Garden of the Gods

When you live in Colorado you tend to take the beautiful mountains, that create the back drop of each day, for granted.  Not so when you only get to visit them a few weeks out of every year.  Oh how I miss them.  I was telling my mom the other day that I'm pretty sure I haven't been up in "my" mountains, since my brother got married.  Do you know when that was?  M was only 4 months old, which means I have not visited the mountains for FOUR YEARS!!!  That is way too long for this Colorado girl SO when we had the opportunity to visit Colorado for a few weeks, I had to at least get as close to the mountains as I could.  Enter an afternoon picnic and hike at the Garden of the Gods.  Not quite the mountains, but it is the foothills and the view is not too shabby.

Taking it all in

Fearless

Cautious

Deer tracks

Exploring

Following Daddy's Footsteps

Our explorers and climbers

The family

Me and Aaron

(See!  Not too shabby of a view.)

 Rockin' their shades