Sage strutting herself

Fun summer times with Sage

Summer has been fun but very different for the Connelly's now that we have a kid in the picture. No more meeting at 5 am at the Morrison park-n-ride to go climb a fourteener or heading off into the pristine wildnerness areas for a 3 night backpack trip. Now it's city hanging, tourist attraction doing and car camping! None the less, our little Sage is definitely an outdoors Colorado chick!

We headed to Glenwood springs for some easy biking with the Brzak grandparents. Sage loved chilling in her Burley while mommy pulled her along the Colorado river. Here's proud Grandpa over the river. We only got rained on once, and Sage never even noticed the difference.

We took Sage camping over July 4th with the Anderson's. Lake Granby was the destination(close to home in case anything happened). Suffice to say, camping in the rain with a child learning to crawl and sleeping in a 3 person tent with 2 adults, 1 child, and 2 wet dogs wasn't the most pleasant experience, but we made the most of it. (Thank heavens for people who camp with trailors!)

By making the most of it, I mean we still did our outdoor adventure it was just in a blow up Kayak that I bought at a garage sale for $25.00 Of course we oared in circles since the oars that came with it weren't the best. We lasted for about 30min and without any fighting!

Even hiking was manageable with Sage. She likes to backpack with us but we are limited to 2 hr hikes. So Drew, Emmy and Kei joined up for a hike up Sol Vista. We half cheated by taking the chairlift up. We didn't hike as much as I would like to, but that was Sage's parents' fault, not hers. The summer seemed to fly by and with me starting work again in broomfield, we just didn't seem to have time.

Of course, daddy still golfed a little, and Sage was invited for his first time out. She loved hanging out with mom and G Ma B in the golf cart. We had beautiful weather so Sage got to do what she loves best-walk and talk in the gorgeous outdoors.
All in All, summer was fun, interesting and new presented a new challenge/chapter in the Connelly's lives.