We got back this past weekend from 2 weeks of fun in Colorado. We spent most of the time at my parents house with lots of time for eating out and shopping. Some of the highlights of the trip were seeing some of my good friends from high school, college and after. Our last weekend we drove to see some friends in Grand Junction before heading back to Alamogordo. We had a great time with our friends, but our drive home was something else!!! Thankfully my parents had offered to keep Kacy while we went to Grand Junction and then brought her to our house in Alamo. for us on their way to AZ. It was a long 13.5 hour drive with 1 child I can't imagine with the two.
We loaded Dathan in his PJ's at 5:30am. Good thing we got an early start not knowing it would take us 13.5 hours.
We were so lucky to see the Durango-Silverton steam engine running alongside the road. We stopped and opened the door so Dathan could get a good look. It the highlight of his trip.
We knew there might be a little snow, but I had trusted that there would be snow plows out taking care of the road. We saw a whopping 1 snow plow during our 3 hours of driving less than 30 mph going over 3 passes. Chad did an amazing job driving, but I couldn't help but be stressed and "white knuckling" it all the way. It didn't help to see signs saying "chains required" when we did not have them. Praise God we made it home safely!
Here's Dathan after 12.5 hours in the car. On top of snow delays we got stuck in a traffic jam south of Albuquerque for 45 min. It was an inconvenience to us but most likely life changing for the poor individuals in the accident. I was not annoyed to be stopped in traffic, just thankful that God put us a few short minutes/seconds behind the car that had the accident and not with it. Back to Dathan....in this picture he has been snacking on raisins and craisins when he tells me "raisin in nose". Sure enough our first experience with our child sticking something up his nose is after we have spent all day in the car and still have an hour to get home. After trying and trying we finally got him to blow it out into a tissue. What a relief!
We were so lucky to see the Durango-Silverton steam engine running alongside the road. We stopped and opened the door so Dathan could get a good look. It the highlight of his trip.
We knew there might be a little snow, but I had trusted that there would be snow plows out taking care of the road. We saw a whopping 1 snow plow during our 3 hours of driving less than 30 mph going over 3 passes. Chad did an amazing job driving, but I couldn't help but be stressed and "white knuckling" it all the way. It didn't help to see signs saying "chains required" when we did not have them. Praise God we made it home safely!Here's Dathan after 12.5 hours in the car. On top of snow delays we got stuck in a traffic jam south of Albuquerque for 45 min. It was an inconvenience to us but most likely life changing for the poor individuals in the accident. I was not annoyed to be stopped in traffic, just thankful that God put us a few short minutes/seconds behind the car that had the accident and not with it. Back to Dathan....in this picture he has been snacking on raisins and craisins when he tells me "raisin in nose". Sure enough our first experience with our child sticking something up his nose is after we have spent all day in the car and still have an hour to get home. After trying and trying we finally got him to blow it out into a tissue. What a relief!
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