Colorado History Museum- one of our favorites!

 Back in June, we got to go to one of our favorites! 

(Can you tell I have a lot of catching up to do on my blog- it's August 28th!)

Our kids just LOVE this museum and we try to go every year. 

We had free tickets this time around which is always a Win Win! 

They had a really cool toy exhibit and it took me right back to my childhood! 

Just love our city and the cool places to explore.

Happy {Preteen} Birthday to my twins!

Sophia and Arianna turned eleven this week! 

Hard to believe that I have been a mom for 11 years- feels a lot longer! 

 We enjoyed our traditional birthday breakfast 

than spent the day hanging out and dinner at Red Robins.

 The next day, they had friends over for pizza and cake and we all went to Lakeside till 10:30PM and then had a big sleepover. It was fun. 

 Bemis Library gives free tickets to Lakeside which is awesome and I never used to use them because I thought the park was so old, but the last 2 years, we have gone and the kids have LOVED it! (doesn't matter to them how old the park is and you can't beat free!)

 The vintage signs are super cool! 

 The kids brought their GoPro camera on all the rides- we have TONS of footage! 

Here is a cool video I made:)

 We also celebrated with our MC this week and the twins little friend, "J", baked them brownies.

We celebrated with Grandma and Grandpa as well...

Colorado Family Vacation Part Three: Zapata Falls and Sand Dunes Pool Hot Springs

 A short while from the Sand Dunes is a cool little Hike to Zapata Falls. It is super short and upon arriving you think that the little waterfall is all there is. Well, we were told if we waded through the rushing stream (up to our calves) that we could enter the cave and see the real falls. I guess in the summer, its not like this (a little less water). 

 It was scary but we made it- 

Ella was not happy about it at all. 

The sound in the cave was crazy loud! 

 After the dunes and the waterfall, we were tired and sore and the Sand Dunes Pool was the perfect spot to relax! The pool is 98 degrees and is fed by a natural hot spring that they need to actually cool in order to swim in! It felt SOOO good on our sore muscles. The weather got pretty cloudy and the mountains looked amazing as the backdrop!