Colorado Vacation Part 2

 The next couple of days we all took it easy around the cabin in Rico.  The boys went fly fishing everyday for a couple hours and we played with the kiddos.  The Vandergriff's, Debbie, Gary, and Travis, got into town and the kids LOVED spending time with them.  Griffin told me many times that Travis is his best friend.

Loved our lazy mornings around the cabin, snuggling with my babies

Griff and Mimi making raspberry pancakes

 Ella in the new addition upstairs.  My parents added on a bunk room/playroom for the kids and they both LOVED playing up there

 Griffin on one of our many hikes

 Miss Ella needed a lift from Mimi

 We love playing Yatzi at night and Griffin loved rolling and writing down his point :)

 These two are really becoming best buddies, here they are sharing the iPad (usually a source of contention)

 Ella strolling through town

 One of our favorite things to do is to drive up the mountain to Dunton meadows and hunt for mushrooms and have a cookout.  The next few are from our night up there

 Griff with his best buddy Trav

 Mimi and Aunt Debbie taught Griffin about finding good mushrooms and the bad ones. The rule of thumb is that if they have gills underneath, they are poisonous.  Griff caught on and loved saying "Gills...GO ON!"

 Love my little family

 Ella and her handsome daddy ;)

 These two loved chasing each other down the road

Rico 2012- Part 1

 On August 15th, we packed our bags and headed for the Rockies for our annual summer vacation with my family.  This year was extra special because over the past 3 years our cabin has been completely remodeled and it's finally finished.  It went from being a tiny miners cabin, to a beautiful, livable, perfect for grandkids house!  We were blown away and so thankful to my parents for their time, money, and hard work in making this dream a reality.
Our flight left Houston at 5:45 am, so we woke the kids up and left the house at 3 am, ouch!  They both did AMAZING on both flights and the 1.5 drive to Rico.  We were there by 9:15am so it really gave us an extra day!  My Aunt Annie and Uncle Mark had been there helping my parents so we overlapped a couple days.  They are so good with Griff and Ella and we had a lot of fun with them!  Here are a few pics from our first couple days.

The first morning it was 36 degrees when we got up...brrrrr

The town has a great playground and we took the kids to play there almost everyday.  

We did some work leveling the backyard to help with drainage and these two had fun in the wheel barrow

Griff on the new front deck showing off the new paint job!

Ella loved playing rocks with Great Aunt Annie

Eating lasagna fireside...pretty nice!

Griff and Mimi roasted marsh mellows and made smores

This is right behind our cabin...so beautiful.  Mark and Ann took Ella for a stroller ride and decided to four wheel drive a bit