I can only narrate because I have no words.

So I'm in my bedroom folding laundry while Caelen takes a nap. It's a wonderful fall afternoon and the rain is pouring down. I personally love rain, especially the first rains of the season. They're so fresh and cool and I love the smell and sound. So I have my blinds open and my window cracked and that's the only sound I hear.
I look out the window half way through my pile of laundry and my neighbor across the street (whom I've never met and rarely see) is outside. She's probably in her mid 50's, a small woman who enjoys her yard work and only ventures out of the house for this task. She is in black flip flops, red peddle pushers and.... a pure white T-shirt. She is soaked from head to toe.
This woman has the garden hose and is (I can't make this up people) spraying the sidewalk down. She's acting as if the rain is a nusiance but she's not going to let it stop her. So hunkered down she finally puts the hose away and gets a shovel. She begins re-potting a plant right there on the sidewalk. My jaw is gaping open and I almost don't continue to do my laundry. Once she's repotted the plant she gets a broom and sweeps off the side walk she had just hosed down!! All in all this operation takes about 15 minutes and like I said, it's pouring.

Now the best part of this story (again, I can't make this up, I'm just not that good) is that every sunny afternoon that she does these same kinds of chores, she holds an umbrella over her head.

Where's my instruction manual?

I have come to the conclusion that I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to being a parent. I seriously don't. I mean, when times are easy and she's feeling semi-obedient, then I feel OK about my decisions, but when a day like today comes along, I feel like I'm piloting a crashing plane (imagine sitting behind the controls knowing that you have to do something, but knowing that whatever decision you make will probably be the wrong one.)
I have physically wresteled my child at least 13 times today.
2 times to get her in her car seat
1 time to get her coat on.
3 times to get her off the floor at Target
1 time to change her diaper
6 times to get her back in her bed for a nap that is not going to happen no matter how long I leave her in there.

And all of these wrestling matches have involoved her screaming bloody murder and hitting and kicking me. I'm pregnant mind you!
I seriously don't know what I'm doing. I guess I'll go get her out of bed. It's the 3rd day in a row that she's refused to take a nap. She just stays in there crying and talking to herself for 2 hours.
I hope this is what they mean by the terrible twos because if it's gonna get worse, oh boy.....

Get it right Mom

While cleaning up after a lunch of salad with Mommy, Caelen held up her wadded up paper towel and said, "What's this Mommy?"
"It's a paper towel, baby."
Shaking her head and smiling, "Noooo"
"What is it?"
"It's a BASEBALL! Like on TV."

How you know it's World Series Time.

Torpedo Belly

Yesterday I had exactly 4 calendar months left to go until my due date. It was also the same day that I just started to feel huge, so I had to take a picture.

Just for fun, here is me just about a week further along with CAELEN. (I'm standing in the exact same spot in my house too! A lot has changed :)

Is this how Mozart started?

Caelen's new favortie thing to do these days is play the piano and sing. She sings with her head back and eyes are almost always closed (anytime she sings). In this video, she KNOWS I'm recording her, that's why she keeps glancing over and at the end she stops and says, "My see it," which means, I want to see it. She always makes me show her pictures I take of her LOL. Anyway, it's still a really good idea of how she plays and sings so enjoy!



Her other new talent is taco tongue! Thomas and I both can do it (I think most people can actually) but she's been doing it lately and I don't think anyone taught her, I just caught her doing it one day.

This hurts me more than it hurts you.... obviously

Last night was a momenteous occasion and shall go down in the Kline Family History Books. Yes, we finally left Caelen over night. It was the first time since she was born that we didn't wake up with her and it was odd. We had a great time (probably not as much fun as Caelen, Grandma, and Grandpa had, but fun nonetheless). We had dinner at the Italian Affair in downtown Santa Rosa and went to see the Duchess (strange movie by the way, well acted, but the story line was more like an excerpt from history than your typical beginning-middle-and-end plot.) Then we just went home and had a relaxing evening and woke up lesiurely which was very refreshing since every morning the first thing I hear is a little voice asking for juice and milk or telling me "Come on Mommy."
But it was weird not having her here. And Thomas had a harder time with it than I think he thought he would. He was kinda bummed that there was no big girl in her "big girl bed." But we really had a nice evening and have proved to ourselves that we CAN do it!
When I went to pick Caelen up she told me, "No go home! See Grandma and Grandpa today."

