Colorado Springs, Colorado

Benjamin had military training in Colorado Springs, CO the end of April and he got permission for all of us to go!!!  That is definitely my favorite kind of military training.  We stopped at Curtis and Ch'Ree's on the way down and spent a wonderful day with them.

Zane was by far the fastest on our "walk" around the block.

Zane and Ayva and Abbie and Isaac got to have meals at the kids only table.

Handsome Couple!!!

Cute Miley

Zane had us all go out to see the beautiful sunset, this is on Curtis and Ch'Ree's porch so no sunset. =)

We left Curtis and Ch'ree's house early in the morning so our children would sleep the 7.5 hours we had left to Colorado Springs.  It actually worked pretty well.

 While Benjamin was in training we went exploring.  We went to the zoo, the coolest part was feeding the giraffes.  You could buy a few "crackers" for the giraffes, of course Abbie and Isaac both tried the crackers.  I guess I shouldn't have called them crackers.

Abbie was trying to feed the birds, there was a little dab of food on the end of the stick and the idea was the birds were going to perch on the stick and eat off the stick.  They must have recently fed the birds or the food was yucky because not one bird was interested.

The next day we went to "The Garden of the God's."  It is a state park with all this really neat red rock formation.  Abbie and Isaac LOVED it.  They climbed through a miniature slot canyon, climbed trees, saw a snake (we think it was a bow snake?). 

Abbie said she was afraid of snakes until we saw this one then she could not get close enough, I almost panicked when she tried to climb down off the path.  She said to me, "Mom I need to SEE it."