Wednesday, July 7, 2010

A weekend in Breck

This is the view from the backyard of the house (which has been converted into 6 apartments).With our upcoming move to a much cheaper house in Bailey, Nick asked around and we got the best hook-up on a Studio rental in Breckenridge. We signed a year lease along with our year lease cabin rental in Bailey where I work and the kids go to school. This will make it much easier on Nick in the winter months for his commute, not to mention that we'll all be up there every weekend in the winter for snowboarding and all the enjoyment we've gotten out of it already this weekend since it fell into our lap. Its a short 2 minute drive to Fatty's (Nick's work) and an easy 10 minute hike to Main Street.


Heading out for another hike.
One of the many trails we have hiked ran this week.
Its about a 25 minute hike to the town park.  (and that's with Joss hiking in Crocs!)

A newly learned skill.
I smell trouble on the monkey bars.
Go Tye, go!
Still mis-matching the Crocs!
Brothers!
Some perspective on how steep the hike to the park really is.
Putting it to scale, you can see a woman hiking if you look closely.
At the trail head...like the ski slops, the hiking trails are labeled Green, Blue, Black and Black Diamond.  These three hiking champions absolutely amaze me with their strength and stamina on this, yes...BLACK DIAMOND hike!! 
About 1/3 of the way back up.
The first time we did this hike, the kids got pooped out in a flash since they wereracing each other up.  They very quickly learned, slow and steady really does win the race!
Gotta love this picture.
A homemade see-saw made even more fun by the Haddad kids.
Is that great balance or what??  You can see why they are such great little snowboard dudes!

Well, that's it for now...the kids wanted to keep a Wildflower Photo Collection so we are creating a second page to our blog...check it out for new wildflower picture additions.

4th of July 2010

Happy 4th of July to all!
We celebrated the 4th over a span of a few days with the big show of fireworks from the studio in Breckenridge.
Sparklers were are big hit for the boys right off the bat.
You can see Josslyn's reaction to the boys' ground fireworks and sparklers.

Braving the Piccolo Pete.
Joss prefered to snuggle up with bunny and daddy.
Some neighborhood kids joined the boys in the fun.
Finally, with 1 sparkler left...Joss decided to give it a try.
Not quite sure.
Success!
Even venturing away from daddy's protective arms.
We hit the downtown Fairplay parade with Gail, her son and his family.
Gail was thrilled to have us all together at her house with baby Katie.
Toothlessness!

Hope you had a great celebration of our independance!

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Summer fun!

Georgia, Tye, Joss and Jake. 
"Cha-cha, cha-cha, cha, CHA!"