It's fun to stay at the Y. . .M. . .C. . .A

Big Pappy, GT, Ben, and Bryce drove up from Albuquerque this week and we took a little trip up to Estes Park to stay at the YMCA camp. It was beautiful! We had a great cabin, and there were so many fun activities for the kids. Hope and the boys took a "tree art" class where they learned about trees and collected things to make a picture. We accompanied the kids to a "pathfinders" class in which we all learned how to use compasses and got to try out our new skills in a little game. I think Brandon and I had even more fun than the kids at this one. We swam, we played mini-golf and even fit in some time to relax and read. One of the downsides I'll get to the other in a minute was we were only able to fit in a one night stay. We've already decided to go back next year for at least 3 or 4 nights.

The other downside was I hardly took any pictures. Here are the few I got:

Beautiful View!

Ben, Bryce, and Hope - Tree Art

EJ smelling the flowers

pregnant deer

Everyone left this morning to drive back to Albuquerque, including Hope. She's going to spend the week at "Big Pappy Boot Camp". My goal is to get more pictures of everyone when we drive to Albuquerque to pick her up . She was very excited about all of the fun activities they have planned and spending time with the boys (Ethan will be there too), but was a little anxious about leaving home by herself. Last night she told me, she was "ervous - excited and nervous mixed together". We miss her already, but this will give us a little extra time to start getting packed up for the big move and the chance to get rid of some things without protest !