End of Summer Catch Up: Part 1

Another month has flown by without a single blog post... a lot happened in the past month too, so I better catch up before I get too behind.

First of all, Benny boy had a birthday at the end of July...

He had been asking if it was his birthday yet for months (time is a hard concept to grasp still) because he wanted to get a "big" bike now that he can ride without training wheels...

I still can't believe he's 5 already! There was a time when I wasn't really sure either one of us would survive the "torturous 3's", but here we are and I can tell the 5's are gonna be "fabulous".

We had his birthday party a little early because his actual birthday was the day we left on our summer vacation road trip to Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. The first day was about a 12 hour drive to southern Colorado to visit my mom's family and go to the Manassa Pioneer Day Celebration. The boys loved going to the parade, on the carnival rides, and playing with their cousins in Granny and Papa's back yard. They seriously spent hours upon hours out there "building" stuff on Papa's work trailer. This was Sadie's first trip to Manassa and we just had to get a 4 generations picture of all the "Darlenes"...

Darlene Gay, Brenda Darlene, Brianne Darlene, and Sadie Darlene

Sadie especially enjoyed napping with GG and listening to the live music in the park while her brothers were at the carnival...

After a couple days of "Celebrating" in Colorado, we headed out on the road again (this time about 8-9 hours) to our next destination: Midway, Utah. 

To be continued...