Colorado Vacation.

We did it! We got our house ready to list just in time to head out of town to Colorado for a little R&R. We left the house at 5 am in PERFECT condition. Ready to show. I can't believe we pulled it off. 

These kids were so excited to get to Colorado and were glad to finally be on there way.
Here are a bunch of photos from highlights of our trip.

The boys love the lego room where they can create to their hearts desire with tons of Lego from years gone by.

We hit the Boulder County fair to check out the exhibits. Unfortunately they were closed for the day. We did get to see some Sheep though.

There was a cool climbing wall at the rec center that we had to check out when we went swimming one day.  Max got a lot of practice playing with his new baby cousin Charlie.

We had a really neat experience going to do Baptisms for the dead with all the cousins who were old enough.

It was Max's first time. Mer was able to be baptized and confirmed for her Great Grandma Lucy. It was really special for her. Look at these two big kids of mine.

Then the rest of the crew joined us at Casa Bonita for a fun fiesta of craziness. We even persuaded Grandpa to come.

Mom and Rachel put on a fabulous Luau for us. We had delicious food and fun entertainment. Jared taught all the boys the Haka dance.

Mom put her awesome painting skills to goo use and whipped up a shark to eat us up.


Dad even got in on the action.

The girls made these adorable beach cupcakes and we had a ton of yummy food.

No trip to CO would be complete with out a trip to Into the Wind. It is seriously the most interesting toy shop I've ever been to.

Mer was on a quest to find a statue to pretend to kiss. This bear was the closest she got.

Here are Jer and Ben testing out Dad's new outdoor griddle. These boys love to cook!

Mer had a ton of fun playing with the babies. Here are little Elizabeth and Charlie.

We escaped to Rocky Mountain National Park for a day.  We hiked up to the beautiful Alberta falls.

And we also hiked around Bear Lake. The mountains might be what I miss most about Colorado. I love them!!

Mer is posing with Hannah here, who is headed to BYU Idaho for Winter semester. She's so fun.

Cousin love!

The view was just so pretty here we couldn't stop taking pictures.

Here are all the girl cousins. Girls are rare even on the Newson side of the family.

A siblings pic (minus Ben of course)

We had an elk jump in front of us on the way home.

Nonstop playing with all the cousins is the best part of going home. Everyone has just so much fun.

Of course we had to do a few family photos too. 

All the cousins.

So long fun Family!! We wish you all lived closer.