Best Labor Day Weekend EVER!

We had some guests from Wichita this long weekend and we had a blast. We stayed very buys doing lots of fun Colorado Springs stuff:

-Cheyenne Mt Zoo

-Climbing around Garden of the Gods

-Playing at America the Beautiful Park

-Eating pizza at Fargo's

-Freezing at the Balloon Glow

-The women climbed the Incline and hiked down the Barr Trail while the men and kids drove up to the top of Pikes Peak

-5 full hours at the North Pole (Santa's Work Shop)

All with two three-year-olds, a five and seven-year -old. It was kids dream vaca. These are Josie's very best friends and she had soooooo much fun I don't know what can top it! So if you want a great time for a good deal come and visit us in the Springs and we will take care of you. We don't have a good camera so these pics are complements of Dave Ulmer! Take a look and come and hang out with us! Jeff blends in with the wildlife and I desperately need my hair dyed!

The kids!

The kids

The only shot of Karen and I, we look so serious!

Lunch in the car, the kids thought it was great and we loved the price!

At garden of the god's Jeff is in the background keeping the rock off the kids, Ha!

Look at this total model pic! LOVE IT!

Look hard at the scar on the face of the mt in the back, that's the incline we climbed! Tough, but we did it in 59 min and 7 sec soooooo under an hour.

The kids loved climbing around on the rocks and now I get why my mom was so freaked out to let us do it as kids! There are some serious drop offs.

We to the Balloon glow, it was way cool to see all of them light up at once.

Clearly Josie was more interested in something other than smiling for the camera!

Cute family!

The heart one was Josie's fav!

They were cold, it was barely 30 degrees up there! Look at Jeff, I can't even begin to imagine him with 4 of his own kids!

Daddy /daughter, or mountain man /daughter, whatever =)

Best friends and fav pic from the whole weekend!

We spent a day at the North Pole, which is an amusement park on the side of Pikes Peak. I HIGHLY recommend it for family's with kids. There are tons of rides, no lines, less than 20 bucks to get in annnddd you get to visit Santa. The kids saw him first and Josie asked for a real drivable Barbie car. Santa looked at Jeff and I for approval if he could say yes one would be on the way or no Santa can't bring that. Ha! we were totally blindsided and it looks like we will be figuring out how to have Santa bring her that car! (anyone have one or know someone who wants to get rid of one?!?!)

Josie gave us the thumbs up sign when she was having fun! We saw it alot that day!

Even the adults got in on the action! What a fun weekend we had! We love Colorado Springs!!!!