Birthday/Mother's Day celebration

Continuing in my catching up...

You may remember that I decided we'd celebrate Mother's and Father's Day here at the same time as my birthday and Nathan's this summer. Well, last Tuesday was my birthday. :) Many thanks to all of you who extended birthday wishes!! Actually on the day, though, we were in the middle of our bathroom projects (more on that later) and Asher and Nathan were working. So, my guys took me to dinner and a movie that night, and we opted to more fully celebrate on Friday instead. 

To start, I got some group pictures...

This was my favorite and reminded me of this one that we took for Mother's Day in 2016...

Weren't they cute? :) And we got one with all five of us...

And then we drove up to Estes Park and enjoyed the Open Air ropes course:

Given that we couldn't take phones up with us, these are mostly just of me after Nathan and the boys had exited the course. (Yes, I was the last of us off. I wanted to try a few of the routes on the first level that I'd missed at the start.) We had a terrific time trying the different routes! 

After that, we took a break and went into town for lunch before returning for the scheduled axe throwing portion of our package.

This was also fantastic fun! Boys tried a number of different methods (both figuring things out and just for fun) and Micah even managed to throw all three axes at once and stick them all. Along the way, we realized that we all make certain faces as we throw. Most of us pursed our lips (or sometimes a tongue came out). Asher tended to exhale, though, which was entertaining (and probably better form, lol). 

And then we went back into Estes for our traditional ice cream (we always go to the same place).

These pictures are while waiting for our table at lunch, a family of geese floating the river (hard to see but there are six goslings between the parents there), and enjoying our ice cream (strangely, all three boys got the same thing).

And then we drove home. It was a good day. :)