OCTOBER- Fall Fun!

We found a great deal on a train table on Craigslist.com. We decided to get it early so Santa can bring more tracks and trains for Christmas and Birthday. It has been one of the best toys we purchased. They love to build on it and drive cars on it.








































































We went to Estes
park for a weekend to see the Elk and the fall Aspens in the National Park. Henry has been particularly silly lately and we captured a few of his antics at breakfast. He cleans up nicely too! They both enjoyed the little kitchen in the condo and 'cooking'.









































































































We went to Upper Beaver Meadows to hike. It's a very easy and beautiful hike. Just
perfect for my first trek since April! It was about 50 degrees and we could smell campfires from the campgrounds- we are ready to start acquiring our own camping supplies!



































































The boys got to do a little hiking of their own. Charlie is quite the rock hopper!
The Elk were terrific. One was pretty large and a little too imposing for our taste. This big bull was bugleing and rushing towards the road. Charlie was very upset, so we didn't do much more Elk watching after that.




















































































































































































































Sunday morning the boys woke up full of energy! We went to Bear lake and walked the little nature trail around the lake. Charlie was very excited about the snow that fell the night before. The lake was beautiful. We also met a little chipmunk who was very curious about Charlie and Charlie was just as curious about him!












































































































Henry trying not to nap! Losing the battle.

SEPTEMBER!

I know it's been a LONG time. These are all from September. The weather in Sept. was beautiful and Alex got to take the boys to a lot of fun new playgrounds while he was home when I was recouperating from the surgery. Scott Carpenter is a local hero and there is a playground named after him with all kinds of outerspace themed play equipment- like the space shuttle ride. They LOVE it! We took them to another airport open house and they had an old firetruck to play one. Henry looked so cute in the red next to it. Charlie was moving too fast to capture a picture of him!
We got a few of Chloe this month! We had dinner with my brother and his family. We were in the parking lot and let the kiddos play in the back of Ames' truck. they thought it was so fun. Chloe is getting so big and she's super sweet!
The spider is a lovely little lady (I think) who made her home on our patio for a few days. I looked her up online and she's a Cat Faced Spider and apparently very rare and completely harmless. And since her web was behind the gril the boys couldn't bother her. A few days later we saw another really tiny one, but I haven't seen that one again. Anyway, it was a lot of fun to watch her and look at her new web every morning. We were a little sad to discover her gone one morning.