It's a Squirrel!!!

At our house the main living area is upstairs. Outside there are stairs you have to go up in order to make it to our front door. The kids had been playing outside most of the day and they came in occasionally, but they were fine and having fun. I thought someone was seriously hurt as all four of them came RUNNING up the stairs screaming. I know now that they were saying they had a squirrel, but at the time I had NO idea what they were saying just that it was important. I went to the front door only to find Mckenzie holding a squirrel they had caught outside. I immediately told them to let it go, it's wild, and it will bite right??? well it only bit Kenzie twice and all the kids wanted to hold it. I told them no and to let it go and as soon as it was free it jumped off our front porch which is a good 15 to 20 feet up. I think it figured it couldn't take any chances with getting caught again and it bailed....it lived and that was our Monday excitement:)

Mollie Kathleen Mine

The kids always want to take a trip to the mine to see where their dad works so I decided to take them... sort of. This mine is at the entrance of the CC&V Mine that Justin works for. The biggest difference is that he works in at open pit. The MK Mine is an underground mine, but they have a visitors center so this is the one I chose to take them to. From some of the pictures You can see the top of the mountain and this is the open pit mine at 11,000 feet elevation. They had fun and it was interesting to see some of the old mining equipment.

Florrisant Fossil Beds

Today we went to the Fossil Beds National Park. I was a little worried when we got there because it is not really in the trees and you have to walk quite a bit. The visitors center had an activity book for the kids to complete while we were out walking which helped make the kids a little more excited. Cole was the one who wanted to go and see the fossils and the others were not SO excited about the idea, but we went and enjoyed our selves anyways. We went for just over a mile hike and everyone did pretty good until the last bit where Jake continuously reminded me that he "was too tired" and he "didn't want to walk no more". All in all the weather was great, we spent good time together, and the kids earned their "junior ranger" badges.

Green Mountain Falls

Since moving to Colorado we have been kinda bored here. It has been hard to adjust to only knowing "ourselves"... No friends, No family, Nobody:) So the kids and I go out and check out different areas that are near by and this is a place we found yesterday.

We had a great time and the creek running behind the park was an added bonus.