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Summer Catch Up

 Summer flew by too fast. Monday is back to school seems excited about her new school this year. Hopefully she can keep that "school is fun and exciting feeling" and not get the "back to prison" feeling that I get this time of year. Here are some picks of the highlights of our summer.
We went to Colorado over 4th of July weekend and stayed two weeks. We celebrated the 4th in Colorado Springs. Maddy had fun playing with her cousins and making s'mores. We got the girls glo stick since we couldn't have any type of fireworks. They had a lot of fun with those, including using them to sword fight.


 Concert on the lawn by Granna. Looks like it was good.
 We went to the Garden of the Gods trading post for lunch with my parents. That's always a very relaxing and enjoyable activity. Grandad bought Maddy a bucket of rocks to put through the sluice they have there.

 We did lots of hiking. We got rained on one day and ended up looking like drowned rats. Maddy kept falling asleep on the hikes. Since the trails were pretty rough, Aaron ended up giving her shoulder rides. He had arms and shoulders of steel after a couple of days of that.


 We also spent some time with Aaron's family. Maddy got to ride Papa's horse, Come Along. She wasn't too sure about it.
 Some of the family stayed in a motel in Montrose so we got to do lots of swimming at the pool.
 We also got to see our brand new nephew, Dustin.

 On our way home, we stopped for the night at Flettcher Ranch. Grandma Fletcher has chickens now so Maddy enjoyed feeding them. She had so much fun she wanted to stay another night. We also stopped at Capulin Monument and hiked around the volcano cone there. That was a really fun stop. Maddy did the Junior Ranger program and got her junior ranger badge at the end of the hike.
 Beautiful New Mexico sky.


 Bottom of the cone
 Maddy needs a bang trim.
 After we got home from Colorado we spent a week working VBS at our church and then took off for my family reunion. 3 full days of non-stop craziness. We had 9 of the 11 great grandkids there. Grandpa kept them busy with treasure hunts, Nan and Billy provided a pinata, and the kids had fun playing in the water with water guns and eating popsicles. Maddy was in heaven with all the kids to play with. We had our reunion in Texas for the first time ever this year.


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bee said…
We enjoyed all the time we got to spend with you. It was a FUN summer.
August 24, 2013 at 5:53 PM
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