My Once Upon a Time...

While we were in Colorado, the boys and I tried White Water Rafting for the very first time. There was an area that was too dangerous for Finn to participate in, so him and I stepped off the boat for that part, but as you can see, Fox had an absolute blast.  It was a 3 hour tour, but felt much shorter than that, and while Finn will tell you that it was "terrible", his smiles and squeals told a different story. This about sums up the rest of the night...haha. On our last day in Colorado, we went to Purgatory Ski Resort, which was right across the street from our rental. Finn was super excited to do some more mining, he couldn't get enough. We went up the ski lift and while it was a very long ride, it was probably one of my favorite parts of the day. It was so peaceful and beautiful. Poor Fox had to ride by himself, but he said he didn't mind. The alpine slides were next, Finn was super nervous about doing it and told me to go slow, but once we were on it, he kept yelli...

We spent our first day in Durango exploring the town and neighborhood where we stayed. Finn saw these pride flags and yelled out "Look Mama, it's the kindness flags". I'm not sure who taught him that, but I thought it was cute. Finn had saved all of his birthday and Christmas money and went wild shopping at all the local stores. He had the time of his life, and was so confident going up to sales people asking questions, and paying with his own money. He told me it makes him "feel like a man" haha. Finn loves mining for goal, and we found this cute spot inside a gift shop, and even Fox was into it. I brought the boys' scooters and we spent some time cruising along the river. In the evening, I suckered the boys into taking a walk with me around our neighborhood lake. There were lots of mosquitoes and they boys were freaking out, laughing and running away from them. It was so funny, they acted like they had never seen a bug before. We found a playground ins...