Sept

Morrison Cider Festival - Bryce was into the band (him and one other kid were the only fans)

silly faces

Paying with The Lorax outside

Bryce turns 4

Be warned - there a lot of pictures in this post (they're in chronological order, I think)...

Bryce had a few celebrations this year. His birthday falls over Labor Day weekend, and his party was the following weekend.  So we got to do a lot things:  We hiked at Red Rocks, went to the lake, went horseback riding, had some cake and opened presents at home (twice) and had a party at the zoo! The weekend before his birthday Bryce went to his first Rockies game and we watched the USA pro-cycling challenge - I'm including some of those pictures too.

More Cow Bell

Go Rockies

having a hot dog at the game

Red Rocks

Big Soda Lake

Bryce's first horseback ride

Venus Fly Trap (with fly) from Grammy and Papa

Happy Birthday Bryce

yum

Luigi helping out

New Basketball Hoop - yeah

New Little Piggy

Bryce named him The Lorax

Zoo Party

Learning about some critters

parachute time - everyone had so much fun

playing at the zoo

MEXICO

I'm a little late posting these pictures - but we went to Mexico in early August and had a wonderful time.  Bryce loved snorkeling, catching sand crabs and snails, and playing in the water and sand. We toured the ruins in Tulum, and saw 1000 iguanas. We even got to see a huge sea turtle come onto our beach and dig her nest.

beach in front of our house

having lunch pool side

bar swing

baby lemur

little snail

smile

our house had a pool - this was a big hit

night snorkeling

the whole gang

snorkeling - Chris and Bryce saw a stingray

Missouri

 

slip and slide

water fight

4 generations

caught a frog

cousins

tree swing 

relaxing after a big lunch

Branson Airport