Friday, November 14, 2008

Late Summer and Fall Fun

Axel funny face

Luka confetti hay

Ooo! Scary dudes!

The family at the record-breaking Denver rally for Obama with 100,000+ attendees

Luka's birthday with fellow-birthday boy Connor

Luka at 1st day of school!

Leadville Boom Days Spiderman fun

Axel's 3rd Birthday Party

The Ax Man having fun on Boulder's Pearl Street Mall

For more photos of our last few months and Halloween fun, check out our Flickr account. You can see a slide show or just view a few. The most recently posted photos are Fall 2008 and Late Summer 2008.

Here are some photos of late summer and fall fun this year. We celebrated Axel's birthday (August) and Luka's too (October). We had a great time in Leadville where we have our new condo and also some great camping.

Reynald finished his 12-year quest to climb all 59 14'ers in Colorado (peaks over 14,000 feet) and we (Eve and the boys) hiked in 2 hours (the boys hiked by themselves on the way up) and camped with him at Geneva Lake at 10,900 feet, from where, the next day, he started the the S-Ridge route for summitting Snowmass mountain. He carried in a bottle of champagne (along with the dehydrated spaghetti and tuna salad!) to celebrate with some friends who met him there and one of whom was also finishing his 14'er list. For more pictures and description of this event, written by Reynald's fellow 14'er finisher, go here: 14ers website report.

In October, we decorated lots of pumpkins, went to the pumpkin patch, did lots of trick or treating (the night of Halloween and the weekend before), went to the mountains and had other fun.

Luka and Axel were both excited to be Black Spiderman (Luka) and (red) Spiderman (Axel) again for Halloween. We did save money on costumes that way!

The Christmas season has started already. Perhaps a bit earlier for the rest of us, but the kids were excited to see snow flakes, stockings and toy soldier lights hanging from lampposts already near Luka's school. Axel keeps asking if he can go skiing -- we just need more snow!

More to come soon from our winter adventures...