The Campanellis: September 2013

Videos:

Downtown Evergreen flood 2013

Ella giving Gordon a dance lesson

Playing dentist

Timber wolf at the Minocqua, WI zoo

Minnehaha surrey ride

Hiking at Three Sisters park in Evergreen, CO

Ella "mountain" biking, it did get more mountainous and she did great!

Denver Museum of Nature & Science

Gordon slept on 1 of the 4 flights ; )

Visiting Niagara Falls with Uncle John and Gigi

We went on the Maid of the Mist

Gigi and Ella

Mark, Uncle John, Mary lou (Gigi)

It could not have been a more beautiful day!

Getting soaked on the Maid of the Mist

Gordon was a grumpy pants for 92% of the trip

Jeff and Meaghan's post wedding celebration in East Aurora, NY! Best wedding EVER!!!! Guests were welcome to camp on the property where the party was held, of course we were in for that! Jeff & Mark went to college at the University of Rochester together. I feel very fortunate to have made so many great friends through Mark. We really have a blast when we get together.

East Aurora, NY

I LOVE windmills!

The Groom!

Mark's college friends

The Bride in the yellow scarf

Judah petting Gordon's head

The food was amazing!

Gordon was making friends. I don't have many picture of Ella at the wedding because within 30 seconds of arriving she found 2 friends around her age and went off playing the entire evening and the next morning.

The U of R group

In the tree house

View from the tree house

Ella danced the night away in her PJ's

Super nice porta potty

The next morning we picked apples from the tree outside our tent to eat for breakfast.

Random left overs for the campers breakfast ; )

Visit with Grandpa Ben

Visiting Grandma Koch

My cousin Kristy and her boys, Brandon & Adam

Of course we had to see my aunt Shirley's garden, my dream garden!

The kids ate from the garden the whole time we were there

We met my cousin Travis' new baby boy, Leo! I was thrilled to hear they choose not to circumcise!

Leo's mama

Visiting Grandpa Gordon Koch's grave. Ella lined little pebbles on his headstone.

I was in heaven getting my haircut by my old stylist Ashlie!!! She is worth flying home for a haircut ; )

MACEY!! My friend Lisa's little girl Macey. Lisa is due next month with her second.

It was so fun to get our kids together.

Our kids have never been afraid of Jon, good instincts ; )

View from Lisa and Jon's house

At my grandparents home in Minocqua, WI

Eagles

Eagle's nest

Yay, Sarah and Neils came to visit!!!

Gordon stands like an old man so Mark is copying him ; )

Wildwood Wildlife Park

Sand thrower!

Attack of the Gordon monster

We were all freezing!

Auntie Lissa!!!! Melissa lives near uptown so we got to experience her glamorous city life ; ) Jeff lives a couple blocks from her.

Minnehaha falls, we rented the 4 person bike

Melissa keeping the dog close

Gordon took pictures when we got home. He loves our collection of sticks from our yard with lights! The kids were so happy to be home! Ella walked in the door and said, "home, sweet, home"! She has spent the whole afternoon singing about how happy she is to be home ; )

I see the sun!!!!

Beautiful clouds in the mountains

Downtown Evergreen flooding

Our home is on a high point in Evergreen so we are in the clear but downtown Evergreen is having some flooding.

We are so happy to be home! We heard elk bugling last night and this morning and even drove by a bull elk (at least 14 points) and he bugled right next to our car!