Estes Park

We just got back from Estes Park, CO for a Butler family reunion. It was beautiful and perfect weather while we were there and we had a lot of fun spending time together with all of Jared's siblings and their spouses. It was an adult-only reunion (except babies under 1 year) so we left Abbie and Leah at home with some friends and had a few days with just Porter. He was a great traveler, especially after we missed our flight coming home and had to spend a lot of unplanned time in the airport and on overbooked planes. It was a great vacation, otherwise, and I already miss that fresh, clean mountain air. Here we are on top of a mountain:

The beautiful view. We took a tram up and walked around the top for a while.

Jared swore that if you held a peanut up in the air, a bird would swoop down and take it right out of your hand. He stood like this for a couple minutes waiting for it to happen....pretty funny! I don't know if I'll believe it until I see it!

The chipmunks did eat the peanuts right out of your hand, though. Some of them had huge cheeks and were pretty chubby.

Porter hanging out with the men, waiting for the women to finish shopping in all the little touristy shops

I think someone was drinking a little too much tequila when they made this sign! We ate at this Mexican restaurant one night and it was pretty good (and no, we didn't drink any "tequela")!

Racing against a few family members on this huge slide at the fun park

And the winner is....ME!

We did lots of other fun things like hanging out in the hot tub at our cabin, staying up late singing songs to Grandpa's guitar, going to church together, eating out, shopping and chatting and driving around to see all the sights. We all had a great time without all our kids (we love them, really we do) but it was fun to spend time together without all the distractions and work that it takes to care for 22 kids under the age of 14. I say we do this every year!