CO/TX Trip

I'm still playing catch up trying to update our blog! There are A LOT of pictures because we were gone for more than two weeks. There is much to document! We went out to Colorado for a week to visit my parents, two brothers, and other family and friends. Oh how we both love it out West!!! This picture is taken right behind my parents house. It is so beautiful to hike around the canyon they live on. BUT.... watch out for snakes. We almost stepped on one. Ehhh!

We went up to the mountains to watch my brother do a triathlon. Camden was sporting his fireman pjs because my brother is a firefighter. That and we woke him up EARLY to get to the race. Iron Man coming up in September!! Go Sean!
After the race we did some other fun things in Estes. First, Camden and I smoked Justin on the slides.Next up, I beat Justin in go carts. While we drove these cars...Camden drove this car!We also spent some time in down town Denver.Best of all we spent time with FAMILY! Camden loves his great grandparents.He was in heaven with all the kids to play with. He has 27 nieces and nephews. That's right, 27! They were all so cute with him and wanted to take care of him.
After about a week in Colorado we all hoped on a plane and flew down to Austin to meet up with the rest of the Searle crew. My brothers picked us up from the airport and we drove straight to Galveston to stay on the beach. It was Camden's first time in the ocean. We had a blast playing in the waves. Justin and I got to ride a stand up jetski out in the ocean for the first time. SOO fun!!Before leaving Galveston to head to Austin we went to Rainforest Cafe, one of my favorite places in the world and officially one of Camden's!

Back in Austin we played just as hard!

We went parasailing

Bull riding
If you're wondering about my awesome boots, those belong to my brother. It's always an adventure with my family and I didn't know that we were going to go ride bulls so I was wearing work out clothes, not jeans and no boots. I actually tripped walking up the ramp to get on the bull and the cowboys laughed and asked if I was sure about this. To which I replied, no! But I did it anyway, and happy to say I made it 8 seconds. I'm not posting the video because while in my mind I was Lane on the movie 8 seconds watching it might look more like a little girl on a merry go round.
Swam in rivers and clearly got too much sun!
This is Justin going down one the "shoots".
Played beach volleyball while the kiddos played in the sand

Swam in my brother's pool

I LOVE my family and miss them like crazy!!!!!!!!