Minturns Park

We always drive by and finally stopped to check out the park in Minturn. Its super nice and right along the river.

Lets Go Bowling

The babe had a great evening at the bowling alley, completing 5 frames on her own and a couple more balls later on in the second game.

Parktime

Just a couple fun pics from the big kid park in town.

Steamboat (The Water Portion)

The Olde Town Hot Springs is an amazing place to take your kids. The babe loved this place.

Getting daring.
She's in there somewhere.





She had to get one last swim in at the hotel before bedtime, or sometime thereafter.

Steamboat

Happy Birthday Mom!! Luckily we remembered on the actual day. We took a short family vacation up to Steamboat to celebrate. It went great and we all had a wonderful time. We were able to escape the rain that seemed to cover the entire state that day. The alpine slide was a hit with Granola, but she was easily distracted from that with the nearby park. After some lunch we headed to the Town Hot Springs. To say Granola had a great time would be an understatement. We even had some time to soak and relax.

Picnics

Granola has really been enjoying picnics this summer. We've had them at the park, on the porch, and most recently in her playhouse.

Movie Star

Ok, so I'm noticing I'm a few hundred pictures behind. We'll see how much I can catch up, it may be scattered over the next few days. Here are a few pics of Granola being a "movie star."

Boom Days

We headed downtown Saturday and Sunday for some Boom Days activities. Granola's favorite was the train ride even if the pictures show otherwise. She was also very excited to pet some burrows and llamas.
Thats Granola at the back. She even buckled her own seat belt.
Hmmmmm.

Fishin

The babe got her first fishing pole this summer. We've gotten out a couple times and she seems to enjoy it. These pictures are off the phone, so the quality may be lacking.

Stars

In an effort to stay up late enough to watch the meteor shower tonight, I will try to catch up on the blog. We'll see. Here's a couple shots of the new haircut. It's filled in since these pictures were taken.

What a Week

Wow, a bunch of firsts for the babe this past week. We started off the week bowling. Granola made it through 5 whole frames, not bad. She picked a spare for dad to help him with a career high 199.
Later that week we headed to Copper Mt. and rode the bumper boats. Granola loved being able to drive and squirt " water" the flowers around the pond. When she drove we just spun in circles.
To finish off the week we took Grandpa Ron for a ride on the Leadville train. We all had a great time. I will try to post pictures of all the fun the rest of this week. Until then here are some teasers.
Oh, mom gave the babe her first haircut, just to get the hair out of her face.

Camping

We decided to go camping at Hermit Pass this past week. It was our second go round this summer. The trip went great other than the fact Granola caught her friends "allergies" and slept poorly again. We will have a full night of sleep camping once this summer. Our spot was amazing with numerous small streams running through it that Granola could play in.

The falls were a 30 yd hike from our camp spot.


Wild flowers were abundant.
Blowing out her "cake candles"

More Aunt Nancy

Saying good bye.
1st time drinking from a fountain.

1st real lift ride up Copper.