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My sister-in-law Leisel is quite the fabulous person! She's awesome at sewing, quilting and a ton more. She has this giveaway going on--check it out, so cute...

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My nieces are adorable little girls!!!

Yes Sir!

Last night I was getting the girls ready for bed and it was Ayva's turn. She was feeling a little goofy and wouldn't come to me when I would call for her. I finally got her and said, "Ayva, come on." She then responded while laughing, "Yes Sir!" Then stood up and saluted me.

I just about died! Where did she see that?!

It was hilarious to see her little hand go to her forehead and salute.

Cheyenne's Zoo

Last Friday Josh took the girls to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo while I was working at a wedding. The girls of course loved it!

They loved the elephants.

Cheyenne loves hanging and swinging on anything she can.

Ayva got to ride on a horse for the first time. She's been dying to ride a horse. Only problem, she's been wanting to ride on a white horse.

She loved it anyway! Funny thing was, when I found out about this first for her, I was so disappointed that I wasn't there. Selfish, I know!

Ayva loves climbing!

Cheyenne was fascinated with all the animals. She loved the monkeys until one of them show it's teeth and growled. It scared her.

She was climbing on everything!

Had to go back to the elephants.

If there are any kinds of birds, Ayva will be there chasing them.

The next day I was asking Ayva about their zoo trip and she said, "We went to Cheyenne's zoo!"

It just wouldn't be right....

if we didn't go camping.

Some of you asked if Josh got his stuff back, yes he did.

The weekend after his hiking trip we went camping very close to his campsite. On our way home we took a detour to retrieve his stuff. We got to the trailhead, Josh hike up to get his stuff while the girls and I hung out in the truck and watched a movie. Ok, so the girls watched a movie while I drifted off to sleep, for only a few minutes.

Here are some pics from our camping trip.

The sky was absolutely amazing when we arrived and this pic doesn't do it justice.

Not five minutes later and my girls are as dirty as can be.

This is the lake we were at, it was beautiful and the weather was quite nice. We had the perfect spot, no one around.

Cheyenne didn't like the idea of having her chair around the campfire, she wanted another view, right on the edge of a cliff.

And this is what we almost put our tent by, we almost had the door in front of that thing. There were cows everywhere and we woke up to the sounds of them.

Baby plumbers crack!

Ayva being a doggy. She's almost like her mom, didn't put her knees down because it was too dirty.

It's hard getting a pic of the two of them and both smiling.

Ayva and daddy caught a Lake Trout.

They thought it was pretty cool and so did daddy!

Here's all the fish we caught. The one on the left is the Lake Trout and see the second biggest, yah, that's mine. I caught it all by myself. I even took the hook out and hooked it on the stringer thingy with all the others.

Pretty successful fishing trip, Josh was excited to catch that Lake Trout.

A COUPLE RANDOM PICS

I got another one of them together and smiling.

Ayva's first picture taking experience.

14er

Again, I'm behind on my posts, will I ever get caught up?

About 3 weekends ago Josh challenged himself in climbing a 14,000 foot mountain, Mount Columbia (part of the collegiate peaks). No he did not hike 14,000 feet. He got to a trail head and started hiking late Friday night. He got to a place where he decided to camp for the night, on a 25 degree angle. The night wasn't very comfortable.

He went to sleep and woke up to something pacing outside. He started making a lot of noise and it wouldn't leave so he went outside to build a big campfire. He of course was up all night.

He began his ascent and found fresh bear droppings by his campsite. Prayers were answered for this adventure. He left his tent, sleeping bag, etc. thinking he'd be back around lunch time.

Here are some shots he got while hiking.

Here's the trailhead where he started on Friday.

With many adventures up and down the mountain, Man vs. Wild skills came in handy a few times. No he did not drink his urine or eat any bugs.

There were several people at the top with him. They were all talking and found out this was Josh's first attempt at a 14,000 footer. They said, "And you picked this one, are you crazy?" They've all climbed other ones before and hated this mountain.

They all climbed up in the same area but Josh took the long way up. He had to climb up 5 different peaks along the way. He said on the way down his legs were worked so much it was hard to hop over logs.

So on his way down he accidently went the wrong way. He made it off the mountain and found a dirt road back to the truck but had to leave his tent and things behind. He got back late Saturday night and was exhausted. He was dehydrated and hardly ate anything that day because a lot of his stuff was at his campsite.

It was an interesting experience and one I'm sure he'll never forget.

Can you believe he went by himself?