Isabella

I have been working evenings for two weeks. It is a great situation for our family overall - the kids are being watched at our house, they are only with a babysitter for five hours a day (instead of 10 hours), Brett and I don't have to spend extra time tranporting them, and they get to nap at home. BUT ... I miss my family a lot. I'm not used to being away from them. Our family hasn't been together at all since I get home after the kids are asleep.

While I'm not home to tuck the kids into bed, I do go kiss them good-night when I get home. This is a picture of how Isabella was sleeping when I went to kiss her. She looked so sweet sleeping with all of those animals gathered around her.

Camping - Part 2

Camping in Rocky Mountain NP (part 1)

Isabella's birthday

Beaver Creek Xterra Mountain Bike Triathlon

Brett decided to attempt his first off-road Xterra triathlon. I am up for more of these type races because of the locations. This one was in Beaver Creek, Colorado around the ski resort. It was BEAUTIFUL. We drove up Friday night to Avon. We had a two room condo that worked out great.

Brett enjoyed this race and did well. It was fun to listen to him talk about the bike course and how different it is than a "normal' triathlon. The kids and I also had a great day.

A field of daisies

Bears! Oh my!

Brett and I have lived in Colorado for 15 years/14 years (respectively) and we had never seen a bear in the wild ... until last weekend. We were camping in Rocky Mountian National Park over the July 4th weekend. Friday evening Brett was cooking spaghetti for dinner. I was getting the tent & sleeping bags set-up. Orion and Isabella were climbing around on some rocks about 100 feet away. They came running back to the campsite telling Daddy that they saw a bear. Brett kind of dismissed them thinking they saw something else. But then ... he looked up and saw these two bears in climbing up the picnic table of the neighboring campsite which was only about 50 feet away. Brett yelled to the folks next to us to come help him scare the bears away. We chased after them making a lot of noise and the bears retreated into the hills. We definitely put away all of our food that night!