4 Eagle Ranch

We spent a week in Vail, CO, with my family in August. What an awesome place! We had such a great time doing all kinds of activities. I'm just starting to sift through all my pictures so there will be more posts on Colorado, but to start off with here are the pictures from our evening at 4 Eagle Rach.

The ranch is about 25 minutes from Vail nestled back in the mountains away from the freeway and all the hustle and bustle. What a fabulous fun place! Wednesday nights are their "Western Family night." Here is 1 view of the rach. These were all the buildings. Right at the entrance was this cool metal horse that all the kids could fit on! The littl red headed boy sitting with Kate is my nephew, Harper.

Megan, Brooke, Harper, Kate, Brandon, Carli--what a troop of kids!

They had a fun, very primitive, playground for the kids. The seesaw was a hit. Here's Kate taking a little break on it. Carli is on the other end.

Carli going down the slide

There were also gorgeous horses on the ranch. We decided to take a ride. :)Kate, Megan, and I went on a half hour ride up into the hills around the ranch. It was really great. The scenery was really gorgeous.There were unlimited hay rides. We went on them many, many, many times. :)Kate and Megan get up close to the horses pulling the wagon. They were big!Here are the two clowns on the hay ride. :) Megan loves to make silly faces for the camera lately. Kate had a really rough time with the dry weather. She couldn't stop licking her lips. She looked like this for a couple weeks. It was pretty bad.Megan and the scenery

Carli got to go on a pony ride! She loved it!

Carli and Harper on their poniesThey had the yummiest grilled corn for us to eat all night long. It was soooo good! The kids all had more than 1--so did I. :) Looks like Carli is licking this one. lol!Carli helping Brooke eat some corn. Brooke loved it, too!

A close up of the corn eating. Couldn't resist a picture of those adorable lips!They had a guy singing for the kids and they could play with these instruments on the blanket while he was doing his songs. There were tons of kids all the over the blanket at the beginning. Brooke stayed there for quite a while with Grandma and eventually she got her turn with the instruments.She loved the tamborines!

During dinner there was live music in the other room and we could here it in the room that we were in. Here are Harper and Brooke dancing together! It was the most precious thing!!! Brooke loved it!Harper was having fun, too, until he realized that Brooke's hands were sticky and here he is wiping them on his jacket. :) Look at Brooke's face! She loved her cousin dancing with her!

The kids loved roasting marshmallows around the fire. They were sure yummy! Brandon and Megan are both in this shot.Brandon inspecting his marshmallow.Done!Kate's turn

Brandon found a couple boys to hang out with. The driver of this wagon let them ride with him several times.

This was a really great place. We were there for 4 hours and we only left because we couldn't see where the kids were running off to anymore! They never got tired or bored while we were there. They still talk about our evening at the ranch. Next time we go up to Colorado we will most definitely go there again!

Easter Breakfast

This year we made a yummy quiche for Easter breakfast. We have made it a couple times before and it is a favorite! Here are the kids patiently waiting for it to be done.

And here is the finished product!!! SO Yummy. If you MUST try it because your mouth is watering you must go here and try it out. You will not be sorry! ;) Courtesy of Paula Deen so you KNOW it is good.

We have tried this quiche with bacon, sausage or ham so just throw in what you have in the fridge.

For Easter dinner between sessions of conference we had some friends over form church for a potluck. All the food was so yummy--especially all the scrumptious desserts! Seriously, it was all so good. Unfortunately, I didn't take one single picture of dinner at all (or the people there)--whoops! I was too busy eating and enjoying the company of great friends. ;)

Eggs

The kids love to color eggs every year. This year we were a little late getting to it (Sunday night), but we still got it done. :)

Megan was proud of this egg in particular because it was a little speckled and she worked hard getting the colors just right.

Kate mixed her colors a lot.

These are Carli's eggs
Carli worked very hard to get her eggs just right. :)

Brandon watching his egg

Easter

We had a lovely Easter weekend. The kids get some candy and a book in the baskets. This year they also got flip flops to wear to the pool this year.

Megan Instead of a book this year, Kate got a 3-D puzzle
Carli is into weird faces when I take her picture lately. A little disturbing, but still cute, I suppose. Here she is with her basket.

Another weird look for the camera. Hmmm...

Brooke was loving her soft and fuzzy Easter lamb! She has remnants of a chocolate egg running down her chin, too.

She loved all the chocolate!

Taking a little break to snuggle her blankie and suck her thumb for a minute. So sweet. :)

Brandon trying to open an egg.

Today I watched "The Testaments" and enjoyed watching the account of the Savior and the people in the Americas at the time of his death and resurrection. What an amazing gift our Savior gave us. Because he suffered in the Garden of Gethsemane, because he died for us, because he rose again from the tomb, we know that we can return to live with him and our Father in Heaven after we die. I am so grateful for this knowledge and for my membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.