Steamboat Springs

We went to Steamboat Springs for a family vacation.  Here are some highlights.

We arrived safe and sound.

All along the road on our way there we saw signs posted for a certain store, so we had to go check it out.  Yes, DJ did walk away owning this horse. 

 DJ riding a horse out in front of the store.

 We played in the Yampa River.  It actually wasn't that cold.

 The next day we had a photo excursion.

We came upon an old property for sale so we decided we had permission to be on the property and take some pictures.

 Since we are starting up the process to adopt again we needed a current family picture and thought this would be a great time to get one.  Here are the shots we got.

 This one is inside the creepy old house.  We didn't venture upstairs because we were scared of what we would find or fall through the stairs.

 At about this point DJ was done taking pictures and I don't blame him.  He has his mom and dad telling him to look at a camera with no one behind.  I am amazed we got some good shots.

 Steamboat country

 It is a beautiful place!

 We went to a botanical park.

 Here are 2 shots that I thought are amazing of the flowers we saw.

 Playing around after the flower park.

 DJ loves baseball so when we saw this diamond we had to stop.

 I love this picture of him.

 We went to a small park close-by and thought it would be fun to try a shot on the merry-go-round.  I think it is a super fun shot!

 

The next day we hiked up to a waterfall.

  It was all uphill, but very pretty!  This is the upper falls.

 This is the lower falls.  You can see this from a overlook.

 After the hike we went to a rodeo.  DJ loved seeing the cowboys riding their horse.

 Steer wrestling

 The clown and his pony.  DJ now loves the word 'pony'.

Here we are enjoying the rodeo.

  We most certainly need to go to more rodeos.

 Each morning we had something special happen right outside our room.

 Here is DJ pointing it out.

 He thought it was so neat to see a hot air balloon everyday.  We would watch it land each morning.

 Of course we couldn't have gone on vacation without going swimming.  

Here is DJ after jumping into the pool to Daddy.

 DJ is such a big boy.  He is learning to stay afloat in the pool all by himself!  We all enjoyed having him 'kick, kick, kick' to us.

 Here he is kicking his way to Mommy without any help.

 He kicked his way across the entire pool a couple of times.  And yes, he was exhausted that night!

  We had an amazing vacation and are sad that it is over.  DJ did very good on the 6 hour car rides both ways for being so young.  We are looking forward to going back someday!