Zoo day!

 

Randoms from late August

Meow Wolf.

Open water swim for these three.

Good buddies with the same haircut on the night before one left for college.

These two walk to weightlifting class together and walked home the other night in the pouring rain (hard to tell how hard it was raining from the photo but they were drenched.)

2nd hike of the school year.

 

Apple Watch for Papa

Papa got an apple watch for his birthday, but maybe the most important part was the assistant who came to help set it up!

 

Annual Camping Trip!

 

First Day of school

First day celebration dinner at the kids new favorite restaurant.  Brian had golf.

These two afterschool, youngest was at a friends house.  

Senior year!  He wasn't there for the family photo this am because of senior sunrise, but I got these last week and he sent the ones below.

And sophomore year and 4th grade for these two!

 

Mountains with B

 

Broadmoor and the Manitou Incline

With the help of our older two kids and my parents for one night, Bri and I were able to get to the Broadmoor to celebrate our 20th anniversary!  I have always wanted to do the Manitou Incline and so we did it!  And then instead of going home to kids, we laid by the incredible pool at the Broadmoor and ate yummy food and just hung out with each other.  It was so nice and turns out that despite the crazy fun life at home, we still love hanging out together alone too.  And the hike was HARD!

 

A Family Hike-minus 1

While we haven't been able to escape for a long far off vacation this summer, we have managed to squeeze in what we can.  Unfortunately LT had to work, but the 4 of us went to the mountains for 2 days and went on a favorite hike up to an abandoned mine. 

Our home up there doesn't get the love it needs unfortunately, so we had to drain the hot tub, clean it and then refill it.  Lucky for these two, they have always wanted to do a cold plunge, I can't believe they are smiling in the 58 degree water.

Crawdad Searching

These two are close buds at VV each summer.  Unfortunately they do not see each other much during the year (and he's moving to Idaho soon).  But, they did have an epic playdate last week.  A sleepover at our house (more like a no sleep all nighter) followed by crawdad searching the next day with his buddies dad.

 

State Swim Meet

These guys had the state swim meet (ads on Friday and today and LT just today).  I have been so bad about taking photos, I made them take the one above at 5:30 AM in case I didn't get anything else.  Luckily I was on my A game for photo taking today and more were taken.

Before and after these 4 won and set the record in the medley relay (they did the same in the free relay but unfortunately DQd).

And these two were on a very solid relay as well (the other two had to swim immediately after the relay so it was only these two in the photo).

They both swam so well today and had some best times and scored some good points for the team.

In my opinion, Ads swims the hardest races.  Fly in the relay, 100 fly, 400 free and then the 200IM.  So strong.

And LT is such a fast sprinter, so fun to watch.

The team after the meet was over.  While B didn't go this year, he was there all day cheering his brothers and their friends on (and playing some games on phones too).

Friends for a long time.