Playing Catch Up

It has been too long...I have been waiting for more pictures of our summer adventure to Idaho and have decided it's old news and it's definitely well past time to move on.

So here's a few highlights of what I should have posted over the last few months...

We got our family pictures taken at the end of May and finally got them hanging a few months later...I've been behind on just about everything...Evelyn was a crazy woman and wouldn't hold still.  It made getting an 18 month picture quite difficult. But despite her best efforts we were able to get a few good shots!

 

 

 

 

Evelyn is still as crazy as always.  This is her showing off her meat thermometer.  Her favorite of my kitchen tools.  She's also a snazzy dresser!  She insisted on wearing this dress over her pj's.

Another camping excursion.  This was at Silver Jack Resivor. It's a beautiful little area about an hour from our house.  As you can see Evelyn is just as enamored with fire as her father.  She talks daily about building fires and even tried to stack the sticks I was using for a craft today.

We took a short family vacation to Mesa Verde National Park over Labor Day weekend.  It was really amazing!  The people who lived in these cliff dwellings only accessed them from climbing in and out with hand and foot holds to the mesa above.  It's pretty amazing when you think about the number of people living in them and the supplies that had to be gathered and lowered into the dwellings from above. 

This is the largest of the dwellings known as Cliff Palace.  We were able to go on a ranger guided tour and learned many neat facts about the people who lived here and how they came to do so.  We saw lots of wildlife while we were there including white tail deer, coyotes, and a black bear which was only about 3 feet from my rolled up passenger side window! It's a great place to visit if you have a few days and you can stop by to see us on your way there and back!

Fall in Colorado is an amazing thing.  The changing of the colors is always a big deal and this year didn't disappoint.  Jesse, Evelyn, and I went to the Crested Butte area at the beginning of October for a drive and hike through the mountains. The colors were breath taking and a breeze blew falling leaves into this picture just as I snapped it.

 

The best part of a long hike is the quiet on the way home.  She didn't last 10 minutes!

Of course our most exciting change has been finding out we are expecting a little boy in March!  Evelyn carries her copy of the ultrasound picture around talking about her "tiny baby brother".  I don't know if she really gets it yet, but it's cute none the less!