We went to Wyoming this year. 3 times actually. I had never been and my Aunt wanted us to come for a visit. One of the 3 times we went we went to Frontier days which was super fun. Aleric loved the huge mega slide that they have there!

On the way there:

 A cool fence they have around a train in one of the parks we visited:

 Aleric really likes trains!

 Statue outside of a museum we went in:

 Another statue, Aleric was bigger than it!

 Cheyenne Wyoming has all these giant boots all over town, here is one of them:

 Aleric playing with the spur:

 At frontier days:

 Until this Aleric was scared of bridges:

 Julie and Aleric on the dumbo ride:

 Julie and Aleric on a little train:

Some Crafting

Over the spring I did get a few things sewn up. I made a little dress for my friends daughter for her 1st birthday.

 I made an apron for my MIL, apparently didge the cat approved of it. Chris picked out the fabric for it. It came out beautiful! I wish I had a picture of her wearing it. 

And for John for his Birthday I made him some John Deer pillowcases. I wish I would have more time to sew this year but its just not happening right now.

Dinosaurs!

 As everyone knows Aleric loves dinosaurs, at 3 he can name more of them then I can. so we took him to some sort of Dinosaur thing in Colorado Springs. He loved being able to touch them and watch them move, he even was slightly scared of some of them.

So brave!

Not sure about this one....

Dinosaur Train!!!

Because Aleric loves dinosaurs we found the show Dinosaur Train, so when we found out they were actually going to have a Dinosaur Train over in Durango we just had to take him. This was seriously the longest day of my life. We left our house at 3 am, and got home at almost 9 pm. I have to say only a little bit of the journey was pretty, over in the Wolf Creek Pass area was nice, over by La Veta area was nice, the rest was just the flat lands of nothingness. Aleric had a great time though so it was worth it!

The Conductor!

 Outside the Depot

 Its the train!!

 On the Train with Daddy

 He was scared of Buddy the Dinosaur :)

All he needed was a little bit of Mama help to get a picture with him 

 Digging for fossils - he found a shark tooth!

City Park Kiddie Rides

Every year my mom likes to take Aleric to the Pueblo City Park Kiddie Rides. This year he was big enough to go on 2 new rides (both of them scare the shit out of me). He was so brave! Luckily he did not get my motion sickness problem. 

The Carousel (its like 100 years old)

The mini train 

 This is one of the rides he was able to go on this year - he loved it even though I was freaking out!

 I really thought he was going to jump out of this one, but he stayed seated and had a great time!

Fishing in Colorado City

I honestly cant remember when we went fishing here, I grew up just a little ways from this lake and spent a lot of time here as a child. As I write this in October, I went fishing I think 5 times this summer and only got one fish, it was like 3 inches long. I officially hate fishing! I hate spending money on fishing to not get fish. I spent about $120-$130 this year between fishing licenses for Chris and I, poles, tackle and bait. I could have bought a hell of a lot of fish for that much money! I will stick to hiking next year, Aleric can fish with my mom, I will hike, and we will have lots of fish from the store in the freezer to show for it!

Hiking on Greenhorn

Sometime this spring my brother, Aleric and I went hiking up on Greenhorn Mountain. I always thought I liked the mountains but this journey made me question it. I have never seen a tick in my life (I am 27) well on this trip Aleric and I walked out covered in them between the two of us I think we found 7 or 8 of them, so not covered but I don't like it. Aleric did great though, he hiked the whole way up the trail all by himself, David however had to carry him most the way down.

On the way up:

 On the way down: