Vacation Recap

Ahhh...we arrived home from Estes Park this afternoon. It's good to be home, but we already miss the lovely mountains and the peace that comes at vacation. Although, I will say that we are all looking forward to a good night's sleep in our own beds.

This week we saw several birds including Stellar's Jays, Loggerhead Shrikes, Red-winged Black Birds, Hummingbirds as well as some others that we couldn't identify because they were too fast for us to get a good look at. We also saw several elk, a beaver, marmot, pika, chipmunks galore and a few other rodents that we weren't that interested in finding names for. We fished almost every day and finally caught some Thursday morning after dragging ourselves out of bed at 5:00 am. It was worth it all to see Aaron and Nate pull in their first fish of the week...kind of. ;-)

We did our longest hike yet with the kids. We hiked from Bear Lake, past Nymph Lake and onto Dream Lake, a total of 2.2 miles round trip. I was pretty proud of our little ones. They worked hard and we had a great time.

Here's some of my favorites pictures of the week: