Colorado New Year's

After our whirlwind trip to Wyoming, we spent the rest of the time in Colorado with my parents. We had a fantastic turkey dinner the day after Christmas at Lindsey's. We then took Damion up to Buena Vista for a few days to spend time with his cousins and us. Lindsey and Joe met us for New Year's. It ended up being a great vacation and much needed break from reality.

Dinner and presents at Lindsey and Joe's

It was cold in Wyoming

Yes, Deer, I'll have some coffee

Swimming in Salida

Cuddling Valentino, the clinic cat

Pete loving on Jax

Papa and Maddy petting Fuzz

Pepper tolerating Jaxson

Pepper wants love, too.

Pete has a fascination with heads.

Pepper and Pandora-BFFs

Opening Presents-Jax was totally into helping rip at the paper

Putting together a Lego Shopkins toy

Because there weren't any other chargers they could find.

Because these two always have killer dance parties.

Dickens catching sunrays

The snow shoe excursion was fun. Although we didn't hike the full 5 mile trip, we did have fun. This was Damion's first snowshoe adventure. He fell---a lot. It was entertaining to watch the two of them fall, laugh, try to get up, nearly roll down hill to the frozen lake. While Brad and I wanted to keep going forward, Maddy and Damion wanted to stop and Jaxson started to scream and cry, making us cut our adventure short. It was beautiful, regardless.

Bundle up

Natural Beer Cozy

Falling midtrail

Once they got the hang of it, the hike out was easy

Helping each other up

Up in the air

Fence line

Taking a break

Dropping down at the end

At the start

Snowshoe excursion aftermath

Near Independence Pass, CO

Pepper wasn't waiting for them to clear the path

Beautiful day for snowshoeing

Exhausted

The rest of the trip we enjoyed watching a couple of movie's on New Year's Eve. Brad and I explored a bit more with our kids Buena Vista and our little photographer took some pics of the area as we explored. We had a blast and Maddy and I are looking forward to our annual summer trip.

Watching a movie

Block eyes

New Year Day cuddles

Kisses from Grandma

Lazy New Year's Morning

HUddled

Crawling across Papa

Trying to snag Grandma's jewelry

Making faces

Grandkids cuddles

Cousin & Sibling Love

Chillin' with Aunt Lindsey

Taking in the view at the River

Ornaments

Little photographer

Snapping a shot

Checking out the tree

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