8/22/09 Waking up (after a LONG night in the car) to his first mountains ever
Yawning...
Sleepy smile
Colorado Trip 2009
What we did a LOT of...
The Ains with banana all over her
8/22/09 My family always held our breath when we crossed bridges, and we've started doing that with Asher now.
8/22/09 Asher talking about his first impressions of the mountains
Holding his breath over a bridge
Playing on the porch of our room
A bath is always nice after a long trip!
I love how they love each other!!!
The view from Walmart :)
Our walk to the park in Avon, CO - near our hotel
I love Ainsley's smile in this one.
Pretty flowers everywhere
The park - so pretty!
8/22/09 Playing by the stream at the park
8/22/09 Running to the playground
Ainsley's first time to slide
8/22/09 Ains and Ash sliding together
The prettiest park I've ever seen! :)
She loved playing in the grass!
I so wish I had moved so that my shadow wasn't in these pictures!
Playing peek-a-boo - She usually misses her eyes. :)
8/22/09 Ainsley playing in the grass at the park
Asher had a blast on this playground!!!
Playing in the sand (Ainsley's first time ever)
8/22/09 Asher playing at the playground
8/22/09 Ainsley playing in the sand for the first time
8/22/09 Asher walking on the rocks by the lake
8/22/09 Asher and Ainsley putting their feet in the water
I love my Babe!
Beautiful sunset! (Too bad the socks and shoes were in the picture!)
Our little family - I LOVED this evening!!!
8/23/09 Fixing the porch rails, I suppose. :)
Vail Farmer's Market
This is where Ainsley spent a good part of our vacation. :)
8/23/09 Live music at the Farmer's Market
I felt like I was in Switzerland again. :)
His first mechanical bull ride - He loved it!
8/23/09 First mechanical bull ride
8/23/09 More of the mechanical bull ride
8/23/09 Picnic at the Vail Farmer's Market
Goofy hat, but we forgot to bring one that day, so we had to get her what we could find. :)
8/24/09 Riding Mr.T, the pony - He did great!
Free pony ride at Beaver Creek Stables
8/24/09 Asher riding Mr. T, the pony at Beaver Creek Stables
Ainsley loved the horses too!!!
Asher leading Mr. T
So cute!
8/24/09 Ainsley's first pony ride ever - Asher leading her
I loved this view. You can't tell how pretty it really is from this picture!
8/24/09 Asher feeding a horse for the first time
Asher feeding the horses
Daddy showing Asher how to hold his hand flat
8/24/09 One more ride - all by himself!
She was a little doll in this hat! :)
Looking at her brother
They melt my heart!
Asher getting her
Love those teeth! (She has two more on the bottom now.)
Our first attempt at a family hike
They sure looked cute, but it didn't last long. :)
I love this one!!!
The beginning of our scenic drive - from Avon to Aspen, up to Independence Pass, and back down through Independence, CO.
One of my favorite things - a forest of Aspen trees!
“Christmas trees” as Asher called them
Pointing out the roaring river down below
Asher's first real mountain hike - He did GREAT and LOVED it!!!
8/24/09 Asher and Beau getting out to a rock where Beau had a picture taken when he was a kid
Beau and Asher on a rock where Beau had a picture taken when he was a kid
8/24/09 Daddy and Asher touching the water
8/24/09 Mommy and kids on a log
8/24/09 “It's a jungle out here!”
8/24/09 Daddy teaching Asher how to skip rocks (Notice the HUGE rock Asher chose!) :)
Asher looking for good skipping rocks for the first time
Love this pic!
8/24/09 Asher has an “idea” of how we can “across of this”
8/24/09 Asher skipping
Showing Asher where a beaver had chewed the tree
His first CO walking stick
King of the world!
8/24/09 Hi from the mountains!
Storm coming in at Independence Pass
Chipmunk
Holding hands
We were SO HAPPY to be sitting down eating this DELICIOUS meal!!! We were exhausted after a long and great day! The Golden Burro in Leadville.
Peek-a-boo - again, she's not so good at getting her eyes. :)
Yea!
8/25/09 Trying to get Ainsley to take her third step (Her first two were to Daddy in CO.)
