Skip to main content

Western Slope/ End of Vacation

 Well, as usual, all my pics loaded up backwards again. This is a couple weeks after we got home. We decided to start Kelsay on solid food. Maddy gave her her first bite. It was carrots. She's not really a carrot fan. I don't know if it was the carrots or the gag reflex from Maddy shoving the food in. We tried prunes later. She was a big fan of those, just like her big sister.
 Identical prune babies! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

 After we got back from Minnesota, we went to see Aaron's family. The pic above is the night before we went home when we were back in Colorado Springs. Maddy was showing where she'd been in Colorado.
 This was at the end of the trip as well. We spent the night at the ranch. Maddy loved feeding the chickens and gathering eggs. She also helped Aaron cut thistles to dry out and burn. She had a great time working.
 On our way back over from the Western slope we stopped at Glenwood Springs to go swimming. Both girls had a great time. However, we ended up having a kind of crazy episode when a lady standing next to us on the side of the pool slipped and fell on Maddy. She mostly fell on the wall so it was really just enough of a bump to scare everyone but it was traumatic for Kelsay because it woke her up from her nap. We ended up having to leave because she would not stop screaming til we left the pool area.

 We had a fun time with Aaron's family. We had several relaxing days in Montrose. Maddy had a great time hanging out with Grams and Grandma Kim. She loved playing with Ziggy and Gracie (the dogs).
 On Friday we went hiking up on the Grand Mesa with the Bavors. Such a fun day. We didn't get much hiking done with all the kids but it was beautiful. I saw these albino Indian Paintbrush. At leat I think that is what they were.

 We went to the park in Delta and had a picnic. That was a lot of fun too.




Comments

bee said…
Always love the blogs. If I have been involved at all with your activities, it brings back great memories. Fun times!
August 19, 2014 at 9:13 PM
Anonymous said…
I love the pic of Maddy jumping off Aaron's shoulders- great pic!
brittany
August 20, 2014 at 1:49 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Getaway to Ticks Bend....I Mean Beavers Bend State Park

 Back in April, we decided we needed to do a short family getaway after the semester was over. The last time we'd been on vacation just to vacation (not going to see family in CO) was when we went to San Antonio when Maddy was 3 months old. We found Beavers Bend State Park close to Broken Bow, OK and decided to go there. We booked a cabin in the state park and eagerly awaited the day we could take off for our getaway. We left on Sunday afternoon and stayed through Tuesday afternoon. It was short, but so fun and relaxing. We had no computer and no cell phones while we were up there. We just got to enjoy being around each other and the beautiful scenery.  We built a fire and roasted some marshmallows. Also popped some jiffy pop. Aaron had never done one of those before.  This is a 100 year old cabin they had at the visitor center. I like the mud chinking ( I think that's what it's called). A couple named Comma and Mabel lived in the cabin when the CCC was building the
4 comments
Read more

Another Sonogram

We went to the high risk pregnancy doc today for another sonogram. This time he could see all four chambers of the heart, the pulmonary valve, etc. In his words it looked "dramatically better". He feels there is still some slight compression on the heart and that we need to continue watching it. As of now he cannot see anything that is causing it and the MRI did not see anything either. He also felt that the hands were okay. They are not clenched fists at least as he first thought, meaning that the fingers aren't overlapping each other. Her hands are still in fists and she won't open them but he said he has had other babies that have not opened their fist in the sonogram but the hands have been normal at birth, so we still have a lot of hope for those little hands. He was able to get a better look at the face today, no cleft palate, so that is a huge blessing. The feet are still concerning. They are definitely clubbed but she is also not moving them. She is moving her
10 comments
Read more

One Year Ago Today

One year ago today we found out we were having a little girl. One year ago today, the OB called us into his office and told us that Maddy was not going to survive. One year ago today God heard the prayers of many friends and family and he started working a miracle. One year ago today I thought I would never see my precious little girl alive. One year ago today I was so shocked I didn't and couldn't feel anything but disbelief. One year ago today, God started planning that today a little girl named Madeline Mae Fletcher would be by my side as I write this, talking and playing with her stuffed cow that Aunt Tammy gave her. One year ago today God set out to prove that he is faithful and he hears his people's prayers and that he still does miracles. Today is bittersweet because one year ago today our dreams and plans we had for our new life with our baby girl were destroyed. But one year ago today God started making a new plan to give us a different dream and a different plan.
10 comments
Read more