The Taylor's Colorado Blog

Wow, How Time Flies!

2010-05-11T13:51:00.002-06:00

I haven't done much on this site for a while. I know...bad, bad, bad. Well I've been working on a little project since Mother's Day, scanning all my dad's old slides. It is just not possible to enjoy them unless they are digital any more. So I thought I would post some so my Mom and Dad could see them.

Down by the River

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All of us down by the Arkansas River. You can take a train ride down to the river. Or there is another train that takes you through the entire gorge.

Arkansas River

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Looking down at the Arkansas River.

Royal Gorge Bridge

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This is the Royal Gorge Bridge. We walked across it and drove the car across it. When its windy it sways a bit. In case your wondering Gina did walk across it! (She's scared of heights).

Looking up at the Bridge

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This is the Royal Gorge Bridge as you look up from the bottom of the gorge.

RG Buffalo

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The Buffalo at the Royal Gorge Zoo

RG Elk

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The Giant Elk at the Royal Gorge.

Royal Gorge Clock

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World Famous Clock at the Royal Gorge. Its a water clock that is run by water.

Christmas Tree Kids

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Christmas Morning at the Taylor's House

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Kraig and Bailey on our deck.

Baby Robins 3

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Two have flown the coop (and now all are gone).

Baby Robins 2

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I don't know how they fit in the nest (watch the end).

Baby Robins

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Robins made a home under our deck.

All JoAnn and Errol's Grand Kids

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We are not huge but we are fun.

Zoo Boise

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Stacey's kids, mine and Nancy's hanging out at the zoo.

Boise Skyline

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Heading out of the Rose Garden.

The Rose Garden at Julia Davis Park, Boise

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My kids, Nancy's kids and my cousin Marissa's kids.

The Famous Lucky Peak Resevoir

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Add a little water

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Just playing around.

Lucky Peak State Park, Idaho

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It was a semi-warm day and we were the only ones at the beach!

On Golden Tom's Pond

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Mitch, Kraig and Jesse just paddling around.

More Wading

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It was a cool day but that didn't stop us.

At the Boise River

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Just wading around.

Church Office Building in the Background

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Thought this was a good pictures

Working Hard to Get There

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Pulling a handcart at the Church History Musuem.

View from the Hotel

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View from our balcony at the SLC Sheraton.

The Door Picture

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Picture of the kids at the SLC Temple doors.

Salt Lake City Hotel Balcony

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Kami, Gina, Kraig, Jesse, and Abby

Don't look now...

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Jim's in the shower on the cruise ship.

Barbados Gang

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Here is where we went snokeling on Barbados. Pictured is all of Jim's sisters and their spouses + us.

St. James Church

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This church was built in something like 1629 on Barbados!

Mr. Royal Carribean

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On our day at sea, this man was voted "Mr. Royal Carribean."

Serenade of the Seas

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Beautiful ship. Highly recommend Royal Carribean. Save your money and go on a cruise it is a lot of fun.

St Lucia's Pitons

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These twin mountain peaks were beautiful. We went swimming between them where there is a luxury hotel and beach.

Beautiful St. Lucia

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From left to right, Gloria (Jim's sister), LeIsle (Jim's mom), JoEllen (Jim's wife).

Antigua

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We went snokeling in the water below us. Fun, Fun, Fun. I'm not very good at snokeling, but Jim coaxed me along this time and I did pretty good. I did even better in Barbados!

St Marrten's

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Here's that blue water again. Ran in to some missionaries on St. Marrten's and one of them had been a companion to one of the Cornwall's from Westminster. Forgot to take their pictures though.

On a jeep on a barg in the Carribean

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Have you ever seen water that blue before?

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Here we are on St. John's island of the Virgin Islands. We drove on this island. St Thomas and St John are both American islands but they drive on the British side of the road with American cars...we kept yelling, "Deric your on the wrong side of the road!"

Puerto Rico

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Jim and I went on a cruise at the beginning of April with his sisters and parents. Here's me in Puerto Rico.

Injured Coyote

2008-03-10T18:40:00.002-06:00

This coyote showed up while we were sledding! You can sure hear them at night outside our house.

Gina & Kami on the Small Hill

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Gina is a little scared of the big hill. Jim grabbed her a took her down it once. You could here her screaming all the way down. She is getting to be not so afraid. But really liked the small hill

Jim on his Stomach

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This is Jim going down by himself on his stomach.

Tubing Cam

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This is the funniest of our tubing videos. Jim is holding the camera as he goes down the hill, while holding on to Kami.

3 Tubes

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This is Kraig, then Jim holding on to Kami's tube.

2 Tubes

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Well, we had a day of snow in Colorado. This is video that Gina took. Kraig, Jim and Kami are going down the mountain.

