Buena Vista Camping!!

We finally got the courage to go camping as a family!  Buena Vista became our target spot, as it is not quite 2hrs away, but is WARM!!!  It is southwest of Breck, and home to some of the best rafting on the Colorado River - not that we got to go rafting on this trip:)

The perfect potty stop!!  This is at the top of Hoosier Pass, right down the road from 'Elk Ridge Ranch', our wedding location!!  We shared this incredible view with our family and friends on one of the best days of my life, second only to the birth of Elsie Anne!

Dinner at a delicious restaraunt before setting up 'Camp'!!  This was the perfect spot to run around and even get to climb some rocks!!

The first stages of set up...

...and VOALA... the campsite at its finest!!  First time our family roasted marshmellows together, and definitely won't be the last!  There's just something about that outdoor bonding time:)

I had to let go on trying to keep this Princess clean:)  She loved the dusty dirt, and was soon covered from head to toe!!

Climbing in the trees!

Not too many pics, but plenty of memories from our first Fraser Camping trip!!  We all enjoyed ourselves, the outdoors, and the time we got to spend together:)

STRIDER Balance Bike!

This time, last summer, while we were at the Mountain Bike Nationals in Granby, we saw this little boy on a 'Balance Bike'... his dad told us he had just turned 2 and he was obsessed with this thing!  We couldn't believe our eyes at what this miniature person was doing!!  We decided we'd HAVE to get one for Elsie Anne when the time comes!!

Well, that time came in FULL FORCE, when her friend Lilly got one for her birthday!  Lilly didn't want anything to do with it at her party, so EA hopped on & rode all around the neighborhood!  Then a few days later, we played at Henry's house & he had just gotten one... thank goodness he also had a scooter that he was more interested in, because once EA got a hold of his bike, there was NO turn taking!  She absolutely melted into a puddle when I forced her off the bike to let Henry ride it - H saw the trauma it caused & quickly returned it to her:)  Our little buddy is such a LOVER!!

We had one more experience like the previous story & came to the conclusion: this purchase can NOT wait until we move to Florida, we have to get her a Balance Bike of her own, before she takes one of her friends' bikes home:)

We found a great deal at a Bike Shop in town, and she RODE out of the store with HER OWN STRIDER!!  She didN't get off that bike until an hour & a half later, when we were both starving for lunch!  She rode all around town... on the sidewalks, over the river on bridges, in the bumpy gravel parking lots, on the handicap ramps, up & down the curbs, in all the pot holes we could find...

She was a natural... I couldn't believe that MY 2YR OLD was doing the same thing the boy in Granby had done!!  This is in the first 5min of purchasing her STRIDER - up a steep hill on the bike path:)

I had to PROMISE her, to get her to nap, that we would go to the Bike Track when Daddy got home... and that is just what we did - packed up a bucket of beer, her bike & we were off!!

So proud of herself and the independence she has on her own Strider Bike!!

This video is her 3rd lap on the 'whoops' in the track!  She blows our mind with the control she has at all times!!

Yes, We should be a spokeswomen for this product!  We think every child should have one:)