July 7th, 2010

Vacation: From Home to Boulder

Cue the vacation photos!

At a desert rest stop, first day on the road.

The view out the window sure changed when we got to Colorado.

The creek that runs through Boulder was high.

Took the Coors Factory tour in Golden. I felt like I was in the opening credits of Laverne and Shirley.

First time in the pool!

We had fun swimming.

At the capitol in Denver. It was sweltering and a quick visit.

At the Colorado State Train museum

Riding the rails.

Rocky Mountain National Park

That's high!

Moose!

Babywearing at 8000 feet.

Alluvial Fan at RMNP

Next up: Ft Collins, Steamboat Springs and the drive home. I bet you can’t wait!

July 2nd, 2010

AdventureJune has come to a close

Steamboat Springs

We survived our massive (for us) road trip and made it home safe and sound. Some vacation posts are to follow, mixed in with the regularly schedulde programing. Overall, I think we went about 2500 miles, but will check with hubs for the grand total. My car did awesome, ran great and was comfortable. Hubs just spent about 2 hours giving her a bath and she’ll be as good as new. We went through a total of 6 states and I added 2 new ones (Colorado and Wyoming) towards being in all 50. Good times.

Somewhere in Utah or possibly Nevada

June 30th, 2010

Wordless Wednesday: Salt Lake City

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June 24th, 2010

First Swim

One of the perks of traveling is access to pools. We really only have pay to swim pools in town and I hadn’t decided whether we would do the baby swim class this summer and wanted to introduce Spencer to the water before I paid for classes and had him scream in terror all the way through. We are staying with my husband’s aunt in Boulder and her complex has a pool. We took Spencer tonight and he loved it.

Getting his feet wet!

We started out with him just sitting on the steps and he seemed a little confused, like the pool was a giant, cold bathtub.  After a few minutes, he seemed to take to the water. I went in and carried him deeper in the pool. He started kicking right away and when I put him on his stomach he splashed his hands and kicked his feet in a really rudimentary doggy-paddle. I swear that if I had let him go he would have swam clear across the pool. We are going to have take him in again before we leave.

We made it to the deep end

His joy made me get over having to be in a bathing suit, which was slightly horrifying. The incident was also photographed; this served two purposes: we have a cute memento of the occasion and now I have huge motivation to start eating better and exercising. I don’t want to crop myself out of all of Spencer’s childhood photographs.