On the Road Again........

As most of you know...we left for a vacation in Utah last Thursday. We piled the kids in the RV and headed out. Our plan was to spread the trip out over several days because of my current very pregnant condition and to be able to enjoy the scenery along the way.
To begin our vacation we noticed that Faith had a bunch of small tiny blisters on her feet and hands...and you guessed it...in her mouth. We confirmed with her pediatrician that it was in fact Hand,Foot and Mouth Disease. This virus is very contagious and the advice was to keep her isolated from not only the other children but, her pregnant Mother........sure!! We loaded in the RV the next day and hoped for the best. Before we got out of Plano...Hunter started complaining of a huge blister in his mouth. Sure enough...he had gotten it. The next couple days were painful for Hunter but....he muddled through. Faith began to heal and we have seen no signs of the other children getting it.

Fist stop: Amarillo! We rolled into Amarillo about midnight, Hunter and I and Faith stayed in a hotel while Bo and the boys headed to there "hook-ups" in the nearest RV Park. Sound awful? Not in the book of these little boys....being able to sleep in the RV or as Bo and the boys call it...."the big pig" is a dream come true. It is a little frightening how quickly Chandler can familiarize himself with any new RV park. He likes to make sure he knows all the in's and out's and loves when Bo gives him a job to do. The next few days would bring many exciting new jobs for Chandler.

The next day we drove to Colorado Springs. We went to a place called Seven Falls where between the combination of the altitude and the climbing I was pretty sure what was falling was my baby...right out! The kids liked it...the parents thought it was exhausting and it ended with a most satisfying shopping spree in the gift shop! Chandler is quite the souvenir shopper...if there is a gift shop within a 20 mile radius...he is there and begging us for all the things he has always wanted. This particular gift shop had a huge diamond that looked like a paper weight but, they had labeled it "precious crystal diamond" .....needless to say...Chandler was sold! We tried to explain to the children to pace themselves in the souvenir spending department because we had not even begun our 9 day vacation. It took alot of working on Chandler to convince him that the $17.99 glass diamond was not in fact a precious crystal but, we eventually did and he settled for a $5.99 blue rock that was actually pretty cool. Weston got a piece of gold, Faith got a turtle made out of rock and Hunter decided to tally his spending or savings rather and settled for a postcard! Smart kid!


Onto the Royal Gorge........we splurged for the breath taking train ride through the Royal Gorge to minimize my walking and spent two hours on a train riding through the Gorge. It was beautiful and definitely something to see...I just think the kids would have been alot happier experiencing it outdoors rather than from a train car. Most of the train ride was spent talking about why we would skip the Canon City Prison Museum and ...that's right...Chandler saw there was a Prison Gift Shop that was calling his name. This truly confirmed the child could find something...ANYWHERE! However, after Bo and I looked through the Prison Museum brochure and saw that it showed a real gas chamber that was advertised as "you can even enter and sit in the chair" ewww....is that appealing to anyone? We didn't think so....and so we stood firm in skipping the museum. The boys were most disappointed!





After the Royal Gorge we decided that we should shave some hours off the rest of our trip so we drove to Breckenridge and decided against spending the night because Bo thought I was having difficulty breathing. So off we went. We had a beautiful drive through Colorado and ended up in Grand Junction. Hunter, Weston, Faith and I checked into a hotel and once again....Bo and Chandler were headed to the RV park. The next morning as the RV rounded the Doubletree parking lot...I could already see the enormous smile across little Chandler's face as he sat right up front beside Bo. Chandler was thrilled to share with us that he and Bo had stayed up late and watched a horse jockey documentary movie and before they came to pick us up he got to "dump" all by himself. Days just don't get much better than that for Chandler. Oh, the simple pleasures. You see why things like this scare me???

Our journey today would end us at our final destination...Park City, Utah. We will be spending the next week Bo's brother James, Sarah, Alex, Drew and Alex's fiance...Robert! We are very excited to begin our vacation with them.

We did arrive and the house and city are absolutely amazing. Here are some photos!
I will post soon and update you on our vacation!


Love to all,
J