My big potty trainer is completely not interested anymore! So we're back to diapers. I'm getting the impression that she finds it just too much of a hassle. Of course, at first it was a novelty. Candy, stickers, and fun Kandoo wipes! Yay! But now she's content once again to run around in a diaper all day and has no desire to sit on the potty! LOL. At least we know she can do it and I know that when she's ready she'll let us know.


But when she WAS potty training we converted her crib into a toddler bed. That, thank the Lord, is still working out nicely. She gets out a couple times if she's not really wanting a nap but once I tell her to stay put, she will even if it means lying there talking to herself for a sleepless hour.


And seriously, I wish she could tell me what this no-nap thing is all about because she always falls asleep in the car and even tells me, "Dee Dee so tired Mommy, need to take a nap." She rests her head on her "Yellow Bauchie" and falls asleep in the car. I have to play games and talk to her just to keep her awake until we get home. "Caelen, what color is that car? What color is the sky?" And if that works and I get her home and into bed, she'll lay there for an hour, crying, talking, calling me and telling me she's all done. Honestly child....
She loves playing with the guords ("tones") she picked out at the pumpkin patch.



So she's extablished that her baby sister is in my tummy so now she likes to give the belly kisses and raspberries. The other night she gave me a particularly wet kiss on the belly and said, "Eat it baby!"
This afternoon we got around to carving our pumpkins. Caelen got to draw all over her little one that she had picked out. I drew the face on the big one and Thomas carved both of them. Caelen loved seeing the faces and helping Papa put them on the porch. I think she'll like them even better when we light them up tonight! I, in the meantime, was dividing out the pumpkin seeds and roasting them in the oven. Yum.

Hide & Seek

Here's a video of Caelen and Papa playing Hide and Seek for the first time! She calls it Peek-A-Boo. She counts super fast with her head down and then goes running after him. She usually knows where he went since she doesn't give him much time, but if she doesn't find him immediatly she comes to me, puts her hands up and says, "Where'd Papa go Mommy?" She wanders around calling "Papa?" She usually ends with a triumphant "Found you!"

If there's a nuclear holocaust, there won't be any cockroaches left, just my mom and a can of Raid.

The biggest flipping cockroach (I'm NOT kidding!) climbed out of the pants I was altering at my mom's house and ran across my ironing board today. It was 2 inches at least. Seriously I was scared stiff for a second but started hyperventilating and shrieking pretty quickly thereafter. My tough as nails mom (who had more than just a little fear in her voice) managed to get the courage up to spray that sucker with Raid. Then we had the lovely task of trying to FIND it since it flipped out after being sprayed with death. We eventually found it on the floor, curled up in the typical legs up "dead bug" position. When I told my mom we should ask the cleaners not to send anymore bugs along as we don't alter bugs, we alter clothes, she said, "I did some pretty good altering to it outside!" I'm picturing a flat-as-a-pancake cockroach on my mom's patio.....

Imagine a little chipmunk voice saying, "Baby moving in mommy's tummy, coming to play with me!" as she points her little hand to her chest. Pretty much the sweetest thing ever. I had told her the baby was moving and so she waved to my tummy and said, "Hi Addison!" Then she started talking about how she would come out and play with her. We tell her these things so she didn't make it up but it was so darn cute to hear her say it.

Caelen has been in a big girl bed (her crib converts to a toddler bed) since Tuesday night and it's been going well so far! She's very excited about it and likes to play in it with her animals. She also likes to tell us she's a big girl. We decided after a few nights of her crying after we put her to bed only to find out (after finally giving in and going in to check on her) she had wanted to go use the potty but it was too late (she's been sleeping with diapers though) that it might be a good idea to get her in a bed that she could get out of if she needed to use the bathroom. So far she hasn't gotten out by herself, she still calls for me, but that's a relief! I wasn't looking forward to any nighttime battles over staying in bed. I'm not saying it won't happen, but so far things are looking up.

Potty training is going well although she's a little inconvenienced by it all if she's busy doing something fun. And she hardly stays put long enough to finish the job! She'll hop off real quick, say "Yay!" and then run off. We usually have to get her back and help her finish all that using the potty entails. But today she went 3 times in the church nursery! The ladies said that they were very impressed since it wasn't home. She was so proud that when I called Thomas she was in the back seat yelling, "Dee Dee potty papa! Dee Dee Potty!"

