Colorado Trip

This vacation started out on an early Monday morning and it also ended on an early Monday morning. We went to Granby CO to visit cousins. Many fun things were to be done. We went boating to Shadow Mountain Reservoir and some of the boys jumped into the frigid temps to wake-board and water-ski. They had a blast. The kids got to play with their cousins and we enjoyed the peace and quiet of mountain living. One day we got to visit Rocky Mountain National Park. We had an awesome tour guide who kept the kids entertained with all of the info she had on early pioneers of the wilderness before it was a national park. Then the kids also earned their Jr. Ranger badges and found out that the powdery stuff on the outside of aspen trees is a great sunscreen. Who knew! We boated some more and ate some great burgers and ice-cream on the shore of Grand Lake. Thanks Burns Bunch for the great time! Our adventures continued on to Castle Rock,CO where we stayed with wonderful friends and got to catch up on life. We went to a water-park where there were water slide races, toilet bowls, half-pipe water slides, water-fights and lots of laughs. The Colorado Rockies got our attention in a 13 inning game where the boys and dad in our family got to sit 2nd row behind home plate next to the dugout with their friends while the rest of us poured water bottles over our heads while sitting in the "rock pile" (cheap seats). It was a scorcher but we had a ball at the ball park! And the Rockies won! All the girls headed with our American Girls dolls to the American Girl store and then dinner after at the Cheesecake Factory. Ainsley couldn't get enough of the store and all of the fun things they have to look at and buy (Her mom liked it just as much:) The pictures from this trip are spread between a few cell phones, an ipod and other peoples cameras as we forgot ours at home:( Hopefully we can gather them all to post a few. Thanks Mickelsen's. It was fun as always!

In With the Old

Since my dad turned 80 this year we had a fantastic surprise party for him. He was very surprised and had a good time. All of us (siblings and kids) were there and we got to reminisce and view all of our pictures from our growing up years so now I have them scrolling on my computer as my screen saver. It is fun to look back at the hair do's (if you want to call them that) and the memories. The first pic is of my parents in Paris, ID with my two oldest brothers. The next is of me and my awesome out of control hair on Easter (check out the wallpaper)and the third is pretty obvious we had just returned from a fabulous fishing trip and the spoils of it, me with my three older brothers(and yes that is a piano in our kitchen, we were remodeling for a long time). Moving on is me in the middle with my two cousins, Susan and Rachel having just had our hair french braided by our wonderful Grandma Stucki on a camping trip. Then comes one of my little sis, Charlynn. I had to post this pic because my little Ains reminds me of her:)The last is one of the many family pictures we posed for on vacation while my dad ran to hop in the picture before the camera timer went off! So there you have it, a few of the old Burns pics. Enjoy.