Colorado: Ft. Collins, Denver, CO Springs

Hi Everyone!! we are still having a great time on our trip, just getting a little run down from all the fun :-) 

But, before we write anymore, we'd like to congratulate Michelle and Jason on the birth of their son, Charles "Charlie" West born June 8th at 3:58P; 7lbs. 13oz. and 19in :-) 

PRECIOUS!! xoxo

CONGRATULATIONS!!! Can't wait to "Skype meet him" Love you guys!! xoxo

Sorry we haven't updated much lately, it takes a little while to upload the pictures and been running around a lot lately! Thursday night we left Ft. Collins and headed down to Denver for the night and stayed with our friends, Sarah & Ryan and daughters Ashlyn and Quinn. Then Quinn was baptized today so a lot of Sarah and Ryan's family came into town this weekend and Sarah's sister, Emily, arrived on Thursday while we were there too! Thank you guys SO much for having us!! We had such a great time seeing all of you guys and can't wait until you guys come out!!! Emily, we'll meet up soon too! safe travels home! xoxox

Denver Skyline

Denver Traffic - SUX pretty bad too!! 

Denver skyline

Infuse Stadium 

Sarah and Ryan's house- LOVE IT!!

One of their daughters, Quinn 

Shannon & Emily (Sarah's sister) 

Booker & Fletcher 

Best Friends 

Sean, Ryan and Emily (Ryan's birthday :-)) 

Sarah & Shannon 

Birthday boy, Ryan & Sarah

you know who we are! 

'cuz we're the three best friends that anyone could ever have....(hangover movie... lol) 

hey hey hey now !! hahah

Riding Sarah's daughter's bike LOL
Def helped me prepare for Saturday's bike riding!  

good thing that bike had training wheels on, or that could have gotten ugly LOL 

And I'm OUT! 

Friday morning we met up with Sean's sister, Megan and drove south to Colorado Springs to walk/hike around Garden of the Gods. It really is just amazing to see all this in person because pictures can't describe it. 

OUR DRIVE TO GARDEN OF THE GODS, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO

GARDEN OF THE GODS

Kaya loves walking with her doggy backpack on... she is very important!! 

Sean's sister, Megan

Looks like a fish!!!! 

try one...

try two.... and that was enough ha 

the three legged lab wanted to get out and meet Kaya
he was so sweet! he is 2 yr old and his owner rescued him, but isn't sure how he lost his leg 

trying to get her to jump up on the rock, but obviously... that didn't work out ha

balancing rocks 

crazy watermelon devil! 

what is this??? haha

Castle Rock

After Garden of the Gods we drove back up to Denver and had saw Megan's apartment and had lunch with her and  her boyfriend, Ryan, and Ryan's dad, Roger. It was a beautiful day out had a great time relaxing and catching up! GREAT to see you Megan and GREAT meeting you Ryan and Roger!! :-) 

LUNCH IN DENVER

Kaya, Shannon, Sean, Megan, Ryan, Roger 

we have NO idea what this sign means! LOL 

road trippin'  

KROSS KOUNTRY WITH KAYA- TIERD!!!! 

Friday night we heading back up to Mike's house in Ft. Collins. Unfortunately, Mike was stuck at work Friday night, so Leslie, Sean and I just took it easy and watched a movie and got to bed early! We definitely were in need of a good solid night's sleep! Our bodies are all out of whack from being on the road for almost 2 weeks now, changing time zones and being up late and then getting up early!! But WOW we are having such a blast!!! Saturday Mike, Sean, Leslie and I all rode bikes around downtown Ft. Collins and going to Taste of Ft. Collins !! VERY fun , exhausting day!

FORT COLLINS, CO

Sean trying to run up behind to get into the picture too LOL 

At this bar that has a ton of bumper stickers and a lot of them are really funny...
but not the first one: VA is for lovers!!! xoxox

Kisses from Tommy!!! 

ON OUR WAY BACK TO DENVER: it has been pretty cloudy out so we haven't really been able to get any good pictures of the mountains...and again, pictures don't do any justice to what we have actually seen! 

So, we decided to add one more stop to our trip, recommended by my Uncle Gregory! Heading to Monument Valley right now! This added another 10 hours to our trip, and since we were going back through Denver anyways we were able to go to Sarah and Ryan's daughter, Quinn's, baptism today and break up that drive! So, this morning Mike, Leslie, Sean, me and Kaya got up early and drove back down to Denver  and then after the mass, we all went over there and hung out for a bit with them and their families.  So glad we were able to come back down for this! :-) and Mike and Leslie thank you so much for having us too!! had such a great time hanging out in Ft. Collins! :-) 

Sean and I are on our way to Monument Valley, but are going to stop in Grand Junction for the night which is only about 3 and half hours from Denver. We will get to Monument Valley tomorrow, it should take us about 4-5 hours to get there. We'll hike around and check it out and depending on how we feel we will either find a place around there to stay for the night or just continue on to Grand Canyon which is another 3 hours from there. But, we are thinking we will continue on and pitch our tent tomorrow :-( yes this is "the" camping night! haha Everyone in Colorado that we saw  THANK YOU for adding to our wonderful kross kountry trip!! we are pooped!!! HA 

just crossed over the continental divide. and I think I need a little nap now! hope you are all doing well!! xoxoxo