Devil's Kitchen

We are so lucky to live so close to so many cool places, one of which is the Colorado National Monument, right out our front door.  We explored one little easy hike with the kids called Devil's Kitchen and it was pretty cool.

Mackenzie wanted to take a picture by every ugly cedar tree on the hike up and back.  Oh goodness!

Fourth of July!

Way back for the Fourth of July, the Nielsen's came to play for a week and these kiddos lived it up! 

My attentiveness to picture taking was terrible while they were here, but we had a great week with lots of fun cooking (an over-the-top-amazing cheesecake we made), and online shopping, visiting, dinner, movie, pedis, a trip to Ouray hot springs, and lots of play, play, play for the kiddos!

Fishing with Grandpa

For Father's Day, we headed to Roosevelt to see my dad!  It was a super fun trip!  And what better thing to do with my dad on Father's Day than fish?

Heading in for a swim

After fishing, its egg collecting time AGAIN!  I can't emphasize enough how much she loves to go collect chicken eggs.  And its quite funny to watch Collin even approach the chicken coop.  He is so darn scared of chickens flapping around, he nearly runs away in tears. 

Next...have to fill up the bird feeders.  Mackenzie should really live on a farm!  We did plenty more 'farm' like activities that weekend and had a blast! 

Bunnies

I know, its not Easter, but after two years of trying to breed our rabbits, we finally got baby bunnies (back in June)!  Five were born, but one didn't make it because our mama rabbit didn't know how to be a mama and take care of them.  Then 3 weeks later, our mama rabbit died.  That was a sad day!  Mackenzie came running in the house just bawling to me to tell me the news.  As sad as it was (I cried too and I've hated those darn rabbits), in the end it was a happy time for Mackenzie because she got to be the mama and what a good job she did!  She certainly took care of those 4 little babies, bottle feeding and all!

Tyson is holding down the mama so these little rascals can nurse.  He was determined to make sure she fed them, so he went out multiple times everyday for 2 weeks and held her down until she finally figured it out. 

Mackenzie LOVES these bunnies!  This little white guy is her favorite.  The neighborhood and ward kids love them too and always want to come visit and get them out. One time, this little white one fell out of the cage and broke its leg, but it healed up just fine and is doing great!

 

One month later...pretty big!

 

I should take current pictures - they are huge now!  They are French lops, largest breed of domestic rabbits...getting to be around 15-18 lbs.  That's a huge rabbit!