8/25/09 Hangin' out in the hotel room
8/26/09 Imagination Station in Vail
They had several different fun “stations” for the kids to play in. They had a BLAST!!!
8/26/09 Daddy helping Asher with the marble thing at Imagination Station in Vail
8/26/09 Asher painting at Imagination Station
8/26/09 Playing in the “padded room” at Imagination Station
8/26/09 Ainsley playing at Imagination Station
Back at the same place that we hiked a couple of days earlier, but we took a different hike this time.
Everything is a weapon of some kind. :)
Blurry, but you can tell how cute Asher was walking with his special CO walking stick!
This hike was MUCH more uphill than the other one, and Asher did GREAT!!!
He loves playing with his sister!
These were the craziest Aspen trees I've ever seen! They were horizontally bowed!
When I was younger, one of my “weird” things was that whenever I saw an aspen tree, I just wanted to BREAK it - even though that is impossible! :) So, I took a picture of this broken aspen tree.
We made it to the top of mountain, where we found this BEAUTIFUL lake!!! Such a sense of accomplishment! And such an amazing place!
We carefully made our way down to the lake. :)
He was “fishing” with his walking stick.
He's a genius! (He didn't really write it.) :)
Ainsley wanted to go for a swim.
Finding the perfect rock to throw in the water
Getting a little more fishing in before we needed to go
Ainsley didn't necessarily care about much on our hike, but we passed this tree trunk on our way up from the lake, and she grabbed it and wouldn't let go. She loved it for some reason. :)
Climbing up this rock all by himself
He did it! :)
This is the place I had been to with Mom, Dad, and Emily several years ago.
Tired kids=a bunch of tries for a good picture
8/27/09 Watching the guys at the skate park in Vail
Asher's and Ainsley's first gondola ride ever! - Vail
8/27/09 Getting on the gondola at Vail
8/27/09 Asher on his first gondola ride - Vail
Gondola in Vail - one of only a few of our whole family
8/27/09 Dino Dig at the top of the mountain in Vail
8/27/09 Playing his first game of washers
8/27/09 Ainsley waving to daddy
8/27/09 “Gig em Aggies” on the gondola
I love my pretty girl!
8/27/09 Ainsley making a funny noise and peek-a-boo
Getting sleepy at dinner time
They're my favorites! :)
8/27/09 It's all fun and games until somebody gets hurt. :)
8/28/09 River in Avon, CO
He LOVED his monkey backpack!!!
Playing Daddy's game (but not really)
Daddy dancing with his little girl - one of the first times :)
8/28/09 One of Ainsley's and Daddy's first dances
Mountain squirrel
Looking at the squirrel on the Vail Nature Center trail
Daddy fixing Asher's walking stick
Betty Ford Alpine Gardens in Vail - The World's Highest Botanical Garden
They had a fun playground there too!
Ainsley even loved it! :)
This was the first time he'd ever stepped out on something like this.
8/28/09 Asher swinging HIMSELF for the first time
8/28/09 Ainsley at the Alpine Garden playground
Big boy!
8/28/09 Ainsley on the turning thing at the playground - getting dizzy
For Poppie :)
Pretty building - too bad the chain link fence is in the picture :)
Back at the hotel
8/29/09 On our way home. Thank you Lord for the DVD player!!!
8/31/09 Back home...our friends from Riverbend came to visit!!! This is Ethan! (Our camera was obviously having technical difficulties.)
They were born just two months apart!
It was so fun to see “what might've been” if they would've gotten to grow up together. They were too cute!
8/31/09 Ethan and Asher playing together - reunion
Benjamin and Nadia
Brad, Nadia, and Benjamin
9/1/09 Showing the Lamberts around the camp
Benjamin and Asher were good little buddies.
We had never let Asher climb on these rocks before without us, but he did great! He was very careful! :)
How cute are they?!?!?!
9/2/09
I think this was the firs time she had ever climbed UP on something before!
9/3/09 His other friend Ethan
Trinity, Asher, and Ethan
We had our friends Nick and Autumn and their kiddos over for dinner. We had a great tiime!
9/4/09
Always lots of love...well, maybe not ALWAYS...but most of the time! :)
Ainsley's first time to play on the slide
She loves to point.
9/7/09 The kids making each other laugh - “Hello customer.”
