Mini-Trip to Pagosa Springs

Wow! I’ve been meaning to write this post for about 2 weeks now. I don’t even know where my time goes except that I’m beginning to think there is never a “non-busy” time when you have little ones!  A couple of weeks ago Josh’s mom and stepdad had the opportunity to visit us for about a week. We were pretty excited about this trip since we haven’t seen them since Christmas last year (2012). While they were here, we took a mini-trip to Pagosa Springs so Josh and Tom could spend some time snowboarding/skiing. Pagosa Springs is supposed to get a lot of snow so we prepared for cold weather – it turned out to be 50 all week. This was a little disappointing for Josh since he wanted it to be cold with lots of snow, but it was great for Cheryl and me to walk around downtown and take Ryan outside to play.

Our trip had a little bit of a rough start when Ryan woke up on day one with a fever of 103. The last time this happened his fever lasted days and I was so worried our whole trip would be spent inside with a sick baby. The Lord was gracious however and Ryan’s fever broke the next day and we were able to enjoy the rest of our trip. (It turns out that fever was the beginning of an ear infection. His fever came back last week and we went to the dr. to get meds. )

We rented a little lakeside condo for the week, which was nice so the kids could be a little louder than if we had been in a hotel. We kept it low key for Saturday and Sunday so Ryan could get better, and then Monday we took him to a wildlife park in the area so he could see some of the animals. On Tuesday we took turns watching Ryan and Kayla so we could all get massages and spend some time relaxing and then we went shopping around downtown to some of the little antique stores.  Hopefully the pictures we took will tell a little more of the story!

Our little home away from home.

The view of the lake

The view from our back porch

Josh and Tom on the slopes

We spent the afternoon at the park

Ryan is a little scared of slides - unless mommy goes with him, then he has a blast!

Grandma and Ryan at the playground

Ready for the wildlife park

Watching the bear at lunch time

His favorite part, by far, was chasing the wild turkey's around the yard


 

This is the first picture of them sitting next to each other!

 

The drive home, he was so tired but he had so much fun!