Grandma’s birthday was our first full day in Iowa. She got a bike! We went for several bike rides with her & Zeek. 

Carlee, Clara & Isaac came over soon after. We really did not want to stop to get our picture taken. We just wanted to keep looking for frogs!

Wyatt & I got along really well this trip. Of course we had our moments, but we did really well. At some point we decided we needed to go get red solo cups to get the frogs. 

Can you see the little frog? They were itty bitty & were swimming all over. 

Hendrix was using a stick to try & move stuff around in the water. 

Hendrix & Marley were our first visitors. 

Zeek & Tristan taught me how to catch the baby frogs. I thought it would be a great idea to bring it back to the deck & show all the adults. I was very serious about this. I took very good care of my little frog & put him back in the water when I…

In Papa & Grandma’s backyard, under the bridge, we found all kinds of wildlife. We spent hours out there. There were literally hundreds of baby frogs hopping around. If we walked along the edge of the creek, it looked like the ground came alive. They were so cute! There were also tons of tadpoles, crawdads,…

About 24 hours later, we arrived in Iowa. It was a long drive. We did it in one day & fortunately, had beautiful weather. We got off to a late start & hit rush hour traffic leaving Denver, had trouble with the bikes on the rack & saw a horrible motorcycle accident. Once we got…

We stopped to play on the pirate ship several times. This bottom picture is another photo of our view from the top of Vail Mountain for lunch.