hidden valley. Thank you for allowing me to be a part of the family and most of all thank you for strengthening my journey with God. Love you all.

For the Lands

Okay really this is for all of you but more so for Mrs. Teresa, Dale, Kota, and Shawn. Baby misses you immensely as do the resy of us. She said I should show you pics, so here ya go. :D

Rainy day go away come back another day...

Girls night at Kandi's aprtment. Dont look at the apartment ;) She was trying to lock me out of my bedroom and laughing and loving it.

She was trying to get to the perfume on my dresser. She had pulled out every drawer. It was too funny.

And just for you her shaking her booty :D

And more to come but here is her on a horse from yesterday's homecoming parade. Sorry it is sideways.

Hope things are getting better. The rain only lasts so long then the sun comes out and it is so much more beautiful than it was before. Praying for you.

Baby E's Summer Adventures Part I

The biggest horse in the world came to visit our little town and she got a first rate seat. Right up against the rails. These rails are usually about 8-10 feet tall and if you lok closely his but is above the rails. No he is not a clisedale. That is usually everyone's first question. He is in the same family of horse however.

Her next big event was the fire muster, it was suppsed to be after the fair in the pics you saw in the last set of blogs. They postponed it and just made it up, here are the pics from their games. They do things like shoot the keg across a line. It is basically tug of war in the sky with water hoses.

This year they had a mini me competition. Baby E of course took part. She was so not about the water hose. It terrified her. You can see it in her face if you look closely.

Then they did the water brigade . This is where they take water out of one bucket and throw it into or onto a builing, in this case a bucket. You will see the grown ups doing it later


It took her a couple of tries to get the hang of it. She is definitely into doing her own thing.

Then they do they body drag. They have a body dummy that for the grown ups ways 175 lbs. But for the little people it only had about 10 lbs and she kicked butt. She apparently had been practicing at the fire station while dad cleaned the machines.

Now its the big boys turns. Here is the water hose fight. They have to get dressed, get up unroll hoses, put them together and get in line to shoot the hose at the cone with a ball on top. Hit the ball off and you are good.

Here is the body drag as seen with the little kids.


Here's daddy in action.

Here is the water brigade.

Now here is the funniest thing you have ever seen. Baby E got to get a four wheeler. No kidding a kidie sized four wheeler. One of steve's friends had one in his garage for a long time it wasnt working so Steve tok it and fixed it up for her.

Watch out world she is battery operated and on 4 wheels!

Yes we know the hair is out of control, but she is helping daddy. Who has time for hair.

Here daddy let me hold this for you. No you are doing it wrong.

AND.......................

the birthday. Oh yeah second birthday. Grandpa bought balloons.

She chased them all over the house.

Mommy bought a cake, she can say cake and loves this one. She is a big fan of the tinkerbell

She had sparkling candles. They were supposed to be like sparklers but not so much.

Blowing out the candles was fun and she got it on the first try.

She actually stuck her fingers in it this year. Although she was looking around sheepishly because she was afraid someone would yell at her.

Then we cut her a piece and it was on! Hince the chocolate mustache. Which is another owrd she says and is very partial too. Toni trys to hide the chocolate in the fridge but she always finds it. She knows where it is and if Toni tells her that it isnt there she points to the second hiding spot.

Since yet again she didnt get really messy grandpa had to help out a little.
This is my favorite baby E face. Tell me what you think she is thinking here. :D

She is laughing her, she cant handle us busting up.

Until she doesnt think its so funny anymore.

And here is the end of the fun, licking the bottom of the tinkerbell to make sure she got all of the icing. She carried that thing around with her all day. We think she looks like tinkerbell. :D

Well more to come............................