Midnight Bikeride!

For the 6th year in a row, we rode the "Starlight Spectacular" midnight bikeride, which is a fundraiser event for Trails and Open Space Coalition...a great organization! The Hellands (sans kiddos), Tiana, and our fam (including Kate) braved the cool-front, drizzle, and rain and survived the ride, and had a yummy pancake breakfast afterwards. We took the "short route" -- 14 miles -- cuz the weather just stunk. I must say, this was my least favorite year to do the ride. Cold/rainy -- no thanks. Kate stayed awake pretty much the whole time. We didn't get back home until 4am! Luckily we ALL slept in the next day!

oh yes, those girls PASSED OUT on the way home!

Rafting

Yesterday, we ditched Kate and went rafting through Brown's Canyon with our friends, the Hellands. It was Carolyn's FIRST rafting trip! How many years have we lived in Colorado?? Oh yah - SIX! About time! Check out the fun pics.. we had a blast!

(in case you can't make us out, Gene and I are in the left/top part of the photos)

Hi-FIVE Sox the Fox!

Went to a Sky Sox baseball game yesterday -- and Kate was ecstatic to get to high-five the mascot, Sox the Fox.

Shadow

Poor ole dog never gets in the blog anymore -- this is what she's up to 90% of the time these days...

Date Night Charity Event

Carolyn got dolled up and went to meet Gene at the Broadmoor, where he'd been playing a round of *fancy* golf all afternoon as a fundraiser for Jr. League. There's a pic below of Carolyn and her pal, Marne, who arranged the event.

Easter in the Mountains...

Click on the photo to see a slideshow from Walgreens site. Here are pics from our zippy trip up to Breckenridge for Easter weekend. We just HAD to check out Colorado's LARGEST egg hunt at Copper Mountain. Supposedly they throw 50,000 eggs around the mountain -- kids AND adults can go find 'em -- even out on the slopes, and there's coveted GOLDEN eggs which have ski passes and such. We didn't go skiing....just let Kate fight the under-5-year-olds for her own Easter junk.

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo - trip # ...

(Click on the picture for a slideshow from Walgreens).
We visited the Zoo for the 3rd time in 2010. We went with our friends, the Flights. Kate just loves Olivia - wanted to hold her hand the whole time. It was so cute! Two baby giraffes were born just two days before we arrived. We got to see one of them inside the stinky giraffe house with it's mama... precious! Kate REALLY enjoys feeding the giraffes and is less intimidated by them each time we go :)