Amelie is 5

At 5, Amelie is a mini-Kendall. She's strong and sassy and stubborn and exactly what I'd want a little girl to be. She loves her babies and animals, and plans to have somewhere between 2 and 8 babies when she grows up named Lucy, Lily, Julia, and... I forget the rest. She has a big imagination, loves being outside, and does not like taking lessons because she hates being told what to do.  She loves rocks and dinosaurs, and is a little hoarder with a room overflowing with stuff. She's a mini-fashionista who dresses herself in the vein of Fancy Nancy.  She loves her family and friends and plans her birthday parties a year in advance with a running invitation tally in her head. Her besties are Reese and Olivia.

Daddy got her a tire swing for her birthday

Finding fossils

Riley, Olivia, & Amelie getting ready to zipline

Jac, Logan, & Axel trying out the tire swing

Amelie & Olivia are 3 days apart

Andrew & Maddie's new baby Gnarley

Ama & Grandma Z.  

Dolomites

We'd been dreaming of going to the Dolomites for years. We finally made it this spring, and it definitely lived up to our expectations.

We stopped in Venice for a day on our way in and took a gondola ride. Venice was gorgeous but much more crowded than I remembered. 

Our first via ferrata

We had a longer approach hike than expected due to some mis-navigation by Google maps (they wanted us to drive up a ski slope), but we made it to the top

Mini alpinists

Lake Sopris. The long hike in was well worth it.

Playgrounds with dramatic backdrops

Hiking to the crag

Logan receiving instruction on how to photograph daddy

Swings

More via ferratas

Headed down from the crag

Picnicing

Tre Cime

At the hut below Tre Cime

The Tre Cime via ferrata took us through WWI tunnels

Cinque Torri

Cinque Torri

WWI trenches around Cinque Torri

Via ferratas!

Very well signed hiking trails

We stopped in Paris on our way home and raced sailboats at the Luxembourg Gardens