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!
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| Our little home away from home. |
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| The view of the lake |
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The view from our back porch
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| Josh and Tom on the slopes |
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| We spent the afternoon at the park |
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| Ryan is a little scared of slides - unless mommy goes with him, then he has a blast! |
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| Grandma and Ryan at the playground |
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| Ready for the wildlife park |
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| Watching the bear at lunch time |
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His favorite part, by far, was chasing the wild turkey's around the yard
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| This is the first picture of them sitting next to each other! |
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| The drive home, he was so tired but he had so much fun! |
