Colorado!

Boulder Colorado

Lara & Eric

We took a lot of weird pictures.

Dinner the first night we just took weird close ups of our faces. We had some good laughs.

I had a few days off this week and Lara and Eric were nice enough to open their house to me. They just moved here last week. I love Colorado. It is so pretty! We had such a fun time! We went swimming, out to eat, to the mall, Boulder, Denver, and more. It was such a nice relaxing weekend. Well worth the drive. Lara and I also hung up and put all the final touches on her apartment. Something I love to do. Organize. :) We are about to go to Witch Which ( A really yummy sandwich place my sister got me hooked on. I got excited when I saw they had one), then to World Market then I will start my drive home. Good way to end the summer. Love you guys! Thanks for being so sweet and letting me crash with you for the weekend!

Zion

Just having a fun weekend!

Some friends we met while there.

Birch Hollow

Amazing sunset on the drive home

Hiking in.

Niece's at Ikea

Kelsey

Alea was so cute! She was so scared when I first threw her in a bin with rats and mice.

Tyler, Kelsey, Alea and my mom and I went to Ikea the other day to hang out and bet some picture frames for me. We had a lot of fun and got some cute pictures.

WT Party! I mean 4th of July Party

Look at Kelsey's face! haha I love it.

Scott being Scott.

Lara, Christin and Tony

Jill, Kelsey, Alea, and Grandpa.

(white trash) 4th of July party in the front yard.

A lot more people came then I had thought. It was so fun. Families from all over the neighborhood were going on walks and would stop by and say hello and make a smore over the camp fire. It was so much fun. Good food and good company. Thanks everyone for coming!

Watching the Fire works with friends!

Lara and Eric

Me

My favorite picture. Cause They had no clue I was there.

Stealing at work...

Caught someone stealing at work... good thing her little girl had some morals! In the bathroom at work I overheard the little girl ask her mom if she had bought the North Face coat she was wearing and never heard the answer, but it was a clue when they took off out of the bathroom without washing their hands that something was up. She felt pretty dumb when I was standing at the front doors looking at her. By then a manager had made it obvious we knew and had taken the coat off. Why would you steal with your little kids and husband!

The beds over the past month

We slept in a parking lot. We were going to do a canyon here the next morning and asking the neighbors if it was alright to sleep in the parking lot right by there house. They didn't care and were happy we asked. Those are my fun thermals I have on. Very colorful.
Free camp site. No one else was here. A guy kept driving by us looking for his lost dog. It had been lost for 10 days. This is also where Van threw a rock at a possum. They were on the car right by us.
Just the side of the road. Right before you get to the Bay of Islands.
Crouch's family room. Members we found in North Shore. This ended up being our home base. We spent 3 weekends with them. Such a nice family.
Tori's bedroom. This was on flat island. They let me use there daughters bedroom. So nice to have a bed!


Car. We slept in the back of the family's car. They let us use there car while we traveled around Great Barrier Island. It was so cold this night. Van is in the green bag curled up.
Margette got us a backpackers place to stay in one night while on the island. This was so nice of her and unnecessary. We were used to sleeping on the side of the road. But I loved the night we had beds! I couldn't complain.

Beds over the last month. A lot of people have asked where I was sleeping while I was traveling around New Zealand. I tried to get pictures of most the places. So here are some. I don't have all my pictures with me right now but you get the idea. It was an adventure. Showers were a little harder to find but not bad. Water we would get out of the local restrooms in towns or wherever we could find a place to fill up a couple bottles to last us a night or two and then we would just repeat the process.