New names and a pumpkin patch

Well, Thomas and I have told enough people by now, and considering we had two opinions on the sex of our new baby girl, we're gonna go out on a limb and pick out girlie bedding, paint the room pink and let people know our baby girl's name. This time it wasn't so easy as it was with Caelen. We actually got the name book out and made lists of our favorites (we'd been doing all this before we knew she was a girl). After we found out she was a girl we got serious about it, but there were only a couple names that we agreed upon and really only one that we both just loved. So Addison Paige will hopefully be gracing us with her presence before I turn 27 ;)

Anyway, I'd been concerned about Addison's movement, or lack thereof. So after dinner tonight I lay down on the couch to see if I could feel her move. In less that 2 minutes (I know because the timer had just started for Caelen's time out) Addison kicked me 10 times! So now I'm thinking that I just don't feel her because I'm up moving around or lugging my toddler around, or just plan busy and she's just still too small. But it's very comforting to feel her moving!


This year's trip to the pumpkin patch was a lot better than last year's. We went to the same patch, but Caelen "got it" this year, her Grandma and Grandpa came along, and we actually bought a few pumpkins instead of just going for pictures. So all in all a very fun Sunday morning!

I don't know why Thomas isn't smiling. Maybe he was just concentrating really hard on the map they gave us to get us out of the maze. Caelen had amazing intuition for which way to go and at first made all the correct turns! LOL

Pardon the runny nose. The reason we were at the pumpkin patch and not church on Sunday was because Caelen and I are suffering from the nasty cold that has apparently struck the entire Sonoma County.
Checking out the farm animals. That was her most favorite part of the day.


From the top of the hay bales she caught site of the pumpkins over the tops of the big Sunflower wall. Man, she about did a header trying to get down and scramble over to the pumpkins!
At first she started counting the pumkins, but after 1,2,3,4,8, 10 she decided to pick one out instead.



There's my handsome man picking out the pumpkin that we'll carve. We grew a couple of pumpkins ourselves this year but because they're sugar pumpkins, Thomas wants to use them for pies, not jack 'o lanterns.
And some final guords and such to finish our fall motif!

The Girls are Getting Big!

The baby kicked Thomas! We were so excited ;) She's not the mover that Caelen was (hopefully a good sign!) so to feel her kicking strong enough was just a great reminder that she's in there and getting big! She's about 6 inches from crown to rump (longer when she kicks) and she's had a few really good nights in a row where Thomas could feel her going to town.

Caelen is potty training herself LOL. I have NOT looked forward to potty training and wanted nothing to do with all the accidents and "Mom I have to pee" while we're going 65 miles an hour down the middle of the freeway, or asking over and over "Do you have to pee? Are you sure?" But she started going through diapers like Grant through Richmond. Now I don't know if anyone else's child has ever made it to size 6 diapers but they're the biggest size and for some absurd reason are WAY more expensive than a size 5. So we're in diapers made of gold and she's making me change them every time she gets a little wet!! So I left her diaper off one afternoon and told she had to go in the potty because she had no diaper and she did!!
We've had a couple accidents but she's getting better and better at telling us "Dee Dee Pee" and she's also super excited about her little Kandoo wipes (flushable wipes for potty trainers.) She also gets a candy corn (if she remembers) after going and the cutest thing is she always goes and finds Papa and tells him she went potty (every time!) and he makes a big deal out of it and she's just so proud.
So we bought some undies to get her all excited about it. She picked out some Tinkerbell and I got some cute Hanes as well. We're still doing diapers for outings and sleeping, but around the house ( and hopefully Grandma's house soon too) we're using the potty.
I'm excited for the result of course! It would be great to only have one baby in diapers. Less expensive, and convienient. So hopefully she'll get the hang of it pretty quick :)

Wonderful and Terrible Twos

A couple of weeks ago I was cleaning out Caelen's drawers to get rid of whatever she didn't fit into anymore. She took no time in hopping in an empty drawer and declaring it a boat. She then piled her stuffed animals in with her saying, "Come on bear, bear in the boat!" Then she told me Bye and that she was going to the store. I asked her if she was really going to the store in her boat and she said YES! So I provided her with an "oar" so she could get around and we sang Row Row Row Your Boat for awhile. (That's a backpack on her back as well.)

