Gunnison Trip

My dear friend, Malia, and her husband, James, just bought 30 acres with a cabin, an hour outside of beautiful Gunnison, Colorado.  This was the PERFECT romping ground for our boys, to be sure!  We spent three nights and four days exploring the area and soaking in the gorgeous scenery.

We went on a beautiful hike one day, leaving right through Malia's aspen grove.  It is truly a breathtaking area of our state!

Malia and I have been friends since high school.  She has been teaching internationally for the past 12 years.  She and James just finished an assignment in Jordan, and Malia's next job will be in Bogota, Colombia.  When they were in Jordan, they rescued two street dogs, Kiko and Peanut, and now they've become a part of their family...whether Malia is thrilled about that or not.  The two individuals who couldn't have been more thrilled with those dogs were Gavin & Gage.  Playing with Kiko and Peanut, running around with them and sleeping next to them in their sleeping bags were all highlights of their Gunnison trip.  

We were their first official guests since acquiring the property, and they hadn't been there more than a few weeks when we arrived, so there were plenty of projects to do.  Gavin and Gage helped James re-establish a wood rack to the side of their tool shed, and I was so proud of them!  They really are very genuinely helpful little men when they want to be, which I think is more often than lots of boys their age when it really comes down to it.

You can imagine how much they LOVED building a fire every night.  We cooked most dinners out there, enjoying the "hobo packs" we created in tin foil.