El Dorado State Park adventure!

Last Saturday we decided to get out and enjoy the mountains! We drove only 35 minutes to this fabulous state park. It's known for its rock climbing, so we we were able to watch many rock climbers on their treks to the top of these boulders - truly amazing to watch! The kids loved running up the trail, which at times put their mom into a panic as I could picture them falling off the side of the trail into the rocks! Everyone survived, enjoyed the fresh air, and had a wonderful time in the great outdoors!

We packed a picnic lunch and ate it half way (only about .5 miles each way) - we tried to teach the kids trail and hiking etiquette - don't know how much they'll retain, but it was fun to try. We saw some prickly pear cactus and a large variety of wildflowers - very beautiful country. We're excited to get out more to explore Colorado!

Waiting to start our hike - so much fun to climb and sit on rocks!

Climbing up to the trailhead - Drew was in the backpack for a total of about 10 minutes!

There are 2 rock climbers in this picture - the one in the lower right-hand corner is just above the white part of the rock and the other is in the middle left-hand section straight below the trees. Crazy!! Both are wearing white shirts - hopefully you can spot them!

Mamma Mia!

This week I went with a group of 10 incredibly fun and fabulous women to see the musical, Mamma Mia! It was so much fun - a great musical production. We went to a delicious Italian restaurant before the show, walked downtown to the theater (my first time in the city) and then enjoyed the show together - laughing, singing along and dancing to ABBA! If you have a chance, go see it! I took the place of a friend who came down with strep that morning, so I was lucky enough to have a good husband and neighbor to take care of the kids so I could go last minute :)

Tagged, I'm it!

Since I'm new to the blogging world, I have not yet been "it", so here is my response to Loni's tag!

1) What was I doing 10 years ago? 10 years ago found me living in Seattle with my 2 favorite "E" people of all time - Ericka & Erin! :) It was the summer before my senior year at the Univ. of WA, so I was enjoying my summer working with Ericka in the billing dept. of an orthopedic surgeon's office. We "worked" on the Eastside of Lake Washington and thoroughly enjoyed our commutes rocking out to the Indigo Girls & Pat Benatar. We spent our evenings & weekends at the Ranch house, in parks, kayaking, shopping, BBQs on the beach and all of the other incredibly fun things to do during the summer in Seattle. Okay, enough remembering or I may start to tear up wishing for just a few of those "golden" days to return :)

2) What are 5 things on my to-do list for today (not in any particular order): Buy foundation, buy baby gift for Adyson's teacher, find a babysitter so I can go to Mamma Mia (last minute) with some girlfriends, figure out what to wear tonight :), find the library books that are due tomorrow (wherever they may be?)

3) Snacks I enjoy: Peanut M&Ms, Cherry Pepsi, cookies - any kind!, cheese & crackers, ice cream - Rocky Road being my current favorite!

4) Things I would do if I were a billionaire: Pay off debt, save for future, donate, donate, donate, take my entire family on an awesome trip, take my girlfriends on an awesome trip, donate some more :)

5) Places I have lived: Washington, Utah, Idaho, Colorado

6) 6 peeps I wanna know more about: Even if you're not a blogger and you're reading this you can always return the tag in an e-mail to me :) I thought this was a fun way to get to know a little more about people without too many questions to answer - really, you don't have to think THAT hard :) Okay, so the 6 people are: Ashley, Katy, Celeste, Margaret, Ericka & Melanie - Oh wait, only one of you has a blog, so that means you either have to e-mail me or START A BLOG!!!! :) Tag, you're it!