Some Mountain fun

Sorry it has been quite a while since my last post, but I haven't been very motivated to do much of anything...so anyway....

My sister-in-law came over from Denver, with her family, to pick up the camper trailer only to discover that they needed to do some additional things to their Pilot before they could haul it up over a few mountain passes. So with the extra day to spend with them we decided to do some ATV riding up at Ouray. What fun! Here are some snapshots of the beautiful mountain views.

Snow on the ridgeline of the mountain near Red Mountain Pass

Whats left of an avalance on the drive up to Yankee Boy Basin

One of the many waterfalls

Beautiful morning...just a bit of haze

Nice beautiful blue skies...no clouds in sight

the kids loved the drive especially this part...well for the most part the actual four wheeling Brett didn't care for at all ~ sorry no pictures of that - my camera ran out of batteries :(

my niece Kelsey

Beautiful...we are almost above timberline

we loved this waterfall

the water nice and cold...wouldn't want to be in it

my favorite picture

What we drove...actually ours is already parked...this is Charissa, Jay and the girls

Charissa and I

Jes and I

And of course we had to stop and check out the water fall from the highway on our way home

We found our rainbow but not our pot of gold :(

Wishing we had more time to spend together but am looking forward to going to Denver/Fort Collins for some major birthday parties at the end of July!!!!!

A new year

Sorry all for not posting in quite some time. Time just seems to go by to fast for me. As a matter of fact we are already 18 days into a new year YIKES! Since it is a new year I have decided that I will TRY to keep my blog updated more often...TRY is the operative word LOL!

Just thought I would post some pictures from our Christmas Break that we spent with Bryan's family. It was a hard Christmas for me because I was missing the two very special people in my life but I made it through. Here are some pictures that i took from my new camera the kids got for me - A brand new spankin digital Canon XSi 12 mega pixels - now that a very sweet gift!

BTW most of these pictures are candid shots so bear with me-hope you enjoy

Brett trying to stay serious

My nieces Kelsey and Dani

brothers

Bryan's dad - Grandpa looking great it was great to see him!

Kelsey with grandpa

Cody and his new present - an ipod touch

my niece Evan

Celeste-Bryan's sister

Tony-Celeste's husband

my nieces Dani and Ashley (sisters)

Charissa-Bryan's sister with Snicks

Jay-Charissa's husband

Jes and Dani

The gifts for Christmas Bingo

Grandma explaning Christmas Bingo (sorry the picture got blurry I guess I moved the camera)

Cousins - Jes, Evan, Ashley, Dani on the floor by Jes is Abby and Kelsey

Celeste, Grandma and Tony discussing an answer written on the bingo sheet

Jay - still trying to get a good picture of him - he avoided looking at the camera all the time

The cousins just hanging having fun!

And last one of my most favorite pictures - cool huh?