Sunday, July 29, 2007

Camping at Shadow Mountain

This weekend we took Riley on his very first camping trip up to Shadow Mountain Reservoir, just past Granby. It's a beautiful drive up there, although you can see the toll that the Mountain Pine Beetle infestation has had on all the trees. All the Marsh's (Rick and Kathie, Brad, Nicole and Owen, Steve, Riley and I) along with our friends Jenn and Nick headed up Friday afternoon. Side note, MISSY put up the brand-new mac-daddy tent!

The first thing the boys wanted to do was go fishing with Bubba. Steve was the only one who caught a fish all weekend, even though Nick felt he was "destined" to catch one.
A little after-fishing snack. The boys were so excited to spend the weekend playing!

On Saturday, after Jenn and I had had enough of Dozer and Harley dragging us through swamps while the guys fished, we headed back to camp. We got back just in time to rescue our belongings to the safety of our car-tarp shelter before the skies opened up like crazy!

Jenn and Nick cooked a fab dinner of red beans and rice! Thanks guys!

There were tree stumps all around (trees that had been cut down after being killed by the beetles), so Riley decided to pretend he was a tree!

Beautiful clouds after the rain. This is what Colorado is all about!

Some beautiful sunset trees!

And some of the mountain wildflowers that were all around the area.

The whole Marsh clan! Owen, Nicole, Brad, Dakota dog, Rick, Kathie, Steve, Missy, Riley and Harley dog

Our little family!

We had a great time hanging out, playing games and just relaxing!

3 comments:

Charline said...

I love the picture of little Ri pretending he is a tree! He's too much!! Beautiful pictures! YAY BLOG!!

Anonymous said...

We have really enjoyed seeing what your family has been doing all summer! What great pictures and GREAT memories you will have!!

Mike and Cindy

Anonymous said...

We were out all day yesterday, and when we got back home at 10:45PM dad check and told me you had updated your blog. How do you find time and energy?

Great pictures, Missy, I did wonder if you'd gotten any rain.

I liked the Riley tree picture too.