Little wonders....

Have you ever heard "Little Wonders " by Rob Thomas? if not just go to the bottom of my blog and you will find it on my play list. This song seems to fit the day we had up at Rifle Falls. That morning, as rick left for work he asked what our plans were for the day. Seeing how school was out for the day. I told him we would be cleaning and i had calls to make and who knows what the day would bring. Well that doesn't sound fun he says, as he heads out the door to go to work. So while taking Sydney to school i started to think he was right. Kylie and Tanner and i headed to Mc D's for lunch then we went home to finish cleaning while we waited for Sydney's school to be done. When we picked up Sydney, we stopped at the house and picked up our snow boots and hats and gloves and headed up to rifle falls to see if the falls were still frozen. As you can see from the pictures it wasn't ...Dang! but there was still chunks of ice behind the falls so it was still kinda frozen.


The kids wanted a funny face picture, but I'm not sure what Sydney considers a funny face. Tanner and Kylie sure do.

The closer you got to the falls you could feel the mist ( boy, was it cold). You could see how it would make the snow on the trees freeze. It looked like a winter corn dog - snow on a stick and it was hard as a rock, but it sure was pretty.

I had to get a picture of the fallen winter corn dogs( i don't know what you would call them.. sorry) they were all over the ground in front of the falls.

You can hike around the falls up to the caves and beyond to the trails. Sydney wanted to be our leader so she found a cat tail and away we went.

Look close at this snow. (its probably hard to see) It looked like jagged glass and when you looked up close it was snowflakes that had froze and you could see their shapes up close. It was truly beautiful. we found huge sections of snow like this on the trail behind the falls.

its kinda hard to see their shapes in this picture. Tanner says that they look like crystal Christmas trees. they were way cool

on our way home we saw 2 bald eagles and a few deer, But our highlight was when we came up to where the golf course is. We saw a huge herd of elk, it seemed like there was about 75 (or more) They were all over the golf course so it was hard to get one big happy family picture of them...:)


We had such a great time, they keep asking when are we going up again. We have been up there in the fall and the winter and in summer, so i am thinking spring will be next.