Two Weeks down.....

Two weeks of school are now officially DONE!! Yeah! We are off to a great start! The kids all seem to really like their teachers and their classes....whew....

And....I know that it is sooo sad that I am just now getting around to posting more pictures from our Colorado trip this summer! But....alas....I am just one tired Mama and there are not enough hours in the day some days! But here goes.....after the longest car ride in history.....leaving the house (Allie and Me) at 745 am....we arrived in Texline around 2am Sunday and stayed the (rest of) the night with Nana and Grandpa. We headed out on the rest of the way to Colorado around 11am. What a nightmare that drive was! It took us almost 4 hours to travel about 50 miles on the highway we needed to travel on in Colorado due to major road construction and later a truck that had been totally engulfed in flames and burned to the ground. Ugh! When we arrived in a small town (can't remember the name now.....oops) about an hour from Crested Butte...We stopped at Walmart because Holley had a headache and Allie was starting to complain of a runny nose. I bought a ton of medicine and decided to throw a thermometer in the mix "just in case". We got to the car and I decided to take Allie's temp because she was a bit "whiny"...and she was running 102! So I pumped her and Holley full of meds and we continued on our way. We arrived at the house around 9pm!!! Wow!! SUPER LONG DAY!! The rest of the family was there and dinner was just coming off the grill courtesy of my brother-in-law, John. It was sure yummy! But that was no surprise! He makes the yummiest meals all the time! The next day we headed out and got our fishing licenses for the week and we went to the Spring Creek Reservoir to fish.....Holley caught the very first fish of the trip!!!

Holley fishing!

Poppy and Rachel (my precious niece!) If you look closely you will see Macie in the blue in the background standing with my sister MA...she did not particularly like fishing so I did not get any pics of her actually fishing.

Aunt Perry taught Holley and Allie proper fly fishing techniques!

Perry teaching Holley to cast....

Poppy put together every rod and reel....

Scott fishing....

Scott and my nephew Stephen....Scott loved having another boy around!

The next day, the boys...errr...men....headed out for the boys trip leaving the girls to do what we do best....shop and have a night on the town. We went to a yummy pizza place in Crested Butte (shhhh.....don't tell my trainer!) and then we had ice cream!!! We did go fishing again every day too. On the last day we went to the base of Mt. Crested Butte and had a blast watching the kids rock climb, ice skate and jump on the bungee trampoline....more pics to come .....Stay tuned, S