Estes Park and Rocky Mt. National Park

Amy(Bevin's sister) came to visit us this past week.  We had lots of stuff planned and had a very busy and fun week!!!!

First we went to Estes Park and Rocky Mt. National Park. 

This is the Stanley Hotel, where we stayed.  It is know for being that place that Stephen King was staying at and was inspired to write The Shining.  They play The Shining over and over in your rooms!  It is supposed to be a pretty spooky and haunted place!

The room that Stephen King stayed in.  Since then many other famous people have stayed in this room and it is booked out up to 6 months in advance!

We spent the day exploring Rocky Mountain National Park.  We saw a waterfall, elk, big horn sheep, turkeys and lots of beautiful views! 

We also stopped at the visitors center and watched a film about the park and Carter got a cute Eagle hand puppet. (no pic)

We ate at two really yummy places in Estes Park.  One BBQ place and another was a sandwhich/pizza place.  We also got some yummy chocolate and fudge!

If you have seen the movie The Shining then I guess you will understand this video of Carter!!!!!:)

All About Avery

 I just love this little girl!  She is at such a fun age and has so much personality:)

She was having fun making faces....

 Doing "Touchdown"!

 Just being cute....

 And being a little crazy!

 Loves to "help" me with the laundry by throwing everything out of the basket.

 Love her piggy tails and her cute sweater dress from Gma Cox

 I think she was fed up with all the pics:)  I just can't help it.  She is just too cute! 

 I had to remove the decor from the bottom shelf and this became one her new fav places to play.  But it took her a while to figure out how to get down.

Green

I was a slacker and did not take many pics but we had a fun St.Patty's Day!  At the beginning of the week the Leprechauns started leaving little presents for Carter.  Every morning he was so excited to see what they had left:)  We made some yummy green chocolate popcorn, and decorated shamrock sugar cookies!

 Avery loves doing her "cheese" face

 Carter has the hardest time looking right at the camera!

 We had green shamrock pancakes and green milk:)

 Carter's favorite color is green so he loved St. Patrick's Day! 

So Lucky to be their mommy!

Red Rock

Last Saturday we went exploring again.  We drove around for a bit but finally ended up at Red Rock.  There is a really cool outdoor ampitheatre among all these really big red rocks. (very similar to Tuachaun in Utah)  They have concerts there in the summer and many well known people have played there.  After we climbed about 500 stairs to the top, we realized there was parking at the top!  Oh well, Carter did great and walked all the stairs himself.  Bev got a good workout and carried Avery:)  Can't wait to go back and see a performance there!!!!!

Boulder, Colorado

I am not doing so great with my goal of blogging once a week:(  I will do better.

On Saturday we decided to take a drive out to Boulder.  Just for fun.  It was about an hour drive and of course both the kids fell asleep in the car.

When we got to Boulder we drove up a canyon to Boulder Falls.  There was just a short climb up to the falls.

 

  Then we drove to Historic Downtown Boulder and ate lunch at Old Chicago Pizza.

 It was a fun family day!

Superbowl

Great Superbowl.  Great half time show.  Great food.  Great friends. 

Maggie gives it the thumbs up!

 Navy liked my Rice Krispie Footballs:)

 Wow!  Poor Avery was sick and super grumpy.  This is right before she passed out after whining almost the whole game:(  Poor thing.