The whole reason we ventured to Leadville was because Charlie has wanted to visit the town to see the highest airport in North America, the third highest in the world, ever since we lived in Dallas. He has been "flying" out of Leadville's airport on the flight simulator with students for about 10 years and was super excited to see it in person with his own kids. This is a picture of Paris in front of the only runway the airport has. You can clearly see the Rockies to the west of the runway strip. The town sits at 10, 200 feet elevation and look how big the Rockies still look behind Paris!
Paris is holding Colorado's state flower, a columbine.
Loving the color and texture of this doorway Sarah is standing in.
She is oh so grown-up now in many ways...her forever drawings of families of people, HUGE families of people, have varied slightly in the past few weeks to include more and more fashion statements in terms of the individual family member's attire. She still has drawings of huge families, but she also includes fashion designs that she has created for them to wear.
Sarah is dreaming of teaching art (and music and dance) to children in Africa. She says she wants to go to art college and maybe study fashion design, too.
Sarah would like to play on a more competitive soccer team.
Paris would like to play violin and is interested in taking music lessons this year. She would still love to take riding lessons if given the opportunity.
Paris is such a sweet girl who plays well with all her siblings.
She can fight well with them, too. :)
Of course, Paris was thrilled with her teacher's selection of a pink tutu for her class' ballet dance.
She looked adorable and those missing front teeth could not be cuter!
So fun that she had sooo many friends in her Tuesday morning dance class.
Her siblings and those of her friends always went to the library in Chuckwagon during Paris' hour long dance class. After class, everyone piled in to eat a picnic lunch at the park and have fun with friends outside before heading home for schoolwork. All the families looked forward to our dance/library/park day together on Tuesday mornings. What a fun routine we had on Tuesdays this past school year!
