Getting ready for the tour!

An annual tradition in Fort Collins (and now many other cities across the country) is the Tour de Fat. Put on by New Belgium Brewing, the tour is a bike parade to raise money...and also dress up! A group of us decided to be runaway brides this year and have slowly been making our costumes. Jen and I decided to make signs for our bikes so people would know we were runaway brides and not just brides. These signs just started out as a piece of wood...

More to come after the tour on Saturday...I hope to have a lot of fun pictures!!

Baby card

It has been a while since I have made a card....and it was good to be creative again!! I made this for my friend's baby shower.

The Denver Zoo

Jen and I took the girls and Bela and Kavi to the zoo. Bela and Kavi's parents were moving, so we thought it would be a good opportunity to get the girls out of the house so they could unpack! We had a great time!

Cotton candy...yum!!

If you look at the Orangutan's face, you can see a foot of her baby!

Zoe's Point of View

Zoe took over my camera on a ride to preschool on day...here is a little bit of what she saw!

Picnic by the Big Thompson

This bird was almost stalking us...waiting for us to leave so it could eat our leftovers!

Jen and the girls looking at the river from the bridge

View looking east from the bridge

View looking west from where we ate

Saturday July 10: My cousin Laura came out to Colorado to work on her dissertation and was able to visit us for a few days! She used to live in Greeley but now is teaching in West Virginia. It has been a while since we have seen her and we were so excited to see her! We went up the canyon to the Viestenz-Smith Mountain Park which is right along the Big Thompson River. It was my first time going to the park, and it was beautiful! We had such a great time!

Carnival Time!

Addy and Aunt Patsy on the ladybug ride

Jen and Zoe on the super slide!

Jen and Zoe getting ready for the "dumbo" ride...their elephant went up and down, Addy and Aunt Patsy's stayed in the air the whole time!

They loved this car ride!

July 3rd: After the parade, we headed over to the Stampede grounds to have lunch and go to the carnival there. The rides were all $1 and the girls had a great time!

Stampede Parade

Addy being very patriotic!

These longhorns opened the parade. There were probably 20-30 of them being led down the middle of the street...it was quite a sight!

Can you tell who had a donut for breakfast??!!

Zoe...what a look!

Jen and the girls

July 3rd: Jen, Mom, Aunt Patsy, the girls and I went to Greeley for the annual Greeley Stampede Parade. This was the first time I had ever been and it was a lot of fun! The girls go a little bored because they didn't allow candy or anything to be thrown out, but it was still a fun time!