Colorado Getaway

My parents had a summer house built in Delores, Colorado last year. Kurt and I haven't had a chance to get up there until now. Last week we spent 8 days in that beautiful place. It was so relaxing. No schedules, no rules, no alarm clocks... We were in heaven. Not to mention having my mom there to cook 3 meals a day. I'm not used to that!

I think out of all of us, Bailee may have had the most fun. There are no fences to block her in and she had the run of the land. We definitely brought home a wore out dog in the end.

As for weather, we had a little bit of everything. It was warm and sunny when we got there, then windy, then rainy, then it hailed, and it even snowed on Saturday, then the sun came out again for the rest of the trip. Yes, that is snow in the picture. Since the ground was so wet from the rain the night before it didn't stick, but it sure was pretty. We were having such a hard time keeping all the dogs out of the mud during the week.

My parents have a 5 acre lot. This is up at the house overlooking the meadow below.

This is down in the meadow looking up at the front of the house.

This is the back of the house. (and Kurt standing by the area where they are putting in a 30 foot by 40 foot garage for the motorhome, pontoon boat and all the quads).

This is the view off to one side. Bailee just loved running through the field. On the other side is a pond, but I guess that picture didn't make it on here.

At the end of the day, this was Bailee's favorite spot... laying down in front of the door. And that's my parents' new puppy they got while we were up there for the week.

During the day we'd take the quads out w/ my dad and grandpa. There are a ton of deer and elk in the area and every year they shed their antlers. We'd hike through the brush looking for the antlers lying on the ground. While we were out one day I found this 5 point elk skull. My dad was so proud he hung it on the pole in the backyard for all to see. He was wishing he scored a find like that! He asked if I wanted to take it home with me. What would I do w/ antlers around my house? I don't think so. It's a much better fit on his gate!

This is the sign at the bottom of the road leading up to the house. My dad put a "deer crossing" sign there since just about every evening the deer come up right through his property. It was so neat to be sitting at the kitchen table and look out to spot deer in your yard.

Every night after dinner we'd get in the car and take a drive looking for deer that come out of the trees. Since there's no hunting in that area, they're not scared of the cars and don't run when we pull up. We were getting within 6 feet of them on the side of the road. This picture is dark, but it's a doe starting right at me (in the center). Not even joking, we'd see at least 50 to 100 deer every night, just a few miles from the house. And usually 5 or 10 of them would come right up in our property and we wouldn't even have to drive to see them.

This little waterfall is in the neighbor's property right behind my dad. We took the quads back there to let the dogs run and take a dip in the water.

This was such a beautiful stream winding through the country.

We of course couldn't keep the dogs out of the water. Especially ours. Bailee just loves to swim.

All in all, we had a wonderful time. Even when it rained us in for a couple days it was so nice just to be away. We got some reading done, got to take NAPS, woo hoo... Played games with my mom. It was so nice to be able to spend time in Colorado. I think after the baby is born and I'm not working we'll be able to take more of these trips. And with it only being about 7 hours away, it's not too bad!

Oh Baby!

Well, I am 12 weeks now! Yeay! We had our first ultrasound last week. And as many of you know, they were going to be looking for twins... but it was only one baby in there. It just has a lot of extra room to grow in there in the next 6 months!

Here is what a Baby Bucy looks like. I love this little profile :) I didn't think we were going to be able to see so many features this early on. It was great!

Here you can see the eye sockets and little mouth forming, and its little arm curled up by its face.

And this is just my favorite... the baby turned and was waving "hi mom" right to me!!!

The baby was sleeping when they first started the ultrasound (with both arms right up by its face). The ultrasound tech pushed on my belly a bit and got the little guy to wake up. And then it was moving all over the place. It was so amazing! It really made things seem real for me now. I knew I was pregnant, but seeing that little baby growing inside of me just put everything in place! I of course got a little teary eyed when I saw the baby. I cannot wait to be a mommy!

In 6 weeks we'll have another ultrasound and be able to tell if it's a boy or a girl. I'm thinking its a boy... Kurt has said boy all along... We shall see soon enough!

Happy Mother's Day!

Hope everyone had a happy Mother's Day. Kurt got the waffle maker out and made me waffles for breakfast for my first mother's day! And they were tasty!

We spent the afternoon at my brother's house.... and we had a houseful. It was me and Kurt, my brother, his girlfriend Heidi and their two kids, my mom and dad, my grandma and Heidi's parents. We ate a lot of good food, went swimming and just played all afternoon.

Bailee even got to go bye-bye. She loves riding in the car. There were actually 3 dogs that got to play together... ours, my brothers and my parents. When we have a party, we really have a party! Dogs and all :)

Here's my grandma and Tanner

These are the yummy steaks we grilled for dinner! If anyone went home hungry it was their own fault. There was a ton of food! (steak, twice baked potatoes, pasta salad, rolls, beans, veggies/dip, chips/dip, shrimp, cake). What more could you ask for? :)

This is my mom taking Tanner (my nephew) for a cruise in his car. He just loves that thing! (and that's Tanner's dog Shelby helping out)

Tanner in his hippo in the swimming pool. He was having a blast in the water. It was a little cold but he didn't seem to mind. He splashed around all afternoon until his little arms started to turn blue. Auntie Shannon was the one taking all the pictures and making sure to stay out of them!

Bailee taking a dip in the pool. We had all 3 dogs swimming with us. They were too funny. But hey, they were having fun too!

And after all that swimming, what's left to do but take a nap! That's hard work!

Here's Sage with her slip n slide.

Tanner got a kick out of it too!

And here's the little guy shoving his face with cake. He had to go in the bath after that one. It was everywhere!

All in all, we had a great day! Everybody will sleep good tonight, including me. Hope everyone else had a wonderful Mother's Day too!