This is the rest of our pictures from Colorado. We went to Trail West on one of the last days that we were there. Trail West is a family camp that is only about 20 minutes from Frontier, which is where we were. They have a petting zoo there, so we went and Brayden loved it.

Brayden rode his first pony. He held on tight. He kept pulling the ponies mane too. He laughed and got real excited. At one point Blake let go of him.

They also had carriage rides. That was fun.

Brayden loved the rabbits. He would pet them and then start pulling on their ears.

Brayden driving his first tractor. Howdy!



He wasn't too sure about the goats.

We went on a hike yesterday with Brayden. It was a shorter hike than we did the second week we were here. This hike took about 3 hours. Brayden did great. He loved being in the pack. He looked so cute in there.

Brayden having a little lunch on the top of the mountain.

This is at the top

This is a picture of the camp from the top.

Father and Son's First Hiking Adventure

Brayden took his first real step today. We caught it on video. As you watch it you will notice everyone screaming and then Brayden started crying because it scared him. I think that he would have taken a second step if he wouldn't have been so startled. Enjoy!

Frontier Ranch Part 2

We are still here in Colorado. We are starting our last week. Here are some more pictures from our time here. This first picture is Brayden's first time to really stand up by himself. It look like he is holding onto the volleyball netting, but he is standing. It was for about 20 seconds or so. It seemed really long. He is still not walking. He will take a step from a table to a chair or something, but for the most part he is content with crawling and cruising. He loved the stairs and has mastered those; going up and coming down.

This is Ray and Josh's characters, Baby and Baby. There are baby rappers. It is pretty hilarious.

Blake and Josh leading the Rodeo.
Brayden has started to love rocks since he has been here. He loves to put them in his mouth, so we have been working on that. If you look carefully you can tell he has one in the right side of his mouth. I'm not really worried about the dirt as I am his teeth.



Blake and I went on the hike the second week we were here. The whole camp hikes a 13,000 ft. mountain. The view was beautiful as you can tell.

These are more pictures of the western night.

Our friends have a hiking pack for kids and so we took Brayden on a little walk.

Here are the rest of the videos of the opera. It should pick up where I left off on the last blog.

Frontier Ranch

We are here at Frontier Ranch. We just finished our first week here. It has been a great week. Blake has done a great job with program. They are having a blast and Brayden and I are having fun watching them. Brayden is not walking yet. He still can't quit stand up by himself. He just got his two front teeth in since we have been here and the two beside those are starting to come in.

This is a picture of us at the Western Night. Doesn't Brayden look adorable?

This is Brayden with Chevy and Ford. Josh Loy is Chevy and Blake is Ford.

The Indian is Benjamin Pettigrew.


Blake dyed his hair for one of his characters. He is reading to Brayden before he goes to bed.


This is Ray and Blake's characters, Whoa and Sweet. Blake is on the right. They are Malibu's sons from American Gladiators. They are the game characters, which means they lead upfront games.
Ray with an awesome mullet wig.
Blake



Rainy day at Frontier.


Brayden was ready to go to bed.

This is the slide at Frontier Ranch. It is huge. This is a picture of Jamie taking Benjamin down it. We are not sure that Brayden is quit ready for that.



This is when we stopped in Tulsa, OK on our way to Colorado.
Brayden fell asleep in the car with sunflower seeds and toys in his lap.

We decided to take Brayden down the slide. They turned it down for us, so it wasn't so fast. Brayden loved it. He laughed as we were going down. It was lots of fun.



Then we all (Ray, Jamie, Benjamin, Josh, Anne, and us) went down it together in a train. We got a little seperated at the end. Blake, myself, and Anne came first and then....
Josh, Brayden, Jamie, Benjamin, and Ray

We took a group photo after the group slide.

Here is some video from the opera. The opera is a 30 minute culmination of the characters stories. The reason that it is called an opera is because they lip sing to songs through it. You may not be able to understand what they are saying, but you can get an idea. The main characters are Chevy and Ford (Josh and Blake). The bad guy is TNT (Ray). TNT wants to tear down Frontier Ranch and build a firework tent. Chevy and Ford are trying to save Frontier. There is more, but I couldn't fit it all on my camera.

The guys in red are Josh and Ray. They are "Baby and Baby", baby rappers. Thier story is that famous rappers babysat for them and they stole their raps. There are three skits and this is the last one. Blake has been the straight guy who tells them they are crazy, but this time he does a rap to Eminem's song "Lose Yourself". He talks about moving to a big boy bed. At the end of the skit, the assigned team babies come out. Brayden is the one on the left in the red pajamas. He start rockin to the music.

This clip on the right is Brayden and Benjamin wrestling in the bed. We went to get Brayden up and they played in the bed for a while. It was so cute.