Vacation time!

Warning......Lots of pictures ahead :) This year our vacation took us on a 12 hour drive to Vail, Colorado! We love Colorado, we would move there in a heartbeat! What made this trip even greater was the fact that our family from Wisconsin and Iowa met us out here! How we choose Vail was due to my cousin. She is dating a profession triathlete (crazy and absurd!) and we really wanted to meet him. We couldn't think of a better way to do so than to go to one of his competitions :)

 We all stayed at a fun, super family friendly resort with our condos close to each other. Goodness how it made us sad to not live close to each other. We got spoiled just walking over and walking in each others homes.

 I love mountain vacations because they are so outdoors. We spent time hiking, biking, having beautiful picnics and just being lazy having fun together.

 How exciting to watch Brandon compete! He finished 2nd place!!

Out order but, we took 2 days to get to Colorado. Lo and behold a Dairy Queen was just up the street! How perfect! And delicious! :)

 My aunt threw a birthday party for Aubrie :)

 The day after the triathlon, there were a couple trail runs. Here is our family represented with the 5k and 8k :)

 And there was even a fun run for Brody! Mike carried him most of the way, but gosh! I was so proud of my boys :)

 Brody got a medal for his accomplishment ;) Poor guy missed the ceremony due to needing to go potty ;)

 In the middle of our condos there was a beautiful barbecue area. Family meals, just the greatest!

I'm thinking this is the first of many annual family vacations! We had a great, great, great time!!!!