And have I mentioned she's just a little mommy? I hope the enthusiasm for babies carries over to her baby sister! In this pic she's feeding her baby lunch.

Yesterday I told her some friends were coming for dinner. All she cared about was whether Austin was coming or not. When the answer was an affirmative she ran to the hall closet to get the blanket that Austin's mommy always lays out for him when he's over. She lay it down in the living room and as soon as he got here she wanted to hold him! Like I said, I hope this carries over to her sister :)

So I'm going to be brave and post a belly shot for anyone whose curious and hasn't seen me in a long time :) This pic was taken Thursday so I'm a little more than 18 weeks along. Almost half way there.

Today at the outlet mall in Petaluma my child completely melted down. I was THAT mother, the one with the kicking & spitting 2 year old whose arching her back and falling on the ground just to keep from getting in her stroller. I must have pushed her too far and tried to cram too many things into our morning. I did it all in just 3 hours but I had to run to Oliver's to get some pasta for dinner tonight, then I did the drive through at the bank, then we went to Target to get her another potty seat for her Grandma's house and some big girl undies (did I mention yet that she's potty training?), then we went to the outlets. I had to exchange some pants for her and I needed new maternity clothes desperately. Then I let her play on the playground at the mall. That's when things started to go downhill. She wasn't being as agreeable as usual but I was starving and about to faint. I got her in the stroller and we went to a little cafe. I got her a muffin she picked out but when she saw my bagel dog and chips that poor muffin got completely abandoned.

Then it happened. She asked for a piece of hot dog, when I said, "Sure, take a bite" She flipped out! Apparently she had wanted it in her hand. Now she's doubled over, hanging out the front of her stroller screaming "NO Mommy! No!!!" (Yeah, no more bagel dog for you!) I calmly packed up and took her outside. She had wanted to look at the water fountain but was a wreck. I asked her to calm down and ask nicely. Well she managed to stop crying and say "Please Water." really pathetically, so I took her over and let her out to walk around.

Then it happened Take Two. I told her it was time to go now and she needed to get in the stroller so we could go through the parking lot. Well, I've never seen anything like it. She literally crumbled to the ground in a fit, screaming NO NO NO NO, crying hysterically, kicking me, spitting, twisting. Anything to stay out of the stroller. There was no way I could let her win like that!!! So I managed, looking quite foolish I'm sure, but who cares? to get her in the stroller. She screamed No at me for the next 30 minutes until she was in our house. I had her in her crib pretty much immediately and she fell asleep in about 5 minutes. Holy cow.... can you say Terrible Twos? LOL

Oh and I have no picture to go along with that story, thankfully!

She's Healthy :)

Thanks for all your prayers everyone! Today we had our ultrasound down in San Francisco and our 2nd DAUGHTER is perfectly healthy! YAY :) What a relief. I cannot even begin to tell you the weight that has been lifted off our shoulders. I could hardly sleep last night and couldn't decide whether I wanted to just get it over with or was too scared to go. Well these things come whether we think we're ready or not.
It was a very detailed 45 minute ultrasound. I could see a lot of good detail on the screen and from what I could tell and what the tech was pointing out, the baby looked perfect to me. But she wasn't authorized to give any diagnosis, she could just point out hands, feet, etc. It's one of the best experiences of pregnancy watching your little peanut on the screen at about 20 weeks. Anyway she thought it was a girl, wasn't 100%, but was pretty sure. Then the docotor came in and continued the ultrasound but started by saying, "Rumor has it everything looks good!" I was so excited as she pointed out a perfect spine and I just had tears rolling down my face. She then said it was definitely a girl!
My whole pregnancy has changed now. I know my baby is healthy and I know she's a girl! I feel her moving everyday and yesterday while touching my tummy, I felt a little pop on my hand!Luckily I'm feeling a lot better now. I'm still sick every morning, but the rest of my day I feel almost back to normal! Life is good, God is good and Caelen is going to have a sister :)

Casini Ranch 2008

Finally getting around to putting some pictures up from our camping trip last weekend. We were out at the river with my folks and the trip went all together too quickly but we had a great relaxing time!

In the doggie part of the new tent.

Helping Grandpa set up the canopy.

Gabbie hates her sweater more than anything in the world, seriously!

Caelen torturing a small animal.

Who needs naps? Let's go to the river and play!

Our friends The Bishops happened to be there the same weekend (total coincidence!) So Caelen got to play with her friend Ty for a little bit. Here she's trying to copy him because he has been laying in the water a few seconds earlier.

