Back to reality...

We just got back from an amazing vacation in Colorado. It was such a great week filled with adventures. This week, we are doing a million and three loads of laundry, getting groceries, mowing, cleaning, etc plus Captain C started football camp to prep him for playing this fall. He's loving it but we are tired!

I will be back to posting normally again soon. I promise. In the mean time, here are some highs and lows of our vacation. I have about 200 pictures that I will try to get back to adding soon.

Some highlights of our week:

• 70 mile ATV rides up over Haggerman Pass
• our awesome guide, who took Terrific T with him and kept guiding us even with a flat
• snow ball fights
• 9 miles of white water rafting through Browns Caynon
• fishing
• grandparents
• fires
• waterfalls
• hiking
• collecting pyrite and convincing each other it's real gold
• skinny dipping in a freezing creek(only one can claim to have done this...no names)
• rainbows
• hummingbirds
• All you can eat ice cream for $1.50 (bring your own bowl and spoon)
• s'mores
• horseback riding through the mountains
• gorgeous weather 
• souvenir shopping
• date night in town for me and Big Daddy midweek with the best steak dinner I've had in a long time
• running into friends from church in the tiny town we were staying in!
• windmills!

Some not so highlights of our week:

• 22 hours of driving round trip
• getting rained and hailed on while on the ATV ride - sooooo cold - the guide told us to leave him behind since he was slowing us down so I then had T and P on with me. Snug and cold.
• 3 nose bleeds
• 1 puking kid (motion sickness?? it was after those 8 hours on the 4 wheelers)
• 1 passing out kid (need to get her in for that still to see what that was all about)
• more mosquitoes than you can imagine
• attacks of the killer swallows who did NOT want Wondermutt pooping on the petwalk trail that was near their nest! (OK, truthfully, when it wasn't happening to me, this was a highlight to watch. These tiny birds were vicious and scary and hilarious to video!)
• Oh and our credit card was canceled mid week for some suspicious charges from June 22! Nice timing.

As you can see, the good far outweighed the bad and we had a fantastic week full of wonderful memories of our time together.  I love my family so much and love getting to spend time away together with them.