We spent a week in Colorado in August at Brant's family reunion. We had so much fun and it was great getting to know Brant's family better, many of whom we haven't seen in 5 years. Most had never met Gavin or Tyler. We stayed in cabins and spent most of the day enjoying the beautiful Colorado mountains.
Here is a creek that was really close to our cabins. Just a few feet down there were some hot springs.
We spent a lot of time at the swimming pool. The pools were all naturally heated by the hot springs so they were nice and warm. The boys loved the 400 foot water slide and went down over and over again.
The boys were champs on the 7 mile hike we went on. It was definitely too much for a 4 year old, but Gavin toughed it out and only had to be carried a little bit. He was all smiles once we were done.
Jay and Amy brought a slack line that everyone got to have some fun with. I think it would be impossible to walk on that thing without holding on to something.
One of our favorite things was kayaking. Gavin kept wanting to go out all by himself.
Spencer was brave and did some rock climbing. He was fine until he was rappelling down and hit his back on part of the rock. He had a good battle wound to show for it.
Since it was a 16 hour drive to Colorado (it takes us 10 hours just to get out of Texas), we stayed at a hotel on the way there. We all love staying in a hotel, though we usually try to get one with an extra room so we can actually sleep. It's hard to sleep with Tyler in the same room. On the way home we decided to drive straight through. We were so glad when we made it home safely.
