For the next several weeks, posting will be sporadic as the kids and I embark upon our month-long adventure to Canada and back again. Summer is flying by waaaaaay too quickly and when we return we’ll already be planning back-to-school.
A few highlights: Taking Hadley to KURIOS - Cabinet of Curiosities. It was a crazy, stormy night and we were warmly tucked away inside. This was my fourth Cirque du Soleil performance but my favorite part was watching Hadley’s reaction. She’s such a creative, imaginative kid who’s constantly shot down in a linear world. It was magic to see this dreamscape unfold where creativity is rewarded and heralded.
Now that it’s summer, I’m not super strict with bedtime and she’d stay up all night creating and drawing if I’d let her.
Adventures near Clear Creek following Avid4 Adventure day camp. Sadly, they weren’t in Clear Creek…the water levels as just too high!
And yep, Avid4 Adventure was a blast!
Summer hiking group at Evergreen Lake
and another at Maxwell Falls.
We had an amazing trip to pickup Hadley from Camp Chief Ouray. More details next week but we had a blast ziplining, canoeing, summer tubing and more at our beloved YMCA of the Rockies! First, at Snow Mountain Ranch. 
Zipline
Trail Ridge Road, the highest continuous paved road in the U.S.
Then, at the Estes Park Center.
Gaga Ball
Bode: ruining iconic photos
We had a blast previewing the Children’s Museum of Denver’s new 30,000-square foot outdoors playscape Joy Park. Bode and his buddy Porter were the very first kids to ride the mini zipline!
The favorite features were that zipline, building a dam in the stream and digging a volcano in the sand dunes and filling it with water. My kids were the dirtiest and messiest out of anyone. I’ve decided to view it was a talent, not a curse.
Until laundry time.
White Fence Farm opened up Granny’s, a new candy shop, that we just had to check out as well.
Here’s for hoping the hoping the rest of our summer is just as sweet.
I'm a Canadian-born mom of two, former Denver Post columnist, family travel writer, editor of MileHighMamas.com and 9News contributor. Expert on all things Utah, Denver, family and travel. Lover of laughter and life. Happily married to a man obsessed with growing The Great Pumpkin. 