Camping on the Arkansas River

Noah was busy imaginary fishing.

Our cowboy....

After faithfully fishing several times each day they caught a fish. The guys weren't fly fishing so it was a little harder to catch many fish.

Giving Uncle Travis some love.

Micah had a great time working on 'find the difference' pictures.

The boys making smores, yummy!

The boys in the river.

Uncle Travis being silly.

The boys crossing the most rickety bridge ever, yikes!

Amazingly beautiful!

Brothers + fishing ='s happiness.

Micah, such a handsome little boy with the Dillen blues.

I have to give Tim and ton of credit for this post. He took the time to research a great place for us to stay a few days to camp, fish and catch up with his brother in southwestern CO. He found Sweetwater River Ranch, it was awesome! It reminded me in a hurry how completely beautiful the state of Colorado is. I really do hope we can live in this state at some point in or out of our military career.

Family pictures

My dad with his girls.

My grammy and I.

My mom and dad with their grandkids.

A proud Grandpa.

Doing what Noah does best, lines of cars!

My sisters kids, Tyler and Kylie were so good with the boys.

Cousins - Micah, Noah and Tyler.

Swetsville Zoo

Mama and baby....

There were a lot of dinosaurs.

Snoopy :)

The boys thought this was the slinky dog from the Toy Story movies.

We knew we needed to do some school clothes shopping for Micah while we were gone and decided to head to Ft. Collins. After shopping we decided to go to a place that google pulled up when I searched for free things to do. We ran across a place called Swetsville Zoo, it was a Zoo of used car and machine parts made into figurines. It was pretty impressive that someone had the creativity and patience to create all these different things. I think the boys enjoyed it, other then the heat.

My Grandma's

My Grandma Peters and I. She was so tiny, I had to remind her who I was when we entered her room.

My Grandma Venneman and I. She had a nice, yet sad talk with Tim and I right before we left, basically told us her goodbyes. The bittersweet part of our trip.

One of the main reasons for our trip to WY was to see both my Grandma's. Their health has been up and down and now mostly poor. My grandma on my mom's side has still been able to live at home but my other grandma recently was put in full-time nursing home care. I went and saw her with just my dad, Tim and I weren't too sure about the boys visiting the nursing home. I'm glad I left them behind because even I was shocked at how it is to be in a nursing home. It was beyond depressing for me. I think I cried on and off the whole time we were there, I was emotionally drained the rest of that day. I hope to live a long healthy life, but hope my final days or months aren't spent in a nursing home.

Rockies vs. Phillies

My friend Brianna and her family.

My love.

Spending some quality time with my dad.

Brothers....

While in WY we took a short trip to Denver to catch a Rockies/Phillies game. The Phils are Tim's favorite MLB team and it just so happened they were playing during our stay. Tim's brother Travis lives in Denver and he was able to join us at the game. My sister and dad also took the day off from work and they were able to come as well.

My friend Brianna and her family were also at the game, we got to meet up for a quick picture. After the game we went to their house and it was great catching up. It's was so nice to spend time with her, their family has been through so much the last several years and it was great to see her in person and see how she is. My boys thoroughly enjoyed playing with her son Drew.

A stop over in Vegas

All my boys!

The M&M Store.

The boys with their favorite cartoon guy, Spongebob.

Micah with the Bellagio water show in the background.

Tim and Noah at the pool.

On the drive out we stopped over in Vegas. We quickly got a taste of summertime temps while there. We stayed at a RV resort, it was so nice! It had a HUGE pool that we basically had the whole time to ourselves. Noah was jumping into the pool left and right, he's completely fearless. Micah is still his cautious little self but enjoys making up games in the pool for us to play as a family. One day we walked the "strip" and luckily saw nothing interesting to have to explain to the boys, phew!

Three week vacation.

Our house on wheels. After living in it for three weeks, Tim and I have both had to re-train ourselves to live in a "normal" house again.

Stopping at a Historical Landmark.

Since Tim works in such a small shop we had to wait our turn to earn a decent amount of leave this year. We knew we needed to get to WY in the near future because both of my Grandma's are in poor health. We spent ten days in WY, visiting friends and family and enjoying some actual summertime temps.

The drive was much more enjoyable because we towed our camper behind us and had food, potty and supplies all along the route. We ended up driving a total of 3700 miles after it was all said and done, I drove about 25 of those miles:). Tim wanted me to give it a try. I am extremely thankful Tim is such a calm, good driver.