Saturday, August 17, 2013

Colorado Part II

For our second week in Breck, Christina and her family joined us for even more fun.  Gondola rides, hikes, crepes, swimming in the river, meals together, fishing, Fun Park, panning for gold, bowling, stories, movies, stick sword fights, and more!


 Dan and I out at dinner with Christina, Brett, and kids 5 and up!
 


The boys took their tradition hike up to the lakes where Uncle Dan had a swim in the snow melt waters.

Brett and Dan took off hiking one morning, leaving trails behind, and climbed up a glacier to the ridge of a mountain.  Brett fished along the way (in the mountain-man pic below, Brett is fishing with a cigar in his mouth!).
 

Christina and I kept are hikes closer to the 9,000 foot elevation level!  
 We took the kids bowling one evening.  
 It was the Westcott's first trip to the mine.  Thanks to the Long's for showing us all the fun stuff.
 Matthew earned a badge (okay, we don't really have badges) this trip by swimming the river.
 

 We spent a day at the Peak 8 Fun Park 
 The kids tried on hats at the historic park in Frisco.


 Relaxing with our sitter, Helen 
 Look what the clean mountain air did to our facial hair!
 My sister and me.  
 Thanks for the fun trip together.

It's tradition.

Thursday, August 8, 2013

Colorado Part I

We took our annual trip to the mountains, again to Breckenridge, Colorado.  We had such a wonderful time.  The weather was fantastic, and the change of scenery was therapeutic for me!

Ben brought Grant and Devin to hang out with us for a long weekend.  We stayed in this cozy cabin nestled in the woods up on the mountain.  It was a very short walk from our cabin to the gondola, which took us on a ride down to town and the river.






I brought the kids to the historic park in Frisco to check out the model train and play in the old cabins.






Cousin Grant loves trains, so we brought him to see the old snow plow trains on display in Breck.


Of course we took lots of gondola rides!

Our sweetest babysitter, Helen, came with us and made life a million times easier!
We even went out for a nice brunch.  


The river was cold but fun.