Back to the mountains…

sorry for the unscheduled break in vacation posting – sometimes i just get too excited about other things and lose my train of thought for what seems like weeks…is this what ADD is like? Should I be concerned?

Anyway…the vacation…right… 

 
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK!!! and…on my birthday nonetheless. ( I just love the word nonetheless) 

What a great way to spend the day celebrating being born…with hiking through 2 feet of snow to see breathtaking scenery…
  

driving up skinny little roads to the top of mountains, and to have it start sleeting and eventually snowing at the top…(wishing i had a picture…mom…can you help me here?) 

and having your husband hike into nature to get you that perfect picture of elk, at the closeness you specified (“i want to see his nostrils, dear”).  

What a great birthday! Thanks to my fam for celebrating it with me! 

Tip Junkie is having a going dot com birthday bash!

check out the fun stuff going on at 
http://www.tipjunkie.com/! 

I found this giveaway today…and I’m in awe. 

I love the idea of having someplace to store all of my tiny little necessities!I also love the idea of storing all of my larger necessities – check out the website for these creations…and look at the workbox.

Woah is all I can say to that! Gimmie, Gimmie, I need, I need.

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you can enter the giveaway here…if you, too, must have one! 
http://homemadebyjill.blogspot.com/2009/06/giveaway-ez-view-desktop-from-original.html 

I have never seen a little girl get so excited about dancing…
OH MY GOODNESS.
She was hysterical to watch at this wedding dance…

I thought eventually she’d tire out, want to stop, even fall asleep…but nope, had to keep on dancing! She did sleep good that night, though. Perhaps we should have dance parties nightly!

The whole reason we chose Colorado for our vacation was that my cousin was getting married over Memorial Day weekend…so it was really chosen for us. Not that I’m complaining…the car ride was a bit extensive, but we had a great time, and who knows if we would have ever chosen to go on that long of a car ride without a little push.

While we were there, we thought we should take in some sights. We attempted to trek to Boulder Falls, but the trail had been closed due to falling rock. I suppose that is a good reason to close a trail. While I wished we’d gotten to see it closer up, the scenery around the area was still nice…and proved to be fine for a new family photo.

and it had a fun climbing rock…this is one of my favorite pictures of the whole trip.
They are so stinkin’ cute.

Ellie kept saying how she wanted to climb a mountain…a little creative photography helped her get there. Thanks, Dad.

On the way back down into Boulder, we stopped at the Boulder creek recreational trail and “hiked” a bit. Really, it was quite flat, so hiked may not be the appropriate term. We walked around and watched some guys climb a mountain…and took some cool pictures…and let Ellie touch the creek.

All she had to say was “brrr, that waters cold mama…”

Before I had the fancy camera, I didn’t really care much about flowers, now they just provide a challenge to me. Its fun to see what kind of pictures the camera can take.