At Home in the Mountains

Here it is finally! I just got through an exhausting week of VBS after getting back from vacation. Maddy went to spend the night with Bethany last night and I slept like I was in a coma (Maddy is definitely the child who wakes us up at night...now we know for sure) so this morning I am finding a bit of time to complete another post. After the family reunion, we flew to Minneapolis for our first ever AMC conference. We were excited and nervous about how it was going to go. Basically hoping that we hadn't paid a lot of money for nothing. At least that was what I was thinking. Maddy was super excited to go to "her" conference as she called it. We got to Minneapolis about 8:30 in the evening. We rented a car and by the time we got to the hotel it was after 9. It was still light outside! We hadn't eaten anything and the kids were exhausted so we ended up ordering soup and salad through room service. It was a bit pricy but the price I'd expected from the menu was no...

Where to start? We flew out of Dallas, into Denver on Tuesday, June 24th to start our long 3 week vacation. Our agenda was to go to the family reunion, spend a couple of days with may family, go to Minneapolis for the AMC convention, and then go to see Aaron's family, then back to Colorado Springs and on to Denver to catch our plane back home. We got into Denver with no problems. The kids behaved relatively well on the plane. Kelsay didn't like the take off or the landing. Don't blame her. Those are the parts I hate the most too. Actually I hate flying. It's faster, but once you are on the plane you are stuck. No way to stop and take a break till your done. Gets a little claustrophobic for me, but I am glad that our usual 2 day 15ish hour drive was cut down to 2 hours on the plane. We found fantastic ticket deals so driving and flying were about the same price. So why not fly the  friendly skies? We spent Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday at Granna and Grandad's h...