Making sandcastles with Grandpa. Let's be honest, the best part is knocking them down!!

Adding a flower to her castle.

And Caelen torturing antoher small animal.

Where's the Tums?

You Know You're Getting Old When:

1.Pizza gives you heartburn
2.You cannot for the life of you stay up past 9:30
3.You draw a blank on one of your high school friends' first names....

Wait a minute, maybe this list is the You Know You're Pregnant When List


Do you ever find yourself just completely wasting time? Wondering why am I doing what I'm doing? and what the heck else could I be doing? I'm home by myself tonight while Thomas is out with a couple friends, and Caelen is asleep. The 2nd Pirates of the Carribean (which I own, still in it's little wrapper on my DVD shelf) is on my TV and I am fresh off a 30 minute surfing session of pieces of flair on Facebook.
Seriously? And am I getting any enjoyment out of it? Not really. It's actually all boring me. But do I have enough energy to lift the laptop off my lap, turn the TV off and do something else. No! Because I'm pregnant.... maybe I should add that to the list.
4. You're too lazy to move.

Miracle of the Moment

Love this song right now:

Steven Curtis Chapman - Miracle Of The Moment

It’s time for letting go
All of our if only’s
‘Cause we don’t have a time machine
And even if we did
Would we really want to use it?
Would we really want to go change everything?

‘Cause we are who and where
and what we are for now
And this is the only moment
we can do anything about

So breathe it in and breathe it out
Listen to your heartbeat
There’s a wonder in the here and now
It’s right there in front of you
And I don’t want you to miss
The miracle of the moment

There’s only One who knows
What’s really out there waiting
In all the moments yet to be
And all we need to know
Is He’s out there waiting
To Him the future’s history

And He has given us a treasure called right now
And this is the only moment
we can do anything about

So breathe it in and breathe it out
Listen to your heartbeat
There’s a wonder in the here and now
It’s right there in front of you
And I don’t want you to miss
The miracle of the moment

And if it brings you tears
Then taste them as they fall
And let them soften your heart
And if it brings you laughter
Then throw your head back
And let it go, let it go
You gotta let it go

Listen to your heartbeat
So breathe it in and breathe it out
Listen to your heartbeat
There’s a wonder in the here and now
It’s right there in front of you
And I don’t want you to miss
The miracle of the moment

Our Baby Needs your Prayers This Week

I got a call yesterday afternoon that no Mommy-to-be wants to get.
"Your AFP test results came back positive for a nueral tube defect in the baby. It doesn't mean they have a problem, they're just at a higher risk for it and so we need to get you into the San Francisco Kaiser for an ultrasound next Tuesday so we can see what's going on."
If you are a praying person, we would convet your prayers for our unborn baby right now. We're just praying that there's nothing wrong at all!! But it is weighty news and I know it's going to be bouncing around in my head all week. So pray for peace for Thomas and I as well if you would :) Thank you and we'll keep you updated on the health of our baby.

This better be tasty!

Today I bought a tomato for $4.98. A, ONE, UNO tomato for almost $5. I didn't know they sold such magic tomatos, and had I known I most certainly would have tsk-ed at such an outrageous price, shook my head and walked away.
So how did that glorious tomato end up in my cart? Especially considering the 25 tomato plants sitting in my backyard right now? My loosed toddler ran up to the basket with a sign reading "Organic Heirloom Tomatos $2.99 per lb" grabbed the biggest one in that darn basket and took a bite before I could open my mouth to shout "Caelen Abigail!" There were at least two witnesses who then wanted to begin discussing the event, so all hope of pretending my child didn't really take a bite and putting it back and walking away was out of the question. That massive 2 lb tomato minus one bite mark went right into my cart.
Luckily I was on to her before she went to do the same to a hot chili pepper.

I've Seen it Raining Fire in the Sky

Well I can check off a few more places on my 1000 Places To See Before You Die list ;) And I now know how to make a composting toilet, what an elk sounds like in the middle of the night, that 11,000 ft elevation is a bit too high for me to function normally, and that had I been a cliff dwelling native, I probably would have never moved for fear of falling off. Oh and my daughter is a super trooper.


