Summer in a Nutshell

Our Summer, as usual, has flown by. I will try to recap with a couple pictures and dialogue. I did not use my good camera all summer so most of these pics are off my phone and are not good. I have decided to take out my good camera and use it more often.

We did all the basic summer stuff. Boys did scout camp. Brenna went to a camp in the mountains for a week by herself. Swim lessons, swimming, jumping on trampoline, playdates, and almost daily baking were included. Some of the special things that happened, my sister Laura and her family came for a couple days-fun cousin play, Todd's sister Amy and her family came for a week, I cooked and baked a lot for them and we had so much fun together. Following this visit, Garret got to drive home with them and visit Arizona for the first time by himself. He even flew home alone. It was a good week for everyone!! My best friend Donna dropped in overnight and she and I had a wonderful time the next day shopping in a little town nearby. My birthmom, Joyce came by for 3 days on her way to the midwest to see family. We had a delightful time together. Todd had two seperate weeks off this summer so we took a trip to Canon City and another to Steamboat Springs. A few pictures follow.

This picture is in Steamboat. We lovesd it there, it's really a cowtown so Regan wanted a cowgirl hat. We went to a rodeo, hiked, and played in the river.
This is the kids on a rock, they love to climb rocks. We had so much fine hiking to waterfalls and down big mountains.
Steamboat has an Alpine Slide which we did even though I think it's too expensive. The kids had a fun time and got faster on the second time.
In June we decided to take a short trip to Canon City, it's about an our southeast of the springs and has the Royal Gorge Bridge there. We road the train through the royal and it was beautiful!
In Canon City we found a cute movie theatre that was quite old and had the best popcorn. Our second day we went rafting on the Arkansas River. The kids thought they were in heaven. We had to wear wetsuits and rainjackets because the water was still 47 degrees. Pretty cold but the kids had so much fun!
All in all we had a great summer! We are always amazed at how much fun we had over the summer. Garret thinks he's going to make his trip to Arizona next summer as well. That's good because I will NEVER go to AZ in the summer.