Colorado-our last day!

Fern Lake Hike

We saved our biggest hike for the last day! It was a new hike up to Fern Lake and we got another early start (to try to miss the rain and hail)! It was a 8 mile hike with a 1300 elevation gain, so it was tough, but it was worth it!

1/2 way to Fern Lake

The waterfall

Fern Lake

We did get rained on on the way down, but no hail and it wasn't too bad! Luke and I were exhausted when we got to the car.....just in time for the kids to have energy, after sleeping for part of the hike!

We stopped for icecream in town and went out for pizza for our last night!

Bishop and Daddy in the HOT water! ;)

It was pouring our last night in Colorado.....a good time to head home! We had such a fun trip! It was a lot of work, but definitely worth it. I absolutely love the mountains and it's so fun to have so many neat experiences with the kids. It makes me so happy that they like to do what we enjoy doing (at least so far)! :)

Our drive home went well. We left our place at 8:30am. We had to drive out of the mountains, so we were on some pretty windy roads. Bishop was watching Elmo Potty and was in a daze.........I was sitting in the backseat when all of a sudden he got sick. He threw up all over himself in the carseat. We stopped, changed, cleaned him up and he got a new black bear. He kept asking "What happened?" and saying "I don't like the yucky stuff, mommy". I don't either, Bishop. It wasn't an easy drive, as Nora was fussy for part of it....but we managed to push through to Owatonna and we made it there at 11:45. We spent the night there and it was nice to have some help in the morning and to only have an hour drive home on Sunday!

I can't believe it's over already.....and the summer is 1/2 over. I had so much fun with both kids! Bishop has really turned a corner with me, he lets me do so many more things with him now and it's so fun!