Christmas Card Picture

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Here's the real freezing version of our Christmas Card

Christmas Day

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Bailey and Kraig on Christmas Day

Christmas Day

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Kami has just been awakened on Christmas Day

Christmas Day

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Kami getting her gift from GrandmaClaus and GrandpaClaus.

Christmas Day

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I forgot to mention that we surprised Grandma and Grandpa Taylor. They did not know we were coming. We just showed up on their couches. At first Grandma didn't even realize we were there she looked at us several times and it didn't register.

A Cool Picture

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A cool pictures of Jim's nephews.

Huntington Beach Pier

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Beach

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Kraig had to build a fire for Webelos so we went down to HB to the fire pits and built a fire.

The Famous Hug

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Kami and Taylor love to hug each other.

The Silliness

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Oh to have cousins

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Until we meet again...

The Cousin Hugs

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Saying Good-bye...

Scenes From the Road

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We made a pit stop in Las Vegas and the sun was shining in through the back of the van hitting Kraig's ears and making them glow. We were laughing so hard. Kraig thought it was funny too. The picture doesn't do his glowing ears justice. But you might get the point.

Scenes From the Road

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ZZZZZZZ,ZZZZZZZZ!

Scenes From the Road

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Oh the excitement of road tripping.

Scenes From the Road

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More Utah "Castle Country" is what I called it.

Scenes From the Road

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Icy River in Colorado.

Scenes From the Road

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We thought this would be and interesting stop.

Scenes From the Road

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On the Border of Colorado and Utah.

Scenes From the Road

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Want to go skiing? Here's a bunch of ski runs. I think it is Copper Mountain.

Scenes From the Road

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We are traveling through the Vail Pass here. It was closed the previous day (New Years Eve) so we had to spend the night in a town called Fruita, CO right next to Grand Junction.

Are you ready to go?

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Gina & Kraig goofing around, not ready to go.

One Kid Ready to Roll

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Kami's ready to leave for California. We spent the night in Mesquite, NV. She is wearing her "Chowder" hat that Grandma Genta made her

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It was a cold drive returning from California. Kraig's water from Wendy's froze over night!

Winter Wonderland

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Looking out the window at Kraig's friend's cabin.

Estes Park Christmas Parade

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Here's a little video of the Estes Park Christmas Parade. We did not make it through the entire parade My toes were numb! Stacey, I doubt it but is your sister in this video?

Kami Before & After

2007-11-26T14:44:00.000-07:00

Here's something I haven't tried - video. Please look in the lower right had corner for Kami at the beginning. See how much her swimming has improved! You can hear me laughing at the beginning. Sorry, but she is just so cute!

The Real Santa Claus likes McDonald's

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We beat the crowd on a very cold night and found Santa at McDonald's

The Real Santa Claus lives in Estes Park

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Santa was a treat for a very cold night!

Estes Ark

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We found this cute store in Estes Park. It is a stuffed animal zoo. It has everything you can think of in a stuffed animal. Yes, we got Gina out of there without buying a thing. A Christmas Miracle!

Estes Park, Gateway to the Rocky Mtn National Park

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Great little city. We also heard stars like to hang out here when they come to CO.

Pretty Frozen River

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Frozen River, Estes Park

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It was a cold but sunny day in Estes Park.

Citizens of Estes Park, CO

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BYU Women's Soccer

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One day we drove to Laramie, WY to watch Jim's cousin Erica Woodbury play goalie for BYU Women's Soccer. We had a great time and the Cougars beat WY 1-0!

Kami's enjoying swimming lessions

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Kami always volunteers to be first.

Kami on her back

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Cool swimming barbells !

Kami at Swimming Lessons

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Kami doing great at swimming

Trick or Treat?

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We had a great time trick or treating in CO. We had over 50 trick or treaters at our house in 45 minutes and the street was full of people.

Halloween

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Just a few trick or treaters. Kami is a witch, Gina is a geisha girl and Kraig is Anakin.

The one with Kami in it.

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Family fun in the cold.

Top of the Back Yard

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King of the hill.

Leaning Snowman

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Leaning tower of a snowman.

Ta Da!

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Queen of the snow hill.

Snowman and Friends

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Here's the builders of Mr. Snowman. Kami had given up and gone inside to warm up. It was a great day for playing!

Once there was a Snowman!

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Here's our first attempt at a snowman. Pretty good Huh! Bet you So Cal people our jealous!

Hi from COLORADO

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It began snowing at 8 am this morning and continued until about 1:30 pm.

Back yard again

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This is what our back yard looks like in snow.

Its really coming down

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Everyone here has told us that it usually snows once before Halloween.

The front yard

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You wouldn't believe that yesterday was in the 70s!!!!!

Looking out towards the mountains

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This is our beautiful view from our deck.

Cleaning up the deck

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Oh what fun a day in the snow is. Will it be as fun tomorrow?

Snow on the deck rail

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The news said only 1 to 3 inches....not 6 inches

Our rose bushes

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They were still so beautiful yesterday.