Labor Day

Our friends Dave and Nicole are moving here from DC and were here this weekend, so we got to spend some time with them on Monday. First we got to go see the house they contracted on (right around the corner from ours!). Then we packed up the car with lots of food and headed down to Castlewood Canyon State Park. It's only about 25 minutes from here and is really pretty. We'd never been before, so it was an adventure for all!

We had a fun picnic and took off on a 2 mile hike that was really fun - a perfect length actually! Here are some of the shots we got.

What a beautiful day!

We be hikers!

Aaron, Devony, Nicole, Dave

Goofing around

What a pretty canyon!

We had a great time and it totally inspired me. By the end I was ready to buy an annual pass and go run a mile (despite my inability to breathe in the high mountain air). We had a great time though!

After we got back from that, I made cookies (after sending Aaron to find eggs since he ate the last of them Monday morning) and we took off to a BBQ at our friend's house. It was great, despite the fact that the tiny microbursts we usually have turned into an enormous storm which found us all huddling under umbrellas or in the gazebo until we decided it wasn't going to stop raining and we'd better make a run for it. We all grabbed the food and took off for the house. We started right back up again inside and had tons of fun though! Obviously a great party since people didn't leave when they got wet! What fun. Let's always have Mondays off ok?