Lake Owen Camping Trip

Ok so this ahs taken forever for me to post.  I wanted to write a whole big spiel on our wonderful time at Lake Owen, but I just haven't had the time.  Hopefully the pics won't need much explanation.

Basically our campsite was surrounded by lodge pole pines and the door of our tent opened to a view of the lake and snow caped mountains as a back drop!

If you look closely you can see our blue tent on the back side of the lake against the trees.

this pic doesn't do the view justice!

There was a really nice trail that was part of an old railroad track.  JOhn and Andrew had fun climbing on the caboose.

Summer time Fun!

Our summer has started with a bang.  It seems like every time I blink something new is on the "to-do" calendar.  Of course if you know me very well, I wouldn't have it any other way.  :o)

Last weekend we held a BBQ at the park for all our friends.  We invited about 40 people and as they say expect 50%, we had 19 people there.  We taught an Englishman how to play volleyball, "open pit at a public park" sand volleyball.  He was such a sport.  He didn't shy away from the ball, in fact he even dove for it, and land practically face first in "cat poo" *sounds better with the English accent*  We then set up a temp net on the grass.  

It's been too long since John and I have played volleyball.  Our bodies quickly reminded us that we were not 16 anymore.  But we had fun regardless.

As you can see in the following pics Andrew has had a lot of water fun this summer.  We got him a $5 Slip 'N Slide.  There is the perfect little hill at Maria's house for it.  He is a slip n slide pro!  He has also enjoyed the new splash park at an awesome new park in Fort Collins.  I don't know if MO has any splash parks.  We have 3 now in FC.  The are just little fountain area, normally set up at parks, for kids to splash around in.  The water is chlorinated and recirculated so it's a little warmer then a sprinkler.    And of course my little fishy is addicted!

Andrew also got to go to his first Demolition Derby, or as he says the "BOOM BOOM BOOM Cars"!  There were about 22 of us in our group and we'd each put in a quarter and tried to pick the cars that we thought would survive.  Andrew is still talking about his "broken orange car"  He was good at telling us which ones to pick.  Luckily we didn't really listen considering his were almost always the first ones out.  I think his favorite part was watching the "HUGE" tractors trying to dry out the track in the beginning.  He just sat there in amazement.

His silly face glasses he got at Chucky Cheese.

The tractors preparing the field.

Watching his "broken orange car"

Splash park photos!

I'm sure there will be more summer fun pics to come!

My little fishy

Here are few picks of our daily swim adventure right here in our back yard, or should I say back porch.  I"m going to try to get him into swim lessons this summer.  As you can see, he's a natural fish!  Hopefully this weekend we will get alot of good picks at our BBQ.