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Little helper

robfelty — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 22:24:09 +0000

Spencer and Rob pushing the wheelbarrow

Spencer has been quite helpful lately. The last couple weeks we have spent a fair amount of time getting ready for winter. We took out the garden about a week ago, and this past weekend I raked a bunch of leaves, and winterized the swamp cooler. Spencer likes to try out whatever tool I am using. He also likes to wear my gloves. He is getting to the point now where his help actually does help a little bit. It’s pretty exciting. I am of course totally prepared for him to stop wanting to help once he can actually help on his own. But who knows, maybe we’ll get lucky. He is a pretty helpful and sharing kid so far.

Reunion – Elkhorn Lodge

robfelty — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:09:55 +0000

Spencer on a toy horse, Dave, Clare, and mountains

On the last day of the reunion, we took a tour of the Elkhorn Lodge in Estes Park. It is one of the oldest lodges in Estes Park. It was a very interesting mixture of new old, with several large buildings as well as some smaller cabins. They still rent out many of them. After the tour we had a chuckwagon lunch there with cowboy entertainment. Spencer really enjoyed the cowboy music. There were also some spectacular views of the mountains from the lodge, including some beautiful wispy cloud formations.

Reunion – Aspen Brook

robfelty — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 02:17:57 +0000

Spencer also likes playing with the big fuzzy bear at the cabin

In addition to hiking and touring Rocky Mountain National Park, we spent much of the reunion just hanging out in the beautiful cabins that Ellen rented. Here are some more photos from around theh cabins at Aspen Brook.

Reunion – hiking

robfelty — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:53:58 +0000

We hiked to Adams Falls near Grand Lake

Since we were staying right near Rocky Mountain National Park, we had the chance to do some hiking at the recent reunion. Jenny and Thad did some long hikes, but we only did a few short hikes since Spencer had to nap in the middle of the day. On Monday and Friday we hiked a bit straight from the cabin (but forgot our camera both times). On Tuesday we drove through the Park on Trail Ridge Road all the way to Grand Lake. It was a very beautiful drive (though there was some construction). We had lunch in Grand Lake, then hiked to Adams Falls. On Wednesday we attempted to hike around Lily Lake, but it started raining. We had a great time hiking.

Camping at White Ranch

robfelty — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:53:28 +0000

From left: Michelle, Nick, Eva, Mike, Spencer, Rob and Clare

For Independence day this year we went camping with friends. We ended up getting hailed on, but we managed to have a good time anyways. We got all the best parts of camping done: fire, rice & beans, and s’mores. The campsite we had was not very level, so we kept sliding downhill in our tent, which made sleeping hard, but we stayed warm and dry, and woke up to beautiful weather on the 5th of July.