I had my first experience of Colorado these past 10 days and I think it was done justice. I have never seen such a beautiful area as the Rocky Mountains. Telluride in particular is absolutely breathtaking and I understand why such a remote spot has become a celebrity favorite. I saw a two bedroom townhome for sale for 1.6 mil. Almost every home is perfectly gorgeous, and had I the money, I'd live there too. It was a last minute spot in our trip (a favor bestowed upon me as I didn't complain when the hunting males asked to stay in the log cabin one extra night) and I'm so glad we didn't miss the oppurtunity!

This is Caelen enjoying some ice cream in a shop on Main St.

After driving in a motorhome (thank God!) 24 hours from CA through NV, and UT we finally arrived in Delores CO. Just northwest of Durango. Our final destination was a log cabin at about 11,000 ft in the rockies. The woman who owns it bought it from her parents and now rents it out as much as she can. It's on 328 acres and although you can hike the 2.5 miles from the road up 1000 feet to the cabin, we had her escort us and all our luggage in a 4 wheeler. The much better way to go I think. It put Caelen right to sleep even though we were bouncing all over the place.




As we arrived and she happily pointed out the outhouse about 50 feet from the cabin I tried the sound grateful, "Oh great!" when really I was thinking, "Are you flipping kidding me?"

It was pretty rustic. The lights were solar powered and as most of our experience was rain, thunder and lightning, and cold cloudy days, we were definitely conserving the little light we had.
Thankfully, after a lot of uncertainty about whether or not they could make it, Thomas' step brother Elijah, his wife and their three girls ended up coming. I was so happy to have company for me and Caelen as the men spent the mornings (5-10ish) and the evenings (5-9) hunting in the mountains around our cabin.




The sound of elk in the middle of the night during a thunder storm was extremely eerie. It's a high-pitched, lonely sounding cry but I knew what it was right away because of all the elk calls the guys had around the house. The sound was good news for our fearless (maybe a bit crazy?) hunters, who left before light the next morning in a storm to try and bring home the big one. Unfortunately for them, after 5 days of hunting they never caught one and Thomas is pretty sure his bow-hunting days are over as quickly as they had begun.

After Elijah and the girls left Monday afternoon, we were planning on leaving the next day. But when Thomas and his dad got home after another unsuccessful morning they proposed staying one more night and leaving the next day. They promised me Telluride and the Cliff Dwellings and I agreed. I really enjoyed the comfort of the cabin, with nothing so much as a radio. It was cozy but big enough for cabin-fever to be kept at bay during the many storms we had. I did crosswords and Caelen did a lot of coloring and reading to pass the time, but I don't think we were ever really bored.





I don't think I'll ever take a shower that is battery powered and only heats 5 gallons of water at a time again. After we went down to feed the horses in a rain storm, I was pretty wet but warm from the hike and thought, "Heck, I'll take a shower, why not, it's been 4 days since my last one and I'm already wet." So in a rainstorm I get this shower going out on the back deck. Just a little Cabela's tent shower. It felt so good! I got my hair shampooed, stuck some conditioner in, started to wash the rest of me and that darn thing went straight to cold. No, not cold, I'm sorry, Freezing! That was it, I had used my 5 gallons just trying to get my hair wet! I had conditioner in my hair and soap all over my body, with 5 virtual strangers in the cabin who probably wouldn't appreciate me running naked through the house screaming. So like a bad a** I rinsed off, rinsed my hair and got out of there as fast as I could. Yeah, they laughed at me when I told my tale. You probably did too ;) 5 gallons, what a joke!



This is us going down to take care of the horses.

So after fun mountain living, we left the cabin, drove to a local campsite and took a semi-normal shower. This one could have sandblasted Caelen into a wall had I let her stand under it, so that was some tricky manuevering. I found my makeup and we had a nice evening in Telluride. We camped at the bottom of our mountain again only to wake up to ice on the insides of our windows and that the battery had died on our heater in our motorhome. It was below freezing and poor Caelen's hand were so cold she kept crying and crying. We did everything to heat them up but she didn't want anyone to touch her oowies.



Our final hours in Colorado were spent at the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings. These were really worth the 19 mile drive from the highway in through curving roads that had me in the bathroom. So was the Navajo Taco we purchased at the food shop.








And that's our Colorado tale. If you ever get the chance to see this part of the country for yourself, do it! I have never seen anything to match the beauty of the Rockies in my opinion. Of course I love mountains and their rocky rivers and year round Chirstmas trees.