/\^Rocky Mountain National Park^/\

Our family vacation destination this year, was Estes Park, Colorado and Rocky Mountain National Park. Because of the flooding at the end of the summer, we had to go the looong way. It took us almost 12 hours to get there. The girls did so awesome in the car! I was really surprised. The bonus for going the long way was there were lots of tunnels! The girls loved that part. Every tunnel Halia would say in this tiny little voice, "Woo-Hoo, it's funny!" This was the longest tunnel, not sure how long, but it took several minutes to go through. O yeah it was snowing most of the drive there.

 It was really such a beautiful drive. Well worth being in the car for a long time.

 Sprauge Lake in RMNP.

 This was at Bear Lake in RMNP.

 Brought all our snow gear...but forgot gloves. It was pretty traumatic.We bought gloves shortly after.

 We stayed in a condo that had a hot tub on the deck, Quincy's favorite part about the whole trip, Halia not so much, she only was in for a minute before she asked to go watch Cinderella:)

 We saw more elk in Estes Park, the town we stayed in, than we did in the national park itself. The snow made it seem like Christmas, it was pretty fun to wake up to a couple inches of snow.

 Then we hiked to Alberta Falls in the all this snow. Quincy was in heaven! We had to stop about every 20ft to make snowballs. Halia was a trooper, but super happy to get back to the car. The poor little sweetheart!

 Glacier Gorge

 We did lots and lots of elk viewing, they were still bugling. The elk were everywhere so it was pretty fun to be able to sit in the car and watch and listen to them from about 50yrds away! The girls really liked watching and listening to them, especially Quincy this kind of stuff is right up her ally.

 Lots of beautiful nature!

 Elk everywhere, even on people's lawns as you can see, but they don't even care that people park and watch them! Of course there were a few crazy people, we saw, that walked right up to them.

 Alluvial Fan and a beautiful sunset, o and Halia getting in a quick nap.

 They both got Jr. Ranger badges. That was really fun for Quincy, she did all the work and then I just copied all she wrote in her book into Halia's book.

 Silly girl, so moody!

 Hike to Gem Lake, it was 1.9 miles and the last half was extremely steep and icy, we were not aware how difficult it would be with two small kids until we were an hour in, but Quincy was a rock star and only got a few short piggy backs and did the rest herself!!

 She wanted to sleepover at the top, because she was so tired and didn't want to think about going back down, but she made it back down and was pretty proud of herself!

 The Stanley Hotel, where the shining was filmed. This big guy up above was on the front lawn.

Really beautiful, but a little eerie:/

 The drive home felt like way more than 12 hours! We left pretty early, so this is a crappy picture of that tunnel from the other side. We had a lot of whining go on, for the ride home, but they still did better than I expected. What little troopers! We had a really fun time, it was such a beautiful trip!! Well worth the drive, the cold, and the snow!!

::Halloween::

We had a ghost and a little bo peep for Halloween!

 We had a Halloween/Gabriel's birthday party at my parents house. There was a mummy Pinata!

 The kids also did foam crafts, Halia was surprisingly really into that project. She took them apart and put them back together over and over again for almost 2 hours and then some more the next day.

 We carved pumpkins...well I carved pumpkins, the girls lost interest really quickly.

 So since it was just me...I got fancy. This is always one of my favorite things about the season:)

In case you can't tell we have Merida from Brave, The old hag from Snow White...

 Scar from Lion King, and Cinderella!

They had lots of fun trick-or-treating, and got way too much candy, spoiled little ladies.

2013 Peach Season

We had a really smooth peach season this year. It was not as chaotic as in years past, which was very good for my sanity.... and Tony's sanity. :)

Halia was big enough to start having fun on the tractor this year!

 The girls got really bored and found some good entertainment with the potato boxes, we put peaches in to send home with the customers. Quincy is in the one on the left and Halia on the right.

 Quincy was in school for most of the season this year, so she wasn't stuck at the stand quite as often, Halia became really good friends with the portable dvd player....

 ....and my cell phone. she loved taking pictures of these faces over and over again.

 Tony's uncle Terry helps us out A LOT when it comes to peaches, which we are extremely grateful for. The girls, especially Quincy, love him like a grandpa and he is so adorable with them, I love it. I hope they can always keep that great relationship with him, he kept me company at the stand a lot. He is such a cute little old man!:)

 This blue-eyed guy is amazing, he works so hard for us, and I love him more than anything. We had a pretty decent crop, and we were able to get rid of them pretty quickly. Down at the bottom is Tony and his brother. Peach buddies...

 Peach season is hard cause there isn't much time to play when we get home, so sometimes we had to combine play and dinner time.

 Woke up extremely early one morning and almost stepped on this....

startled me to death, wasn't sure she was breathing! She was, Tony said she must have had a milk overdose! hehe ;}

 This was on the way home one night, I had to pull over and get a picture, it was beautiful and just reminded me that my Heavenly Father loves me.