We are so fortunate to have such a large and generous family! It’s complicated but stay with me, my dad’s stepbrother owns a home in Aspen and generously shared it with us for the weekend! Leaving late Thursday evening, we made the long drive to Aspen. We arrived late to beautiful weather and gorgeous fall colors. Bedtime was late for the boys, but they went to dreamland quickly. Fog, dew, and golden leaves awoke us on Friday morning! The fog and scenery were straight out of a town and country pictorial. Fish were biting and weather was better in Aspen than Denver! (For my out of state friends, this is very unusual, Aspen gets more weather that Denver, but we were blessed with the perfect Fall getaway weekend!) The guys tried fishing in the stream, but it was a bit of a hike for a mountain goat, and the stream moves fast, for such young boys. A pond, a pond just for fishing, is exactly what we found. Freddy ‘caught’ the first fish, sort of. He got the first bite, felt the tug on the line, and got so excited that he’d ‘caught a fish, he yelled and called and did not reel it in ; ( We still counted it. Stephen went on to catch 3 fish and actually reel them in! Theo was not the best sleeper in an unfamiliar bed. In fact he didn’t sleep much at all on Friday night so neither did I! Michael got some sleep, and when he got up I went back to bed. I re-awoke two hours later to the smell of breakfast cooking! Yea!
More fishing, jumping on the trampoline, and some baseball in the yard! Good sleep on Saturday night (finally) but sad to wake up to our last day of the get away! We lunched in Aspen and headed home!
