No Hike This Sunday

Hey All,
 So we went for a small 30 minute hike on Thursday, just to get out of the house. Not really worth mentioning except that today we stayed home. No we arent getting lazy, or down by the weather (actually its pretty nice out), it just this weekend we are having Emma's birthday celebration. Her actual birthday is on Tuesday, but we are having our family party today as next weekend none of us will be in town. The Grandparents are headed to Ohio next week and we will be going to Colorado.

 A little back story on the trip to Colorado. This Summer we went to Washington for a week to celebrate Lulu's birthday. It was an excellent trip even though we had to leave one of our own in the loving hands of Grammy and Grandpa. We didn't feel that Jack was quite ready for a 17 hour road trip, the hiking he could of handled, the car trip well that would of destroyed Kevin and I. So when it came time to plan Emma's birthday we assumed that she would want her traditional lavish birthday party with all her friends and class in attendance. When we started talking to her about it she asked if we could go to Washington with Jack, we told her that was a little much for this time of year, so she settled on Colorado (with the promise of Chuck E. Cheese). So this year Emma decided to forgo the her traditional party and instead we are going to
Colorado. As promised all family vacations will be National Park centered, so we will be visiting Florissant Fossil Beds National Park, as well as Rocky Mountain National Park. We are also going to squeeze in the Denver Zoo and the Denver Meusem of Nature and Science. It going to be a quick three day trip (no school Friday) sometime next week I will post it all here. Wish us Luck and of course a special Happy Birthday to our 5  going on 14 year old Emma!

Emma 12/04