People on our trip

Since Dave and his family all pretty much work together we had the pleasure of having some of my favorite people at the lodge with us! "Aunt" Kit and "cousin" Christy were my partners in crime for 4 days :) We ate breakfast together, shopped in town and ate meals together. We posed for pictures in front of the rapids of the Colorado river. Christy and I also had to stick our heads in the precious gingerbread men in front of a candy store. Aren't they just too cute??

We also visited the log cabin of the President of the company and that was super neat! I love log cabins and really enjoyed seeing the inside (sorry no pics) and the rustic decorations.

Grand Lake scenery

Here is the gorgeous scenery that I captured in town, outlooking the lodge, driving up in the mountains and riding around in the ATV. The Rocky Mountain National Park bordered our lodge and we saw moose all the time! I never saw any other wildlife but there was a black bear that employees had seen recently and deer around. The views were breathtaking!!!

Holy dessert, Batman!!

Cousin Cameron came over yesterday and went to the pool with us while Dave played paintball. We were close to Madisonville so we went to have dinner on the river. It was great and the boys loved waving to the passing boats. We ordered them dessert and were so surprised when this arrived...... It was seriously a foot high and was filled with ice cream on the inside. We all had a bite or two but there was tons left over :)

Happy Father's Day

We celebrated Father's Day by letting Dave sleep in this morning. It was a feat in itself since the boys were loudly playing at sunrise. I took them for donuts to keep the house quiet ;) The boys signed and decorated a card for Dave and sweet Theo wrote Dad on the envelope. We met Gigi and Dada for brunch and went outside to the patio to take some pictures. We called Papa this morning to wish him a happy day and can't wait to see Mimi later this week!

Pandamonium!

Theo and I fill our mornings at VBS at our church while Jack is at his camp. I was sad that they overlapped but it has been nice to only have one kid to keep track of at VBS. I'm one of the leaders in Theo's group and have a newfound respect for preschool teachers (not that I ever haven't!!!). There are 15 three and four year olds in our Panda group. We take the kids to a music session in the morning and then come back to our room for snack and play. The kids go outside to play and end up covered in sweat at 10 am! Gotta love summer. We take them to a craft session and then to a movie before going back to the classroom for dismissal. We are beat by the end of the day, mostly from the heat inside the building and outside.

Math and Science camp

Jack is spending all week at his school for Math and Science camp. They do fun math activities in the mornings (like learn about money and then earn and spend it) and science stuff after lunch. Jack's team is in the lead for points and they'll win candy at the end of the week if they stay at the top! Great motivator for kids :)

Here Jack is holding an outline of his body and the organs that they learned about today. Some of them fell off but he's holding his stomach (the paper towel roll and ziploc). I'm so glad he's having a great time AND learning new things. I was the science lover growing up and hope he will be too!

Mom's club luau

Friday night I went to my Mom's club annual banquet at a beach themed restaurant. I didn't feel like lugging the SLR and only snapped a few pictures (poor ones at that) on my phone. I had a great time and won the "Martha Stewart" award for being crafty. My prize was a bottle of wine ;)