Colorado and the 4th of July

I do realize that I am almost two weeks behind on posting, but that's about how I roll.

Here are a few of our favorite moments from our trip to Colorado. We visited John's sister Joleen and had a blast with her family. Her kids always do a super job of keeping us entertained. We are so glad they were such good sports to hang out with us "old people" for a week.

We visited a butterfly museum and some of us tried our hand at this (I would not be one of those people, but check out my brave little entomologist!).

Others of us tried to stay cool in the humid "rain forest" filled with butterflies (the look on Tyler's face says it all).

We also did a bit of this at an amusement park up in the canyon:

(Notice Tyler giving the "thumbs up" sign with his pointer fingers).

And made sure to do plenty of this afterwards:

We also enjoyed beautiful scenes like this:

We made sure to make time for lots of goofing around:

(This is John and Jake making a Lego robot that was programmed to light the explosives located in the watermelon that was to explode for the fourth of July "cul de sac of fire"...So glad John has always found a partner in crime- Thanks Jake!)

Of course, we all had to try a bit of this:

Here is Tyler's version of Guitar Hero. He doesn't really know the difference between a guitar and a violin. If you look closely, you'll notice he's stroking his little fingers like a violin. Who knows maybe someday "air violin" will be all the rage.

John had a chance to go hiking with this handsome crew:

And he did the entire hike wearing a pink backpack with the name Jann embroidered on the pocket. Way to go Jann!

And of course, no Fourth of July would be complete without a bit of this:

Good times, good food, good fun! Thanks Joleen and family!