We had to go back to my hometown, because of a death in the family (more on that in another post), so we took a break from all the chaos, and decided to take some pictures of Tammy’s town she grew up in.  Scott had never been inside a State Capitol Building, so we took…

The kids got to participate in the Meet The Team Watermelon Bust during Welcome week at SUU.  All the SUU football players were there, and the kids had a great time.  They got to play lots of games, and eat watermelon.  The kids are both part of the SUU Thunderkids program, so they got a…

After San Francisco, we headed to Santa Cruz where we had a room for the night.  The next morning, we walked down to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.  We all had so much fun there, and spent the whole day, and up to 8pm at night there.  The kids had so much fun playing on…

In July, we decided to take a little trip to San Francisco.  Scott had been, but the kids and I hadn’t, so we thought we’d take a trip, and visit family in Southern California, along the way. I had some things I definitely wanted to see…the Bay Bridge, Golden Gate Bridge, and Alcatraz.  I really…

We loved Arches National Park..unfortunately, being June when we visited, it was very hot!  Over 100 degrees on the day we were here.  We couldn’t do a lot of the longer trails, because of the heat factor.  We managed to do some hiking, but we want to come back during a cooler month to do…

After a short ride from Durango to Mesa Verde, we visited the Visitor Center to buy our ticked for a tour. We chose to do the Cliff Palace tour, because we weren’t sure if Cole could make it on the advanced strenuous Balcony House. After doing Cliff Palace, I think he could have done Balcony…

Wednesday, June 18th – Long Day of Driving Today was a long day of driving… We drove from Mount Rushmore to Colorado Springs… It was a very long day in the car…we did make it to the hotel a bit early, so the kids had plenty of chance to swim in the nice heated pool….

We wanted to visit Sylvan Lake, because we saw it in a movie (see below), and it was so beautiful. We inadvertently hiked the Lake trail, around Sylvan Lake, and it was beautiful from all angles. The kids especially loved crossing the water to the dam to throw sticks down the waterfall. The water was…