Mt Bierdstadt

My college friend sent me a text months ago, "Do you want to climb Bierdstadt with me on July 5?"  Of course my answer was yes, honestly not thinking about it being the day after the 4th.  I mentioned it to the big kids and they both immediately wanted to join.  And then Landon got two friends to join and before we knew it, we were a big group in our tiny mountain place for the 4th of July weekend.  But it was so fun!  We went to the parade in Vail, the big kids adventured in the afternoon and then I put them to bed early and off we went at 4:30 AM July 5 to climb Bierdstadt.  

Unfortunately, my friend wanted to start later than we did, so we only saw her on the trail on our way down, but it was a fun day nonetheless!

 

Late June pool time and swim meets

Playdate with an old friend.

The nerd squad pool party.

Lunch with the upper D after the Ken Caryl meet was lighteninged out.

Cuties at Ken Caryl.

 

Wizzard Camp!

B and several of his friends were in Wizzard Camp (Harry Potter).  It was a pretty incredible camp full of magic, potions and best of all Quidditch.  They invited the parents to the multiple quidditch matches on Friday, which was truly fun to watch!

 

Harry Potter

LT and B are the two of our kids who both have gotten into Harry Potter.  And about the same age.  LT watched B a few nights recently for us while we had events for Ads.  We came home to them snuggling and reading.

 

B and his buds

B and his buds living in up in the heating area for a swim race.

 

Beginning of Summer Fun

I am really bad about taking pictures, so most of these were sent to me, but we had a fun beginning to summer.  These two had a pool party in our yard (minus the pool).

We finally had our rescheduled Voices Rock concert (the kids performed a few weeks ago, but the adult choir was rescheduled due to a COVID outbreak).

Ads group in Spain has a WhatsApp photo album, so I took a few of the pictures of Ads from there.

One of my bookclubs celebrating summer.

Ads and his two (twin) host brothers upon first meeting them.

 

Ads visits Julen

On Ads first day in Spain, he was near where our exchange student from last summer lives.  Julen's family was so kind and picked Ads up and spent the day with him.  Julen's mom sent me all these photos.

 

LT turns 17!