Colorado--Part 1

After Utah we went to Colorado.  Eric's grandpa had recently had his 80th birthday and wanted to get his whole family together for a reunion.  We drove down to Winter Park, CO with Eric's parents and family to spend a week with them and aunts and uncles and cousins--we had a blast.  Winter Park, CO is a ski town and is up in the mountains--it was gorgeous.  We had so much fun hiking in the Rocky Mountains, spending time with family, we took Ethan and Kailey white-water rafting (which they LOVED), etc.  Here are some pictures of some of the hikes we went on.  Also, you will see us all in orange shirts--the front say Nelson Family Reunion and then on the back it has our name and a number which indicates what number we came into the family.  I thought it was such a great idea and it was so fun wherever we went, because we could always find each other!!

Family picture in Rocky Mountains--it was funny, we hiked to a waterfall called "Adam's Fall", but it turns out that Eric and I had hiked the same hike 7 years ago with my family when we all went backpacking!

The kids were very well-loved with all of their great-aunts and uncles around and Eric's cousins!!

Hiking--we took the kids  on another hike to a lake that was 5 miles roundtrip and actually a more difficult hike than we thought--a lot of rock-climbing and hills--they did fantastic, but we were grateful for all the adult helpers along!!

Eric and I--matching shirts!!

Gramps and Granny--Eric's grandparents who are so awesome!!  We had such a fun week thanks to them!!

Grandpa Nelson and I throwing Kailey up in the air.

Colorado was just GORGEOUS!!!

The hike we took the kids on to the lake had a lot of waterfalls leading up to it!!

We reached the lake!!  Eric's cousin was so funny and hiked the whole way carrying this huge watermelon.  So at the top we had watermelon, which tasted SOOOO good--we all had a lot because he didn't want to carry any back with him!

Cade and his little buddy, Cousin Rhea!

The kids and Rhea

So exciting--the hike is almost over!!

Kailey and Daddy on our hike

Gramps giving the boys a hug!!

Again, we just had the best time in Colorado.  Gramps rented a huge cabin and there ended up being like 28 of us that all stayed there together--it was so fun!  I'll blog more about the other fun things we did!