Kayla's Mommy/Daughter Weekend

 

As Kayla moves from girlhood to womanhood, we decided it was time for a weekend of fun and girl time.  Chris agreed to let me to take her for a bit of a staycation.  She came over and we went to her preferred restaurant, The Melting Pot. 

They gave us a fun slice of cheesecake to celebrate her birthday the following month as well. 

Fondue fun!

We noticed the lovely flowers blooming in our yard.

And the following morning we headed south to hike! We noticed pretty flowers there too!

beautiful lilacs!  My favorite!

Seven Falls

I love you, my sweet beautiful young lady. 

 Everyday my heart overflows with love and gratitude that God saw fit to bless me with you.  

You are such a treasure and it was incredible to get to experience a beautiful treasure of God's creative craftsmanship in nature with his beautiful creation of YOU. 

I love adventuring with you

"You visit the earth and water it, you greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; 

you provide the people with grain, for so you have prepared it." 

-Psalm 65:9

Kayla, thank you for this beautiful time.  What a precious bit of time spent together laughing, adventuring, and simply being.  

August 2020 recap

 After we got back from our CA trip, Chris was able to take the oldest three girls on a camping trip.  They stopped by the church that he helped renovate a couple summers ago.  Still looks beautiful.  

And they had a lovely time out in nature together

Camping has its discomforts, but it's so much fun and so beautiful when you get to take nature in so easily right outside your tent door.  

tree climbing

          

fun at the park with neighbor buddies

Colorado always has some lovely clouds

I tried my hand at making Indian food which was really fun

morning walks with Kolbe usually involve a park stop

The pool reopened (limited and by reservation only)

We all signed up for the same slot and had some fun together

This is Elise in a nutshell.  

She filled a monkey costume with dress up clothes so it looks like a giant stuffed animal iteself.  

I'm slowly learning how to relax.  I didn't realize this was a skill I didn't really possess. 

Mexican food 

I'm having a lot more fun with cooking these days 

All the fires burning in the summer made for some interesting sun views

Kayla still likes to read to Kolbe (most of the time)

Sophie got her first ever camping trip with Daddy. 

They had some sweet views

She was so excited to have this special time. 

Just so beautiful 

Back at home, I told the girls we could set up the big tent and have the neighbors over 

It was harder than I thought it would be to set up a tent  (mostly by myself)

But eventually we got it up and the girls had a blast playing games, talking, and laughing

Kolbe and I played games together inside

Reading with Daddy

Chris found these funny gummies that you can make into funny faces

more Sequence

Chris got a new electric guitar

It looks good on him

Our dear neighbors and friends moved to Florida

You will all be missed.  

And since I'm writing this months later, you are missed. 

We could not ask for better neighbors.  

Happy that though we are no longer neighbors, we are still great friends

explored a new (to us) park

                                                     

Hiking our favorite local hike

I never stop loving it

And Kolbe got this new track that he LOVES

Kayla and our neighbor Rebecca practiced some babysitting earlier in the month too.  

It was a good first run.  

And that's pretty much August in a nutshell