Mesa Verde and Bear Lake

Two things didn't get remembered well enough that happened in May and June.

First, we went to Mesa Verde with the Dearden family.  That is, all except Mom.  She had a pip band thing in California?  I think.  Anyway, we, the Greens met up a few days later than everyone else.  They all went to Natural Bridges and Four Corners.  Then we met them in Mesa Verde National Park.  We spent two nights and two days exploring the park.  We had a real nice group campsite, with a forested area where the kids ran a muck.  We celebrated Mikey's birthday.  We toured Balcony House and the Cliff Palace.  Then saw a whole lot of other sites and view points.  It was lovely weather, though a little cool at night.  We sang songs around the campfire, and my favorite was when we randomly decided to tell "tall tales" that really turned into telling our most embarrassing stories around the fire.  Ha ha!  Good times.   After Mesa Verde, we took a BEAUTIFUL drive through Durango, CO (where we stopped for lunch in a park.) and through to Silverton, and along the Million Dollar Highway to Ouray, CO.  Where we camped nearby and spent two days there too.  The Titans and JorKell's went on after we visited the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, on our way to Dinosaur National Monument. We drove a little over 1000 miles on this big ol' road trip!  It was crazy!  (a new record, until our cross country move a few weeks ago.)  We had a ton of fun though.  A ton!
I shared plenty of photos to Instagram and other places, but took way more than is necessary, as always.  So I'm glad I have this blog to dump them all into and remember the trip by.

In June, We had almost a whole month with Ryan's family in town!  The Hibberts had a reunion, then Lindsay stayed for the Green reunion with her girls.  And all the while, Ryan's parents were here too!  We did a lot.  Mostly just stuff around town.  We went to the aquarium, we ate out, we went to the Aviary, we hung out, we had people over, we went to people's houses.  It was a full few weeks!  We even went and rented a house in Lava Hot Springs with Jared and VoNique too!  We ended up with rainy cool weather though, which was lame.  We did lots of hot pool soaking, we ordered pizza, we played at the park, and we ran the river a few times.  It was SO fun to share that tiny town we love with some new family members.  Later we went up to bear lake with the WHOLE Green and Aurich family reunion.  Where we swam, played games, played volleyball, had our usual talent show, ate food, etc. etc. etc.  And as opposed to the Mesa Verde trip, I didn't take nearly enough pictures.  I bet other members of Ryan's family have much better ones than I.  But here are the few I got.

And there you have it!  A not very detailed, but at least some sort of record of, all the fun we had this summer before we left!