Longs Peak… my fav.

Whenever we drive in the mountains, it usually involves our typical loop up to Boulder, over to Nederland and up to Estes Park. On the way to Estes, you get a BEAUTIFUL view of Longs Peak…. my favorite mountain. Everytime I see it, I say “I Love Longs Peak”. Here is a photo from the other day-

I look up at it on windy days when I’m driving to work and wonder what it is like up there at 14,225 ft, who has been up there and seen it first hand… the storms that have battered each rock and plant that reside, it sends my imagination spinning… I will someday hike that fourteener… yes sirrrrrieee!!!

We continued to Estes and found this little coffee shop hidden in the many shops and ice creams shops.. and what is it called?? Longs Peak We sat upstairs on the couch next to the beautiful photo that the owner’s grandfather took from the summit at Chasm Lake, which we bought a print of.

We also went on a nice walk the other weekend at Eldorado Springs, considering it has been in the 60s!! We have all been somewhat under the weather (well Pedie and I… and if mama and baby aren’t happy, ain’t nobody happy!:) ) so we wanted to get some fresh air… it was a great idea…

Completely unrelated…. funny pic of D Thanks for THE OFFICE mugs Manda!!! Haha!!!

Yes, it snows in Arizona

Ever since I have been moving all over the God fershnicken country and I tell folks I’m from AZ they say ohhhh… must be such a HUGE change from Maine, or upstate NY and I say no, there is a huge pine forest, we get tons of snow and we are at 7,000ft. in the mountains.

When I was just home we got a few feet of snow… it was INTENSE! Then we got an ice storm on top of it… and this caused the Hastings roof to cave in, as well as the Quiznos roof to collapse. The fire dept had to make folks around town shovel their roofs before they could open their businesses.

I also posted some photos of the Flatirons here in Colorado.. beautiful mountains in the snow

For more Pedie Christmas photos check out the baby blog. I want to keep this blog going so if we ever have stories to post that aren’t tooo Pedie-ish we can post them here.

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Years!!!

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